Mansour Sora Wade (born 1952, in

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) is a Senegalese film director of

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ancestry. He studied at

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and went on to direct the audiovisual archives for the Senegalese Ministry of Culture, a job he held from 1977 to 1985. He began making short films in 1983. In 2002 he won the

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Partial filmography

*1983 : ''Contrastes'' (CM) *1989 : ''Fary l'ânesse'' (CM) *1990 : ''Taal Pexx'' *1992 : ''Picc Mi'' (CM) *1993 : ''Aida Souka'' *2002 : ''Ndeysaan'' ou ''Le Prix du pardon'' (LM) *2009 : ''Les feux de Mansaré''

References

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