Sotigui KouyatéFilmography

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London River

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan

Synopsis: It marked a sickening and devastating second act to 9/11: on July 7, 2005, a series of bombs exploded on the London subways, all ignited by terrorist extremists. Over 700 people were severely injured, 56 people killed; authorities later discovered a video tape from one of the jihadists, declaring Read More

2009
Faro: Goddess of the Waters

Actors: Fily Traore, Djénéba Koné, Michel Mpambara, Hélène Diarra, Habib Dembélé, Kardigue Laico Traore

Synopsis: First-time feature filmmaker Salif Traore follows in the footsteps of master filmmaker Ousmane Sembene with this drama that follows a bastard who returns to his rural Mali village after being cast out many years back. Zanga (Fili Traoré) was born out of wedlock, making him a figure of scorn to the Read More

2007
Genesis

Synopsis: The cycle of life of a handful of different animals is captured on film in a whole new way in this documentary. Using special motion-control photography equipment, Genesis allows filmgoers to view animal behaviors which are too small, too slow, or too difficult to normally be seen with the naked Read More

5/27/05
Housewarming

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Giulia Dussolier, Ferdinand Chesnais, Sotigui Kouyaté, Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis: In Housewarming (the original title of which translates as Remodeling: You Know When It Starts...), Carole Bouquet stars as Chantal Letellier, a wealthy, powerful, and happily divorced Paris attorney who devotes a lot of her time to helping the city's poorly treated immigrants. Chantal literally Read More

2005
The Ring Finger

Actors: Olga Kurylenko, Stipe Erceg, Marc Barbé, Edith Scob

Synopsis: Yoko Ogawa's cult novel serves as the inspiration for director Diane Bertrand's haunting erotic drama starring Olga Kurylenko. Iris (Kurylenko) is looking for employment when she goes to work for an eccentric scientist who specializes in preserving people's personal mementos. Later, as Iris Read More

2005
The Truth About Charlie

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins, Park Joong-Hoon

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme filters the classic Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant vehicle Charade through the influence of the French New Wave in this stylish romantic thriller. Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) has been having second thoughts about her marriage to the often enigmatic art dealer Charlie (Stephen Dillane Read More

10/25/02
Little Senegal

Actors: Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem

Synopsis: A man goes on a pilgrimage in search of his heritage -- only this time it's an African coming to America in this offbeat drama. Alloune (Sotigui Kouyate) is an elderly man who works at a museum in his native Senegal that is devoted to documenting the history of the slave trade in Africa. Many Read More

2001
Sia, Le Reve Du Python

Actors: Sotigui Kouyaté, Fatoumata Diawara, Ibrahim Baba Cisse, Habib Dembélé, Hamadoun Kassogue

2001
Genesis

Actors: Sotigui Kouyaté, Salif Keita, Balla Moussa Keita, Fatoumata Diawara, Maimouna Helene Diarra

Synopsis: The Bible's Book of Genesis is given a new spin by director Cheik Oumar Sissoko in his film La Genèse/Genesis, which recasts a famous story by relocating it in the nation of Mali and using a cast of African actors. Covering chapters 23 through 37, in which the world is reborn after the great Read More

1999
Civilisées

Actors: Jalila Baccar, Hassan Farhat

Synopsis: Lebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbag spins this bleak war drama about the brutal absurdity of the urban warfare of Beirut during the 1980s. Opening with the shocking image of kittens being blown apart, the film loosely follows the travails of Bernadette (Nada Ghosn), a naïve country girl sent to Read More

1999
Keïta! L'Héritage Du Griot

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Sotigui Kouyaté, S. Boro

Synopsis: In this French-Burkina Faso children's drama, a 10-year-old Burkinabe boy finds himself faced with difficult choices when an enigmatic old "griot," a tribal wise man, suddenly comes to call. Up until then, Mabo had been living a fairly Westernized lifestyle with his comfortably middle-class family Read More

10/29/97
Saraka Bô

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Yvan Attal, Anne Roussel, Aïssa Maïga

Synopsis: A pair of French detectives enter a different world after they are assigned to solve a puzzling double homicide that occurred in an African neighborhood in Paris. The corpses of the two masked Malian women were discovered ritually mutilated and hanging from a ceiling. The detectives' search leads Read More

1/15/97
Rainbow Pour Rimbaud

Actors: Laure Marsac, Bernadette Lafont, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: In this film, director/screenwriter Jean Teule adapts his novel Rainbow pour Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a leading light in the symbolist movement of French literature, which rejected the use of realism in the depiction of emotions and ideas. In this film, Robert (Robert MacLeod) is an Read More

1996
A Cran

Actors: Clémentine Célarié, Bruno Todeschini, Sotigui Kouyaté, Andrée Damant

Synopsis: A man. A woman. A single night in Paris. Such is the basic framework of this French romance that begins when middle-aged middle-class housewife Clara, happily drives to the airport to meet her husband who was supposed to come in on the evening flight and is devastated to learn that he has remained Read More

2/15/95
Apres La Pluie

Actors: Sotigui Kouyaté, Laurence Côte, Patrick Le Mauff

1995
Le Maitre des Elephants

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Erwan Baynaud, Victor Tige Zra, Halilou Bouba

Synopsis: This French family-oriented adventure is set in the Cameroons and Zimbabwe and follows the exploits of a 12-year-old French boy who, following the death of his mother, is sent to Africa to live with his father, the overseer of a large game preserve. The boy, Martin, has not seen his father since Read More

1995
Sale Gosse

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Axel Lingee, Alberto Gimignani

Synopsis: A 10-year-old boy's fantasies about his absent father provide the basis for this thoughtful French drama that uses comedy, drama, and tenderness to present a realistic, not overly sentimental portrait of a dysfunctional family. Martin lives in Lyon with his mother Nina. Martin is an energetic Read More

1995
Wendemi, L'Enfant Du Bon Dieu

Actors: Abdoulaye Komboudri, Celestin Zongo

Synopsis: After a battle with her parents during which she refuses to name the father of her child, his mother abandons Wendemi in a field where he is adopted and rescued by kindly older people. They give him the name Wendemi. Later, he is taken from these people and is settled with a family far away from Read More

1993
Tombes du Ciel

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Ticky Holgado, Marisa Paredes, Laura del Sol

Synopsis: It is not necessary to know that this story is based on a true incident in order to enjoy it; in real life, a man landed in a major European airport without the necessary papers, and while authorities worked (slowly, ever-so slowly) to resolve his citizenship status, he lived and worked there Read More

1993
IP5: L'Île aux Pachydermes

Actors: Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Sekkou Sall, Géraldine Pailhas

Synopsis: In this French adventure, two Parisian street kids embark upon a strange journey to Grenoble in the back of a delivery truck. One of the lads is an adolescent Spanish graffiti artist while the other is an 11-year-old black rapper. Once there, the young boy is delighted to see his first snowfall. Read More

1992
The Sheltering Sky

Actors: John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to North Africa in the late '40s with the hopes of re-sparking their love Read More

10/12/90
The Mahabharata

Actors: Robert Langton-Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Director Peter Brook collaborates with writer Jean-Claude Carriére for this screen adaptation of the epic, 100,000-stanza Sanskrit poem tracing mankind's quest for universal truth as explored through the ongoing conflict between two warring families - the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Originally a Read More

1989
Boulevards D'Afrique

Actors: Irene Tassembedo, Sotigui Kouyaté

Synopsis: This French 16-millimeter feature received its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Novice director Tam-Sir Doueb was assisted by veteran Jean Rouch, famed for such documentaries as Chronicle of a Summer and Jaguar. Subtitled bac ou mariage, the film is based on the popular Read More

1989
Eden Miseria

Actors: Danuta Zarazik, Philippe Clevenot, Abdallah Badis, Inês de Medeiros, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: Danuta Zarasik plays Isabelle Eberhardt in this biographical drama. At the turn of the 20th century, Isabelle fell in love with the African desert, donning men's clothing to travel and record her adventures in writing while her Moslem husband patiently waited at home. This visually stunning Read More

1989
Black Mic-Mac

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Isaach de Bankolé, Felicite Wouassi, Khoudia Seye, Cheikh Doukouré

Synopsis: This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with eviction, they find themselves fighting against a bureaucracy that few French citizens understand Read More

1986
Le Medecin de Gafire

Actors: Sidiki Bakaba

Synopsis: A little long at 92 minutes, this uneven tale of modern medicine versus sorcery follows a Western-trained African doctor to his post in a remote jungle village. After the doctor arrives with his wife, she starts teaching French to anyone who wants to learn (the doctor was trained in France), and Read More

1986
Descente Aux Enfers

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Gérard Rinaldi, Sidiki Bakaba, Hippolyte Girardot

Synopsis: In this routine psychological thriller, a husband and wife try to jump start their failing marriage by taking a vacation in Haiti, only to find more problems waiting for them after they arrive. Alan (Claude Brasseur) is an older and experienced writer who is suffering from serious writer's block Read More

1986
Jours De Tourmentes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sotigui Kouyaté

Synopsis: A picturesque slice of West African village life is the focus of this slow-paced but interesting drama from novice director Paul Zoumbara. The dramatic tension in the story is created by Pierre (Yacine Tall), a young farmer who has new ideas about planting his crops for a better yield, and three Read More

1985
Le Courage Des Autres

Actors: Sotigui Kouyaté, Baba Kouyaté, Mady Pafadnam

Synopsis: This anti-slavery docudrama by Christian Richard, a Frenchman teaching film in the capital of Burkina Faso (Upper Volta at this time), is divided into a first half, when villagers are slowly captured by slave traders and forced on a long and silent march to presumed deportation, followed by an Read More

1982