Waati ( Time ) is a film of the relisator Malian Souleymane Cissé left in 1995.

Synopsis

In South Africa, a teenager, Nandi, grow exploited in the middle of the brimades made with the Blacks. One day, a police officer kills his father. Terrorized, she flees. She manages to cross the border and of the nomads adopt it. She arrives in a country where she can make studies of Ethnologie.

She collects small orphan, and decides to return to South Africa. But she will be again confronted there with the Racisme.

Data sheet

• Scenario: Souleymane Cissé
• Produces by Xavier Castano
• Original music: Bruno Coulais
• Image: Jean-Jacques Bouhon, Vincenzo Marano, Georgi Rerberg
• Decorator of plate: Victor Botha
• Lasted: 140 minutes
• Country: France/Mali/Burkina Faso
• Language: Bambara
• Color: Color

Distribution

• Sidi Yaya Cissé : Solofa
• Mariame Amerou Mohamed Dicko: Nandi at 6 years
• Balla Foamed Keita: the professor
• Vusi Kunene
• Martin the Master
• Eric Miyeni: the father
• Nakedi Ribane: the mother
• Adam Pink: the police officer assassin
• Niamanto Sanogo: the prophet rasta
• Linèo Tsolo: Nandi
• Mary Twala : the grnd-mother

Distinction

Nomination

• Nomination for the Palm of gold to the Cannes festival in 1995.

External bonds

• Card Imdb
• '' Waati '' selection of Cannes
• '' Waati, a political and cultural work
• '' Waati '' on Cinémotions
Photo
• of the film

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