Waati · 1995

Time

Souleymane Cissé · 140 min · Mali

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.

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Awards

2 nominations

Production companies

Les Films Cissé, DIPROCI, Erato Films, Renn Productions

Locations

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Setting

Sudáfrica

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Cast

• Linèo Tsolo

  Nandi

• Sidi Yaya Cissé

  Solofa

• Eric Miyeni

  The father

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  Mary Twala

  Grandmother

• Nakedi Ribane

  The mother

• Mariame Amerou Mohamed Dicko

  Nandi at 6 years

• Balla Moussa Keita

  Teacher

• Adam Rose

  Killer Policeman