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Hamadoun Kassogué
Hamadoun Kassogué, also known as Kerifa and Kass, is a Malian actor born around 1957 in Kani Gogouna, in the commune of Wadouba. Biography Hamadoun Kassogué was born in 1957 in the village of Kani Godouna, in the commune of Wadouba ( Bandiagara Circle). He attended the National Institute of Arts, Kinshasa. Career Kassogué began his film career in 2001 by playing the role of Kerfa the Fool in the film '' Sia, The Dream of the Python'' by Dani Kouyaté. He later appeared in several films such as ''Kabala'' by Assane Kouyaté (2002); the 2001 TV series ''Les aventures de Séko Boiré'' written by Habib Dembélé; ''Bamako'' by Abderrahmane Sissako; ''Le Sage de Bandiagara'' by Louis Deck, where he not only acted but also served as assistant director; ''Toiles d'araignées'' by Ibrahima Touré (2011), and ''Wallay'' by Berni Goldblat Berni Goldblat is a Swiss-Zimbabwean filmmaker and critic. He has been a juror at the Africa Movie Academy Awards since 2007. Career Bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandiagara Cercle
Bandiagara Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Mopti Region of Mali. The administrative center (''chef-lieu'') is the town of Bandiagara. The Cercles of Mali, cercle is divided into these Communes of Mali, communes:. *Bandiagara *Bara Sara *Borko, Mali, Borko *Dandoli *Diamnati *Dogani Béré *Doucoumbo *Dourou *Kendé, Mali, Kendé *Kendié *Lougourougoumbou *Lowol Gueou, Lowol Guéou *Metoumou, Métoumou *Ondougou *Pelou *Pignari *Pignari Bana *Sangha, Mali, Sangha *Segue Ire, Ségué-Iré *Soroly *Timniri *Wadouba References Cercles of Mali Mopti Region {{Mopti-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako (; born 13 October 1961) is a Mauritanian-born Malian film director and producer. His film '' Waiting for Happiness'' (''Heremakono'') was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection under Un Certain Regard, winning a FIPRESCI Prize. His 2006 film ''Bamako'' received much attention. Sissako's themes include globalisation, exile and the displacement of people. His 2014 film ''Timbuktu'' was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Early life and education Sissako was born in Kiffa, Mauritania, in 1961. His father is a Malian from Sokolo. He spent his childhood in Mali, then returned to Mauritania at age 18 to live with his mother. He left for Moscow in 1983 with a scholarship to study cinema at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, where he made his graduation film, ''The Game'', in 1988. Career After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Bandiagara
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Births
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Malian Male Stage Actors
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Alioune Ifra Ndiaye
Alioune Ifra Ndiaye (born ) is a Malian film director and playwright. Biography Ndiaye is the son of a gendarme, and his older brother is film director Souleymane Cissé. Inspired by his brother's career, Ndiaye moved to Canada to study filmmaking at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He returned to Bamako in 1997 to earn a master's degree in history. In 1998, Ndiaye founded the BlonBa theatre troupe alongside his friend, French philosopher and writer Jean-Louis Sagot-Duvauroux. He also studied cultural relations at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Ndiaye co-wrote and produced five shows in the kotèba theatrical tradition, and the BlonBa troupe gave several hundred performances in Senegal, Benin, France and Belgium. In January 2007, BlonBa opened its cultural space, the only alternative to the French Cultural Center (CCF). The cultural space was forced to close in the aftermath of the 2012 Malian coup d'état, but its French branch allowed it to remain in busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berni Goldblat
Berni Goldblat is a Swiss-Zimbabwean filmmaker and critic. He has been a juror at the Africa Movie Academy Awards since 2007. Career Born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden, Goldblat has been doing video productions centered around West Africa since 1999. In 2000, he founded Cinomade, a Burkinabé association that aims to increase knowledge and appreciation of digital media to film-making. By 2006, he founded his own production company, Les films du Djabadjah in Burkina Faso. He was a jury at Imagé Santé International Film Festival in 2008. In 2017, he was made head of jury for the 13th edition of the AMAA awards. In 2009, his film, ''Hillside Crowd'' won the best documentary award at Brooklyn Film Festival The Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), prior to 2011 called the Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) is an independent film festival held every June in New York City. Started by Marco Ursino, Susan Mackell, Abe Schrager, and Mario Pegoraro in .... Filmography He has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamako (film)
''Bamako'' is a 2006 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, first released at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May and in Manhattan by New Yorker Films on 14 February 2007. The film depicts a trial taking place in Bamako, the capital of Mali, amid the daily life that is going on in the city. In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are guided by special interest of developed nations, or whether it is corruption and the individual nations' mismanagement, that is guilty of the current financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries as well as the rest of the poor undeveloped world. The film also touches on European colonization and discusses how it plays a role in shaping African societies and their resulting poverty and issues. Danny Glover, one of the film's executive producers, also guest-stars as an actor in a Western (genre), Western film (called ''Death in Timbuktu'') that some children are watching on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the northwest by Mauritania, to the south by Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, and to the west by Guinea and Senegal. The population of Mali is about 23.29 million, 47.19% of which are estimated to be under the age of 15 in 2024. Its Capital city, capital and largest city is Bamako. The country has 13 official languages, of which Bambara language, Bambara is the most commonly spoken. The sovereign state's northern borders reach deep into the middle of the Sahara, Sahara Desert. The country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, is in the Sudanian savanna and has the Niger River, Niger and Senegal River, Senegal rivers running through it. The country's economy centres on agriculture and mining with its most promine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habib Dembélé
Habib Dembélé (born 19 April 1962) is a Malian actor, director, and author, and a candidate for the Malian Presidential elections of 2002 and 2018. Early life and education Dembélé attended to Malian Institut National des Arts de Bamako (INA) after a school diploma : Etudes Fondamentales (DEF). Career Dembélé is an actor, director, and author. He performs on both stage and screen. He founded the Gouakoulou Company, the Guimba National Company and the Mandenka International Theatre. He received Mali's Best Actor Award in 1984. His theatre credits include ''The Strange Destiny of Wangrin'', ''Hyène à jeun'' and ''Waari''. His film credits include ''Guimba, le tyran'' and ''Finzan'' (by Cheick Oumar Sissoko), ''Filon d'or'' (by Sidi Diabaté) and ''Macadam Tribu'' (by Zeca Laplaine). He was also the assistant director on Cheick Oumar's 1997 film ''La genèse''. Dembélé co-adapted and performed in Sophocles' ''Antigone (Sophocles), Antigone'' and his writing credits incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assane Kouyaté
Assane Kouyaté (born 1954) is a Malian film director. Biography Assane Kouyaté was born in Bamako in 1954. In 1976 he got his degree in arts from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, then went to the Moscow Institute of Cinema and Television, where he got his Diploma of Study of Cinema in 1989. In 1988, he worked with Russian director Sergei Salaviov as an assistant on the movie ''Pigeon''. He has collaborated with many directors worldwide, such as the Argentine Pablo César (''Aphrodite'', 1998). In 2002, he produced his first full-length film of his own: ''Kabala'', which tells the story of a Mandé village whose well dries up. ''Kabala'' won both the award for best screenplay and the Special Jury Prize at the pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television at Ouagadougou Ouagadougou or Wagadugu (, , , ) is the capital city of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation. It is also the List of cities in Burk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
