Abderrahmane Sissako (born October 13, 1961 in Kiffa, Mauritania) is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France.
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1998 : La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) (35mm, 67 minutes), set on the last day of the millennium (commissioned for the 2000 Seen By... series featuring other directors such as Tsai Ming-liang and Laurent Cantet) and filmed in Sokolo, Mali, Sissako's father's village.
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2006 : Bamako (115 minutes), images of Mali's capital: everyday lives, a trial implicating the International Monetary Fund and World Bank for global poverty, a film within a film starring Danny Glover.