Person
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Writing · 1945–1998 · Dakar, Senegal
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
Grandma's Grammar
Himself
Hyenas
The Judge
Touki Bouki
Writer
Le Franc
Director
Badou Boy
1970
Mambéty
Self
Contras' City
1969
Mambéty For Ever
Self
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Director
Cinema is Magic
Self
Filmography
- 2023Cinema is MagicSelf
- 2008Mambéty For EverSelf
- 2002MambétySelf
- 1999The Little Girl Who Sold the SunDirector
- 1996Grandma's GrammarHimself
- 1995Le FrancDirector
- 1992HyenasThe Judge
- 1991Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane
- 199110,000 Years of Cinema
- 1989The Making of YaabaDirector
- 1973Touki BoukiWriter
- 1971Fight in VainAssistant Director
- 1970Badou Boy
- 1969Contras' City
- 1964The Death KnellNarrator
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