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Mauritania

Filmmaker · Mauritania

Abderrahmane Sissako

Abderrahmane Sissako was born on 13 October 1961 in Kiffa, Mauritania, and spent his childhood in Mali, his family's country of origin. Back with his mother in 1980, he left in 1983 for Moscow, where he studied cinema at the National Institute of Cinematography until 1989, under Marlen Khutsiev. Settled in France in the early nineties, he chaired the Un Certain Regard jury at Cannes in 2003. In 2015 he was the first African filmmaker to receive the César for best director, and one of his films also won the César for best film.

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