Mali’s highly acclaimed director Souleymane ... Cisse won the jury’s prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for “Yeelen” (“Brightness”), which draws on legends from west Africa ...

an award-winning writer and director who became the first Black African filmmaker to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, died on Wednesday in Bamako, Mali. He was 84. His death was ...

Mali's Culture Minister Mamou Daffé lamented the loss "of this monument of African cinema", while fellow Malian director Boubacar Sidibé said the country's film industry was in "mourning".

Cissé also twice won the Étalon d’or de Yennenga, the Grand Prize of the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film and Television Festival. Born in Bamako, Mali, Cissé studied in Mali, Senegal and Moscow.

Dr Rutuj Mali, who is a real life doctor, speaks on his Bollywood debut in Sohum Shah starrer Crazxy. Read more ...