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A Thousand Suns

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Directed by Mati Diop
France, 2013
Documentary

Synopsis

Actress and filmmaker Mati Diop fuses documentary and fantasy in this hauntingly beautiful portrait of Magaye Niang, star of her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1972 classic Touki-Bouki.

Synopsis

Actress and filmmaker Mati Diop fuses documentary and fantasy in this hauntingly beautiful portrait of Magaye Niang, star of her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1972 classic Touki-Bouki.

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A Thousand SunsDirected byMati Diop

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Awards & Festivals

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Toronto International Film Festival
2013
CPH:DOX
2013
BFI London Film Festival
2013
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
2014 | Winner: Short Film Grand Prize
2020

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Articles from the Notebook

Film Society Lincoln Center's The Art of the Real 2014

The invigorating interactions between camera and subject reverberate in the series’ challenging blur of “reality” and “fiction.”
Fernando F. Croce

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