La Vie Sur Terre

1999 film
  • Abderrahmane Sissako
  • Nana Baby
  • Mohamed Sissako
CinematographyJacques BesseEdited byNadia Ben RachidDistributed by
  • California Newsreel
  • Haut et Court (France)
Release date
  • June 9, 1999 (1999-06-09) (France)
Running time
61 minutesCountries
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • France
Languages
  • French
  • Bambara

La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) is a 1998 Malian comedy/drama film written and directed by, and starring Abderrahmane Sissako. It is set in the village of Sokolo and depicts rural life on the eve of the 21st century. Runtime is 61 minutes. The film was made for the 2000, Seen By... project,[1] initiated by the French company Haut et Court to produce films depicting the approaching turn of the millennium seen from the perspectives of 10 different countries.[2]

The film earned Sissako awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival, the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

References

  1. ^ "La Vie Sur Terre," Haut et Court, URL accessed 15 August 2016.
  2. ^ Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide, Wallflower Press, 2002, p. 367.

External links

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Films directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
  • Life on Earth (1998)
  • Waiting for Happiness (2002)
  • Bamako (2006)
  • Stories on Human Rights (2008)
  • 8 (2008)
  • Timbuktu (2014)
  • Black Tea (2024)
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2000, Seen By...
Film series by Haut et Court and Arte
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1972–2000
  • Bezness (1993)
  • Miel et cendres (1997)
  • La Vie Sur Terre (1999)
2001–present
  • Promised Land (2003)
  • Le Prince (2005)
  • Making Of (2007)
  • Jerusalema (2009)
  • Souad (2021)


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