An adultery drama set in a bourgeois family in Bamako, Mali, where tensions are rife within the household: Mimi, bored with the polygamy and routine of marriage, wants to leave Issa. She has a lover, Abba. How will all three cope with this?Read More »
Bambara
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Souleymane Cissé – Min Ye AKA Tell Me Who You Are (2009)
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Adama Drabo – Ta Dona AKA Fire (1991)
1991-2000Adama DraboAfrican CinemaDramaMaliA forestry engineer pushes for reforestation measures, against the will of his selfish superiors, and embarks on a search for a mystical healing plant linking him with the ancestral knowledge of his people.Read More »
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Souleymane Cissé – Waati AKA Time (1995)
1991-2000African CinemaDramaMaliSouleymane CisséQuote:
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 white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.Read More »