Mali Movies

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local...

Ramatoulaye, a 50-year-old teacher, has been married to lawyer Modou Fall for 25 years. The couple is very close and happy. When her husband takes a...

A profile of Boubacar Traore, "Mali's Elvis Presley", a love story told by a singer whose music takes us on a social, political and geographic voyage...

Happy are those who, like Sekou, have had a great journey. A storyteller like his parents, he perfects his apprenticeship on a pilmigrage through...

In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali. They imposed one of the strictest interpretations of sharia law in history. On August 12th they...

Shocked by French président Nicolas Sarkozy’s claim that the African man has no history, filmmaker Cheikh N’diaye sets out to...

Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian...

A child with albinism is often regarded in traditional societies as a curse on their family. Salif Keita, born from a noble lineage of Mali, lived in...

The plight of small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia forced off their land by an unprecedented corporate land grab. If they refuse they are subject...

Malian-French director Daouda Coulibaly's auspicious debut is a pulse-pounding political thriller. Wùlu tells the unsettling tale of a man's...

Passionate sculptor Makan discovers he just won the lottery. This marks the start of a long chase in the streets of Bamako to search the coveted...

The Bamako Express takes more than 36 hours to connect Dakar to Bamako, about 1200 kilometers. During this crossing from West to East, multiple...

"Cinq jours d’une vie" is about a young man, N'Tji, orphaned at an early age, who lives under the supervision of his uncle. He is sent to...

The wise masters tell the King of Ségou of the birth of a boy constituting a threat to his power. In Macina, not far from Ségou,...

The story of a young student, lost in her hometown and alienated from her own traditions. After experiencing situations that made her feel powerless...

This ethnographic short portrays a ritual using masks among the Dogon people of Mali.

This powerful social drama from director Fatou Cissé, daughter of legendary Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, explores the impact of...

In Mali's Dadougou region, the secretive Kɔtɛ (kote) initiation rite is held every seven years or after a village chief's death, forming...