Djibril Diop Mambéty
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.
Hyenas
as The JudgeA now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her...
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City of Contrasts
as uncreditedA fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation...
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The Death Knell
as NarratorAt the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),...
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10,000 Years of Cinema
as uncreditedThis documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop...
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Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane
as uncreditedIn April and May 1991, Djibril Diop Mambéty shot his second—and final—feature, Hyenas, a free,...
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Mambéty
as SelfSenegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty, one of the greatest figures in all of African film,...
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