Abderrahmane Sissako (also credited in scene Dramane Sissako ), born the October 13rd 1961 with Kiffa in Mauritania, is a Cinéaste Mauritania N. He is also producer.

The main theme of its work is the exile, displacement. It paints the Africa with autobiographical keys.

Biography

Little time after its birth, its family emigrates with Bamako with the Mali, the country of his/her father, where it follows part of his primary and secondary studies. After a short return in 1980 in Mauritania, country of his/her mother, it leaves in Soviet Union, with Moscow, where it studies the cinema with VGIK (federal Institute of State of the Cinema) of 1983 to 1989.

With the beginning of the year 1990, Abderrahmane Sissako settles in France. He is president of the jury of the festival Foregrounds of Angers in January 2007 and member of the jury of the feature films to the Cannes festival 2007.

He is today the African scenario writer best criticized and more preceded.

Catalog of films

• 1989 : the Play (35 mm, 23 minutes), work of end of studies. Located in the desert Mauritanian and turned to the Turkménistan.
• 1993: October (35 mm, 37 minutes), Price a Certain Glance with the Cannes festival.
• 1995: the floating camel and sticks (video, 6 minutes) according to Jean of the Fountain. Adaptation turned to Mauritania.
• 1996: Sabriya (video, 26 minutes), in the collection initiated by Arte, African Dreaming . The action is located in Tunisia.
• 1997: Rostov-Luanda (video, documentary 59 minutes. Within the framework of X Kassel Documented). On a former guerilla of the war for the release of the Angola, that Abderrahmane Sissako had met sixteen years earlier, in Moscow.
• 1998: Life on ground (35 mm, 67 minutes) (Special mention of the jury to 16th FESPACO in 1999), turned in Mali in the village of his/her father.
• 2002: Heremakono (While waiting for happiness) (35 mm, 90 minutes) (Great standard costs of Yenenga to 18th FESPACO in 2003), inspired with the scenario writer by his short return in Mauritania in 1980.
• 2006: Bamako , Grand Prix of the Public of the Meetings of the Festival Paris Cinema, song of film interpreted by Oumou Sangaré

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