04/24/2026
Please RSVP below for the screening of (2024) by the The renowned female director and filmmaker from Organized by WAA REEM Art and Entertainment.
On Friday from 2-5PM at Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building.
355 Roth Way, Stanford
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The will be followed by a featuring director Fatou Cissé alongside Professor and filmmaker of Chico State University, and , Stanford Graduate Student.
with Stanford Community of African Scholars Alumni (SCASA), and co-sponsored by the following Stanford African Volunteer Student Organizations: Nigerian Students Association (NAIJA), East African Students Association (EASSA), Ghanaian Students Association (Akwaaba), and Somali Students Association (SSA)
After secondary studies in Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso, Fatou Cissé attended the University of Caen to study psychology. She then left for Canada to train in the tourism and travel profession. She returned to Mali in 2003 to open a communications company DELI. After two years, she returned to cinema to help her father manage UCECAO (Union of Cinema and Audiovisual Creators and Entrepreneurs of West Africa). She works within the structure as a Mission Manager. She is also production director of Films Cissé and co-manager. Seeing the difficulties that her father has been going through since his beginnings to this day, she wanted to make a documentary retracing the life of Souleymane, recounting his experiences since childhood as well as his works in order to highlight his personality as a director. , this time she is making a fiction about forced marriage in Mali. In 2003, she was appointed as Mission Manager in the organization of the Bamako Cinematographic Meetings and the Nyamina International Festival, the aim of which is to allow directors from the 15 countries of the sub-region to share their difficulties and find a solution to problems.
This film relates Souleymane's fight for the truth which pushes the artist to speak out and get involved. This story is taken from a ; She wanted her characters to evolve in the beauty of wild nature, which allows them to escape from this suffocation of pain and emotions..... click on the
