Film Maker in Focus: Abderrahmane Sissako
Overview of films
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Heremakono
Poetic observations in a small town on the coast of Mauretania, a transit haven where people wait for happiness. At the intersection of uprooting,
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Octobre
Sissako’s second tells the story of the doomed relationship between a young Russian woman and an African student who lives temporarily in Moscow. T
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Africa Dreaming
Two men who have shared a love for chess since their youth are driven apart by two women.
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Rostov-Luanda
Travelogue by Sissako who sets off in Angola looking for the resistance fighter Baribanga, with whom he made an unforgettable train journey in Russ
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Bamako
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 the IMF
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Dry Season
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 l
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La vie sur terre
Improvised yet visually stunning film is a musical and poetic millennium sketch of a poor African village.