Tribute to Cheick Oumar SISSOKO

In 1986, the Festival of the 3 Continents showed a new film by a young film-maker from Mali in competition: Cheick-Oumar Sissoko's Nyamanton (The Garbage Boys). Since then, the Festival and this film-maker have had a long and friendly relationship which has taken the form of a support to the projects he undertook and the programming of his films. Over the last fourteen years, we have enjoyed his talent and appreciated his commitment to cinema. African cinema is notoriously poor, both in films and film-makers. This is why we thought it was all the more important to pay a tribute to someone we like very much for his outstanding work as a courageous and militant (in the best sense of the word) film-maker.
Cheick-Oumar Sissoko has already done a lot for African cinema. We hope he can carry on with his mission and it is with great pleasure that we have included all his fiction films in this year's programme.

Nyamanton / The Garbage Boys - 1985

Finzan - 1989

Guimba, un tyran, une époque / Guimba, a Tyrant and His Time - 1995

La Genèse / Genesis - 1999

Battu - 2000