La Vie Sur Terre
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La Vie Sur Terre is a 1998 Mali
an 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 earned Sissako awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival
, the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival
.
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...
an comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
/drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
written and directed by, and starring Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France. Sissako is, along with Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril Diop Mambety, one of the few filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa to reach a measure of international...
. It is set in the village of Sokolo
Sokolo
Sokolo is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Niona in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 17,010.The 1998 film La Vie Sur Terre was made there....
and depicts rural life on the eve of the 21st century. Runtime is 61 minutes.
The film earned Sissako awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival
Fribourg International Film Festival
The Fribourg International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Fribourg, Switzerland. It is focused on selected cultural films from Asia, Africa and Latin America....
, the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...
.