Abderrahmane Sissako Movies

  • 2014
    Timbuktu

    Timbuktu

    Timbuktu

    72014HD

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

    Timbuktu
  • 2002
    Waiting for Happiness

    Waiting for Happiness

    Waiting for Happiness

    6.42002HD

    Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there,...

    Waiting for Happiness
  • 2006
    Bamako

    Bamako

    Bamako

    6.92006HD

    Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of...

    Bamako
  • 2024
    Black Tea

    Black Tea

    Black Tea

    5.62024HD

    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...

    Black Tea
  • 2008
    8

    8

    8

    5.22008HD

    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...

    8
  • 2008
    Stories on Human Rights

    Stories on Human Rights

    Stories on Human Rights

    2.72008HD

    20 short films about human rights.

    Stories on Human Rights
  • 2002
    Abouna

    Abouna

    Abouna

    62002HD

    Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While...

    Abouna
  • 1991
    The Game

    The Game

    The Game

    5.41991HD

    Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that...

    The Game
  • 2006
    Dry Season

    Dry Season

    Dry Season

    72006HD

    Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar...

    Dry Season
  • 1997
    Documenta X - Die Filme

    Documenta X - Die Filme

    Documenta X - Die Filme

    01997HD

    Documenta X - Die Filme
  • 1998
    Life on Earth

    Life on Earth

    Life on Earth

    5.71998HD

    Just before the turn of the 21st century, Dramane, a Malian who lives in Paris, returns to his family's African village to visit his father. After...

    Life on Earth
  • 1998
    Rostov-Luanda

    Rostov-Luanda

    Rostov-Luanda

    6.31998HD

    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...

    Rostov-Luanda
  • 2008
    Tiya's Dream

    Tiya's Dream

    Tiya's Dream

    02008HD

    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...

    Tiya's Dream
  • 2017
    Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

    Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

    Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

    02017HD

    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...

    Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
  • 1993
    October

    October

    October

    5.61993HD

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

    October
  • 1997
    Africa Dreaming

    Africa Dreaming

    Africa Dreaming

    01997HD

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

    Africa Dreaming
  • 2019
    Al Zubarah

    Al Zubarah

    Al Zubarah

    02019HD

    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...

    Al Zubarah
  • 2003
    Little Men

    Little Men

    Little Men

    02003HD

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

    Little Men
  • 2019
    Life in Al Barr

    Life in Al Barr

    Life in Al Barr

    02019HD

    Shot in glimmering black-and-white reminiscent of classic silver-nitrate cinema, Sissako's 9-minute film was photographed over the course of seven...

    Life in Al Barr
  • 1994
    Molom: A Legend of Mongolia

    Molom: A Legend of Mongolia

    Molom: A Legend of Mongolia

    01994HD

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

    Molom: A Legend of Mongolia