Abderrahmane Sissako
France, Mauritania, Luxemburg, Qatar
2026
27''
Summary
After the death of their father in Europe, a family of three sisters and three brothers fulfills the patriarch’s final wish: to be laid to rest beside his father, in eternal sleep, in his native village in Mauritania.
Written and Directed by ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO
Production : OMAR SY & MARYVONNE LE MEUR, A KOROKORO Production
Co-production : FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS – JEANNE MARCHALOT · a_BAHN – FRANÇOIS LE GALL · DUNE VISION – KESSEN FATOUMATA TALL
Executive Producer : FILM COMMITTEE AT MEDIA CITY QATAR
With the Participation of the CENTRE NATIONAL DU CINÉMA ET DE L’IMAGE ANIMÉE (CNC)
With the Support of FILM FUND LUXEMBOURG
Line producers : KESSEN FATOUMATA TALL / DUNE VISION - MAURITANIA
Immersive Production & Post-Production : PIERRE CATTAN / SMALL BANG
© 2026 Korokoro • France Télévisions • Dune Vision • a_Bahn
Abderrahmane Sissako
Réalisateur-rice
Abderrahmane Sissako crafts deeply humanist and engaged works, exploring the complex relationships between the Global North and South, as well as the fate of a resilient yet challenged Africa. A filmmaker navigating cultures and continents, Sissako was born in Mauritania in 1961, spent his childhood
in Mali, and left for the Soviet Union in 1983 to study cinema at VGIK in Moscow. There, he directed his first short films, including Le Jeu (1989) and Octobre (1991,37 minutes), which was selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993.
In the early 1990s, he settled in France, where he directed La Vie sur Terre (1998), screened at the Quinzaine
des Réalisateurs. His next feature, Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness), was selected for Un Certain Regard
in 2002 and won the FIPRESCI Prize. He returned to Cannes in 2006 with Bamako, presented out of competition. In 2014, Timbuktu became the first Mauritanian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2015). In France, it won seven César Awards, including Best Director and Best Film. In 2022, Sissako collaborated with Damon Albarn to create the opera Le Vol du Boli at the Théâtre du Châtelet. His latest film, Black Tea, was released in 2024.
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