Gahité Fofana (born 1965 in France) is a

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film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

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and screen writer who studied literature and filmmaking in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. Starting out as a creator of

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

s, he later wrote, directed and produced

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Filmography

Fofana's films include:. International Movie Database. Consulted on 16 June 2023.

Awards

Fofana won Special Jury Prizes at the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

in 1996 for ''Une parole, un visage'' and ''Tèmèdy'' and at the

Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur The ''Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur'' (FIFF) is a festival dedicated to French speaking films in Namur, Belgium created in 1986, reflecting francophone diversity, from Europe, Canada and Africa. History The festival is cr ...

(FIFF) in 2001 for ''I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire''.

External links

Film extracts

* . Bafila Films Vidéos, 2013. Duration 1m 34s. * . Bafila Films Vidéos, 2013. Duration 1m 40s. Following extracts 2/5: 52s, 3/5: 3m 2s, 4/5: 1m 29s, 5/5: 2m 55s. * . Bafila Films Vidéos, 2013. Duration 1m 30s. * . Bafila Films Vidéos, 2016. Duration 1m 29s. * . Bafila Films Vidéos, 2016. Duration 2m 11s. Following extract 3/3: 2m 22s. * . Philippe EIDEL, 2016. Duration 3m 11s.

Interviews

* . Krysalide Diffusion, 2011. Duration 4m 49s. Festival Cinemondes 2011, Le Festival International du Film Independent (Fifi). * . KINA TV, 2013. Duration 5m 01s.

References

1965 births Guinean actors Guinean film directors Living people {{Africa-film-director-stub