Timité Bassori

Born: 1933-12-30

Timité Bassori is an Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer. His lone feature-length film, The Woman with the Knife (1969), is considered a classic of African cinema,[3] and is slated to be restored as part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative to preserve 50 African films through the collaboration of the groups FEPACI, UNESCO, Cineteca di Bologna, and Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation.


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The Woman with the Knife

as The Man / The Man in a Tux (as Tim' Sory)
Released: 2019-06-28

A young, unnamed Ivorian intellectual returns home after a lengthy spell in France. Failing to...

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Tahar Chériaa: A l'Ombre du Baobab

as Self
Released: 2014-11-30

Tahar Cheriaa: Under the Shadow of the Baobab documents the career of one of the core fathers of...

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