...This chapter compares and contrasts Abderrahmane Sissako’s better-known films with the English-language novels of the Afropolitanism movement, whose African-born characters all share a familiarity with the realities of the Global North. The chapter further surveys the most celebrated films...

... characters in West-African films wear (knockoff) football jerseys. Starting from this observation this essay explores the connections between football, fantasy and cinema in films by three contemporary West African directors, Moussa Touré (Senegal), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mali), and Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad...

... and pictorial detachment. The chapter focuses on the photo-filmic qualities of three such films: Timbuktu directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, Test (Ispytaniye) by Alexander Kott, and Nabat, by Elchin Musaoglu (all made in 2014). cinema Musaoglu...

... by contemporary directors like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako and Rithy Panh, Cinéma-monde explores the porous borders around francophone spaces and the ways in which languages and identities ‘travel’ in contemporary cinema....