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Djibril Diop Mambéty

Biography

Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.

Known For

Hyenas
Hyenas
Contras' City
Contras' City
The Death Knell
The Death Knell
10,000 Years of Cinema
10,000 Years of Cinema
Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane
Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane
Mambéty
Mambéty
Cinema is Magic
Cinema is Magic
Badou Boy
Badou Boy

Filmography

2023 Cinema is Magic
as Self
2002 Mambéty
as Self
1996 Grandma's Grammar
as Himself
1992 Hyenas
as The Judge
1991 Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane
as
1991 10,000 Years of Cinema
as
1970 Badou Boy
as
1969 Contras' City
as
1964 The Death Knell
as Narrator