PLANET AFRICA will open with a tribute by the Museum to Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako. The showcase is part of the CreativAfrica framework.

This opening showcase in the month of October will offer a tribute to the cinema of Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, known for his recent success with Timbuktu, a poet of uprooting and travel in the most diverse formats – from a filmed, almost documentary diary to fiction film – and the author of a handful of feature-length films in which Africa stands out through its colours, its light, its stories and the slow and thoughtful rhythm of its characters. His work, devoid of nationality, between Europe and Africa, has been able to give voice to a Mauritanian cinematography, one of the poorest in the African continent.

The showcase, which is part of the broader CreativAfrica framework, will be inaugurated by the screening of the film Bamako, which will be presented to the public by film critic Giuseppe Gariazzo, on Friday 2 October at 8.30 p.m. on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. Admission 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.