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Filmmaker · Senegal

Moussa Sène Absa

Moussa Sène Absa was born in 1958 in a seaside neighbourhood of the Dakar suburbs, into a Serer family. An actor at first, he wrote and staged a play, and has painted since 1976 canvases exhibited in Senegal, Europe and North America. His first feature film received the silver Tanit of Carthage in 1988. He writes the songs for all his films, has made about ten documentaries and produced for national television a comic series that won him a wide audience.

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