4 Films & TV Shows Set In Mali During The 20th Century
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N: The Madness Of Reason
🇫🇷 France 🇲🇱 Mali The 1980sN recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th-century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other world, dreaming of eternal recognition. He died, however, having only reached the letter N. With his encyclopaedia incomplete, his restless spirit drifts around West Africa, caught between life and death, past and present. This is the story of how he tries to complete his unfinished task from beyond death. N is both visually and musically a truly striking film. It is a multi-layered audio-visual symphony of great narrative richness. Hovering between dream and reality, this magical film plays on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.
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Life on Earth
🇲🇱 Mali The 1990sLa Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) is a 1998 Malian comedy/drama film written and directed by, and starring Abderrahmane Sissako. It is set in the village of Sokolo and depicts rural life on the eve of the 21st century. Runtime is 61 minutes.The film earned Sissako awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival, the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Women with Eyes Open
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 🇧🇯 Benin 🇲🇱 Mali 🇸🇳 Senegal The 1990sPortraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.
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Timbuktu
🇲🇱 Mali The 1940sThe mighty revolt that turned the Sahara red! — An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
