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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 “Le Jeu” (1989), followed by “Octobre” (1991), presented at the Cannes Film Festival. His films explore themes such as loss and exile. In the early 1990s, he settled in France, where he directed “La Vie sur Terre” (1998), presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. He then made “Waiting for Happiness” (2002, 26th Mostra), presented in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Critics’ Prize; “Bamako” (2006), also presented at the Cannes Film Festival; and “Timbuktu” (2014), the first Mauritanian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language 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.