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Souleymane Cissé
Director

Souleymane Cissé

Country Mali · Bamako
Born 1940-04-21
Died 2025-02-19
Birthplace Bamako, Mali

The architect of African cinema's inner life. His films move with the patience of ritual, the weight of history — images that breathe, that refuse to explain themselves. Cissé makes cinema as an act of resistance and remembrance, where the personal is always political, always spiritual.