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Abderrahmane Sissako

Mauritania director

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Biography

Abderrahmane Sissako is a Mauritian-born Malian film director and producer known for films which explore globalization and displacement. He studied cinema at the Federal State Film Institute in Moscow and in the 1990s settled in France. His first feature-length film, Waiting for Happiness (2002) won a FIPRESCI Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. His features Bamako (2006) and Timbuktu (2014) were widely acclaimed, with the latter selected to compete for the Palme d’Or and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Filmography

Black Tea 2024
Al Zubarah (short) 2019
Life in AI Barr (short) 2019
Timbuktu 2014
Je vous souhaite la pluie (TV short) 2010
Stories on Human Rights (segment) 2008
8 (segment) 2008
Bamako 2006
Waiting for Happiness 2002
2000 vu par … Une collection internationale (TV series) 1998
La case de l’oncle Doc (TV series) 1998
Life on Earth 1998
Africa Dreaming (TV series) 1997
Rostov-Luanda (documentary) 1997
Documenta X - Die Filme (documentary) 1997
Oktyabar (short) 1993
The Game (short) 1991