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Adama Drabo

Adama Drabo

Country: Mali

Biography: Adama Drabo was born in Bamako, Mali. Even as a child, he dreamt of films, but first worked for ten years as a rural teacher. In his free time, he painted and wrote plays. In 1979, he passed the entrance examination for the "Centre National de Production Cinématographique" (CNPC) of Mali. He became Assistant Director for the films "Nyamanton" (1986) and "Finzan" (1989), by Cheick Oumar Sissoko. At the same time, he filmed his own, medium-length film "Nieba, la journée d'une paysanne" (1988). His first full-length motion picture, "Ta Dona" (1991) was immediately nominated for the Golden Lion in Locarno. He was awarded prizes in Cannes, Tokio, Ougadougou and Namur for "Taafé Fanga" (1997).

Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Director), 3 (Writer)

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    Taafé Fanga
    Taafé Fanga (1997)
    A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women. (imdb)
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    Ta Dona
    Ta Dona (1993)
    Ta Dona is the story of a quest for secret knowledge by a young hero, Sidy, a modern agronomist working for the Ministry of Rivers and Forests. It revisits a perennial African theme also at the center of Yeelen: the responsibility to use expert knowledge (traditional and now scientific) for the communal good not personal power.
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    Fantan Fanga
    Fantan Fanga (2009)
    An albino villager is decapitated by a gang of headhunters. The latter take his head to a local witchdoctor who believes that albino body parts can make people rich or potent. The headhunters believe the head can make them rich. The other villagers believe that the entire country will be cursed if he is buried without his head.
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