Not many directors from Africa have received the critical and international respect and prestige Abderrahmane Sissako has enjoyed over the years. In a career spanning more than 30 years, the ...

Oscar nominee Abderrahmane Sissako (“Timbuktu”) returns to the screen for the first time in nearly a decade with his latest feature, “Black Tea,” a lushly lensed romantic drama about a love spanning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eight years after delivering his Oscar-nominated film “Timbuktu,” Abderrahmane Sissako is set to make his anticipated directorial ...

The director began to weep while discussing his competition film's depiction of the brutal Islamic law that has been instituted in his home country of Mali. By The Associated Press Abderrahmane ...

"It's very special." "I love the scent." "So do I." Gaumont in France has revealed the first promo trailer for an indie relationship drama titled Black Tea, a brand new film made by acclaimed ...

It was too hot for Africa and got banned in Paris. Abderrahmane Sissako, the director of Timbuktu, explains why the film makes him cry On 29 July 2012, while much of the world was glued to the London ...

As his Oscar-nominated film Timbuktu hits UK screens tomorrow we chart the career of one of Africa’s great contemporary filmmakers Of the (scandalously) few African filmmakers who have found ...

Three years ago, when Islamist rebels seized the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako began planning a film about Islamic extremism. As an African Muslim, he says he always ...

Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako admits he was naive to think he could shoot his award-winning drama “Timbuktu” in the ancient Mali city so soon after the French military had driven out Islamic ...