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.
Filmografie
Black Tea2024
Al Zubarah (short)2019
Life in AI Barr (short)2019
Timbuktu2014
Je vous souhaite la pluie (TV short)2010
Stories on Human Rights (segment)2008
8 (segment)2008
Bamako2006
Waiting for Happiness2002
2000 vu par … Une collection internationale (TV series)1998
