Abderrahmane Sissako
Mauritanian film director and film producer (born 1961)
1.11body-of-work score · ranked #798 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library
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- Born
- October 13, 1961 · Kiffa
- Nationality
- Mauritania, Mali, France
- Work
- film producer, film director, actor, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1TimbuktuLe Chagrin des oiseaux
2014 · France / Mauritania · drama
César Best Film winner 2015 · Film Comment year-end poll 2015 #6
1.112 citations
Complete filmography
All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1988The Game
- 1997Rostov-Luanda
- 1997Sabriya
- 1998Life on Earth
- 2002Waiting for Happiness
- 2006Bamako
- 20088
- 2008Le Rêve de Tiya
- 2008Stories on Human Rights
- 2014Timbuktu
- 2024Black Tea