Souleymane Cissé Movies

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

Two Malian teenagers, Bah and Batrou, from different backgrounds, meet at secondary school. Bah is the descendent of a great tribal chieftain....

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. The film also sketches the social/economic...

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local...

"Cinq jours d’une vie" is about a young man, N'Tji, orphaned at an early age, who lives under the supervision of his uncle. He is sent to...

A Westernized filmmaker, Issa, is a polygamist whose third wife Mimi is a doctor and high-profile health minister. Accustomed to a certain degree of...

Fatou Cissé accompanies her father, malien director Souleymane Cissé, through a trip down his film career, painting an intimate and...

A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The...

Bamako. Several women are illegally evicted from their home in 2008. Their brother, Souleymane Cissé, takes up his camera to look back at his...

Meeting of two greats, Cissé's tribute to the dean of African cinema is without discours, without pathos. It is the one returned by his mini...

In Rennes, as part of the 5th Traditional Arts Festival in 1978, storytellers and musicians from the Seychelles islands express their concern with...

A portrait of the Malian artist Mamadou Somé Coulibaly who draws his inspiration from the history of the African people.

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé reveals his passion for cinema, Africa and the world to Cambodian director Rithy Panh.