Mali Movies

Meeting of two greats, Cissé's tribute to the dean of African cinema is without discours, without pathos. It is the one returned by his mini...

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

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

Malian-French director Daouda Coulibaly's auspicious debut is a pulse-pounding political thriller. Wùlu tells the unsettling tale of a man's...

A group of woman in a Malian village find a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women.

When an elderly man reveals that his son Hammala is the illegitimate son of a purported witch, the ugly side of social customs rears its head....

1968: Justin Ohounou is the Minister of the Interior Department. He is involved in scheming with a corrupt business man. His goal is to eliminate by...

Chaos ensues shortly after a young man in a remote village in northern Senegal refuses to accept his role as the new village chief.

Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian...

Acclaimed artist Abdou Ouologuem delves into the legend and legacy of the richest person in the history of the world, the 14th century Malian king...

Passionate sculptor Makan discovers he just won the lottery. This marks the start of a long chase in the streets of Bamako to search the coveted...

The plight of small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia forced off their land by an unprecedented corporate land grab. If they refuse they are subject...

Young Moussa left his native village of Nanguila to succeed in Bamako. But in the capital, he only lived on the cheap and even ended up in a...

Fatou Cissé accompanies her father, malien director Souleymane Cissé, through a trip down his film career, painting an intimate and...

Shocked by French président Nicolas Sarkozy’s claim that the African man has no history, filmmaker Cheikh N’diaye sets out to...

In Mali's Dadougou region, the secretive Kɔtɛ (kote) initiation rite is held every seven years or after a village chief's death, forming...

A young brother and sister try to balance school and their menial jobs in order to be able to continue their education and so that their impoverished...

A profile of Boubacar Traore, "Mali's Elvis Presley", a love story told by a singer whose music takes us on a social, political and geographic voyage...