Abderrahmane Sissako

Black Tea (2024)

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone's astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive th ...

Le vol du Boli (2020)

Life in Al Barr (2019)

Shot in glimmering black-and-white reminiscent of classic silver-nitrate cinema, Sissako's 9-minute film was photographed over the course of seven days in March 2017 in Rawda Al Ghadriat, in the Northern Desert of Qatar, and features members of the Bedouin ...

Al Zubarah (2019)

Al Zubarah tells the story of life in the old coastal city of Al Zubarah, one of Qatar's most significant historical sites. From the break of dawn and the echo of morning prayer, the director, Abderrahmane Sissako travels with his audience through the ...

Timbuktu (2014)

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman. ...

8 (2008)

8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today. ...

Stories on Human Rights (2008)

20 short films about human rights. ...

Tiya's Dream (2008)

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she doesn't listen. She is staring at the window. Outside, some children are playing rugby... Abderrahmane Siss ...

Bamako (2007)

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in ...

Dry Season (2006)

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute ...

Little Men (2003)

Little Men is about two sympathetic losers with good looks, about groovy tunes and dry slapstick humour. ...

Our Father (2002)

Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the f ...

Waiting for Happiness (2002)

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: he can no longer speak the local dialect and he wea ...

Life on Earth (1998)

Just before the turn of the 21st century, Drahmane returns to his father's village in Sokolo, Mali. A contemplative bike stroll around town makes him reflect on the significance of time passing at the dawn of a new millennium. As everybody goes on with the ...

Rostov-Luanda (1998)

Sissako visits a war-torn Angola after thirty years of war in search of a friend and thereby through interviews reflects on the lost utopias of a generation of Africans who experienced the liberation struggles. His camera is witness to the dislocation and ...

Documenta X - Die Filme (1997)

Sabriya (1997)

This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life- ...

Africa Dreaming (1997)

A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa. ...

Molom: A Legend of Mongolia (1994)

Molom, the shaman, takes Yonden, a child lost among wolves, under his protection, and walks with him through the Mongolian steppe. ...

October (1993)

Ira wanders around the streets of Moscow. She's pregnant with the child of Adrissa, an african student. ...

The Game (1991)

Ahmed's father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. ...

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories (2017)

To be somewhere precise yet stand nowhere at all, to embody one's convictions, yet never miss the essential, to rise up and be present at the critical moment, to bear witness to a world waiting to tell itself and be retold, to come and go, both at once, ab ...

Bamako (2007)

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in ...

Life on Earth (1998)

Just before the turn of the 21st century, Drahmane returns to his father's village in Sokolo, Mali. A contemplative bike stroll around town makes him reflect on the significance of time passing at the dawn of a new millennium. As everybody goes on with the ...

Rostov-Luanda (1998)

Sissako visits a war-torn Angola after thirty years of war in search of a friend and thereby through interviews reflects on the lost utopias of a generation of Africans who experienced the liberation struggles. His camera is witness to the dislocation and ...