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Actor
Manthia Diawara
Directing
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Movies: 7Series: 0Crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 1434392
IMDb ID: nm0224938
Known for: Directing
Born: December 19, 1953
Age: 72
Place of birth: Bamako, Mali
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1994 - 2023
Years active: 30
Wikidata: Q3286629
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Director (7)
Biography
Manthia Diawara is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian. His essays on art, cinema, and politics have appeared in The New Times Magazine, LA Times, Libération, Mediapart, and Artforum. He is the author of two acclaimed memoirs: In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 2000) and We Won’t Budge: An African in the World (Basic Books, 2008). He has published several books on African and African American cinema. Diawara’s notable films include An Opera of the World (2017), Negritude: A Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor (2016), Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2010), Maison Tropicale (2008), Rouch In Reverse (1995), AI: African Intelligence (2023), and Angela Davis: A World of Wider Freedom (2024).
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Movie credits linked with Manthia Diawara.
10.0
AI: African Intelligence
as Self
2023 Movie
7.0
A Letter from Yene
as Self
2022 Movie
An Opera of the World
as Himself
2017 Movie
Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation
Director
2009 Movie
Maison Tropicale
Director
2008 Movie
Conakry Kas
Director
2004 Movie
9.0
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema
Director
1994 Movie