Abderrahmane Sissako

Born October 13, 1961· Kiffa, Mauritania

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Born in Kiffa, Mauritania, to a Malian father, he spent his youth in Mali before rejoining his mother in his homeland and later receiving a scholarship that took him to Moscow’s Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, where he completed his graduation short The Game in 1988. After a dozen years in Russia he settled in Paris in 1994. His feature debut Waiting for Happiness (2002) entered Cannes’…