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Guinea (Conakry)

Filmmaker · Guinea (Conakry)

Sékoumar Barry

Sékoumar Barry, also called Sékou Oumar Barry, was born in 1935 in Forécariah, Guinea. He was studying cinema in France on a scholarship when the 1958 vote made him lose it; back in the country, he was sent by the new government to study in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Having become an employee of Syli Cinéma, the state body for production and distribution, he made short films on rice growing and sanitation, as well as a comedy in 1966. Arrested with other filmmakers after the attempted coup of 1970, he was released after eight months. He was living in Conakry in 2024.

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