Film Maker in Focus: Abderrahmane Sissako
Overview of films
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Africa Dreaming
Abderrahmane Sissako | 26' | South Africa | -
Two men who have shared a love for chess since their youth are driven apart by two women. -
Bamako
Abderrahmane Sissako | 115' | France | None
In the back garden of the communal dwelling in a poor district of Bamako, Mali, a people’s tribunal is set up to lay charges against… -
Dry Season
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | 90' | Austria | None
When the government of Chad releases all the war criminals from the Civil War that scourged the country from 1965, the 15-year-old Atim takes the… -
Heremakono
Abderrahmane Sissako | 96' | France | None
Poetic observations in a small town on the coast of Mauretania, a transit haven where people wait for happiness. At the intersection of uprooting, mel -
Octobre
Abderrahmane Sissako | 36' | France | None
Sissako’s second tells the story of the doomed relationship between a young Russian woman and an African student who lives temporarily in Moscow. The -
Rostov-Luanda
Abderrahmane Sissako | 59' | Angola | -
Travelogue by Sissako who sets off in Angola looking for the resistance fighter Baribanga, with whom he made an unforgettable train journey in Russia -
La vie sur terre
Abderrahmane Sissako | 61' | France | None
Improvised yet visually stunning film is a musical and poetic millennium sketch of a poor African village.