The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Mali
This page contains a list of the greatest Malian Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Mali. This makes Mali the birth place of the 73rd most number of Film Directors behind Cuba and Mozambique.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malian Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Malian Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Souleymane Cissé (1940 - )
With an HPI of 47.89, Souleymane Cissé is the most famous Malian Film Director. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Souleymane Cissé (born April 21, 1940) is a Malian film director, regarded as one of the first generation of African filmmakers. He has been called "Africa's greatest living filmmaker" while his film Yeelen has been called "conceivably the greatest African film ever made."
Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1940 and 1940. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living film directors include Souleymane Cissé.
