Assane Kouyaté (born 1954) is a

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...

an film director.

Biography

Assane Kouyaté was born in

Bamako Bamako ( bm, ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ ''Bàmakɔ̌'', ff, 𞤄𞤢𞤥𞤢𞤳𞤮 ''Bamako'') is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2009 population of 1,810,366 and an estimated 2022 population of 2.81 million. It is located on the Niger Rive ...

in 1954. In 1976 he got his degree in arts from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, then went to the Moscow Institute of Cinema and Television, where he got his Diploma of Study of Cinema in 1989. In 1988, he worked with Russian director Sergei Salaviov as an assistant on the movie ''Pigeon''. He has collaborated with many directors worldwide, such as the Argentine

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Filmography

* ''Kabala'' (2002)

External links

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