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Abderrahmane Sissako
Director

Abderrahmane Sissako

Country Mauritania · Kiffa
Born 1961-10-13
Birthplace Kiffa, Mauritania

A poet of displacement and spiritual inquiry who transforms the Sahel into a space of moral reckoning. His films move with the patience of prayer — long takes across desert and city, where small gestures contain the weight of history, faith, and exile.