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Souleymane Cissé Dies: Trailblazing Malian Director Was 84
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Active right up until his death, Cissé had recently attended a press conference to present two trophies a a pre-event for the 29th edition of Fespaco, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. After a series of documentaries and shorts, he broke into fiction with medium-length film Five Days In A Life(1973), about a young boy who drops out of a Koranic school, without any skills and turns to petty thievery to survive, to then land in jail. His 1987 film Yeelen, about a young man with magical powers seeks out his uncle to help him in fighting his sorcerer father, truly put Cissé on the map outside of Africa when it won the Cannes Jury Prize.
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