The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Mauritania
This page contains a list of the greatest Mauritanian Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 2 of which were born in Mauritania. This makes Mauritania the birth place of the 60th most number of Film Directors behind Monaco, and Azerbaijan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mauritanian Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Mauritanian Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abderrahmane Sissako (b. 1961)
With an HPI of 46.74, Abderrahmane Sissako is the most famous Mauritanian Film Director. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Abderrahmane Sissako (Arabic: عبد الرحمن سيساكو; born 13 October 1961) is a Mauritanian-born Malian film director and producer. His film Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection under Un Certain Regard, winning a FIPRESCI Prize. His 2006 film Bamako received much attention. Sissako's themes include globalisation, exile and the displacement of people. His 2014 film Timbuktu was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Mauritanian film directors born between 1961 and 1961. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Mauritanian film directors include Abderrahmane Sissako.
