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Souleymane Cissé (1940-2025) was a Malian film director. In 1975 he shot Den Muso (The Young Girl), the first full length Malian feature in the Bambara language. It was immediately banned by the government. Then followed Baara (Work) in 1977, Finyè (The Wind) in 1981, and Yeelen (Brightness), Prix du Jury in Cannes in 1987.
Total trailers found: 16
17 May 2022
Fatou Cissé accompanies her father, malien director Souleymane Cissé, through a trip down his film career, painting an intimate and poetic picture of one of Africa’s most celebrated actors.
01 January 1973
"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.
31 December 1968
A portrait of the Malian artist Mamadou Somé Coulibaly who draws his inspiration from the history of the African people.
01 January 2015
Bamako. Several women are illegally evicted from their home in 2008. Their brother, Souleymane Cissé, takes up his camera to look back at his childhood and family history in a country heading for war despite a tradition of tolerance.
31 December 1978
In Rennes, as part of the 5th Traditional Arts Festival in 1978, storytellers and musicians from the Seychelles islands express their concern with modernism and the disinterest of young people in traditional music.
01 July 1987
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
27 July 2014
Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque Française—recounting his influence on their lives, his role in preserving film history, and his enduring impact on world cinema.
19 February 1991
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé reveals his passion for cinema, Africa and the world to Cambodian director Rithy Panh.
07 June 1995
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.
21 May 2009
A Westernized filmmaker, Issa, is a polygamist whose third wife Mimi is a doctor and high-profile health minister.
01 January 1975
A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. The film also sketches the social/economic situation in urban Mali in the 1970s, particularly in relation to the treatment of women.
19 May 2013
Meeting of two greats, Cissé's tribute to the dean of African cinema is without discours, without pathos.
24 September 1983
Two Malian teenagers, Bah and Batrou, from different backgrounds, meet at secondary school. Bah is the descendent of a great tribal chieftain.
07 August 1978
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.
