Abderrahmane Sissako Director

Director
Born on October 13, 1961 in Mauritania

Born in Mauritania but brought up in Mali and trained in filmmaking in the Soviet Union – at the Moscow VGIK – Abderrahmane Sissako crosses cultures and continents. His work is suffused with humanism and social consciousness and explores the complex relations between North and South as well as the fate of a much-beleaguered Africa.

The Game, directed by Sissako during his final year at Film School, was presented at La Semaine de la Critique in 1991, followed two years later by the medium-length Octobre, at Un Certain Regard. Life on Earth and Waiting for Happiness, both featured in the Directors’ Fortnight in 1998 and Un Certain Regard in 2002, thus firmly establishing the director on the international scene.
Bamako, a political parable caught between anger and utopianism, presented Out of Competition in 2006, was followed by Timbuktu in Competition in 2014. This vibrant fictional protest against religious fundamentalism was the first Mauritanian work to be nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.

Filmography Abderrahmane Sissako

 Timbuktu (Director y Guionista) – Festival de Cannes dans la sélection officielle – 2014
Stars : Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri y Toulou Kiki
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the inhabitants suffer, powerless,
8  (Director y Writer ) – 2008
Stars : Jan Kounen, Gaspar Noé, Jane Campion
Bamako (Director y Writer ) – 2008
Stars :  Aïssa Maïga , Tiecoura Traoré , Hélène Diarra
Melé is a bar singer, Chaka, her husband, is without work. Their relationship is on the rocks. A court has been set up in the courtyard of the house they share with other families. Representatives from African society have brought…
Waiting for happiness(Director) – 2002
Stars :   Khatra Ould Abdel Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed.
Nouadhibou is a small town attached to a peninsula on the Mauritanian coast. Abdallah joins his mother there while waiting for his departure for Europe. The young man doesn’t understand the language of this place of exile and…
 Life on Earth (Director y Writer ) – 1997
Stars : Abderrahmane Sissako, Nana Baby, Mohamed Sissako
Just before the year 2000, Abderrahmane Sissako, a Mauritanian filmmaker living in France, decides to return to Sokolo, a small village in Mali, to touch base with his father. “Dear Father, you’ll be a little surprised, perhaps even worried, to receive this letter from me. Let me tell you right away that everything is fine and I hope that the same goes for you.

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