Moussa Touré

Moussa Touré (* 1958 in Dakar , Senegal ) is a Senegalese film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Touré started out at a very young age as a helper and electrician in film productions. His first short film was made in 1987, his first feature film from 1991, Toubab Bi , won several awards. In 1987 he founded his own film production company, Les Films du Crocodile (Dakar) . In 1998 his film TGV won the Audience Award at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival . With the proceeds from the film productions, he was then able to make his documentaries. To date he has produced a dozen films and played a small role himself in the French film Les Caprices d'un fleuve by Bernard Giraudeau .

Touré is the founder of the Moussa invite film festival in Rufisque , Senegal, which supports the distribution of African documentaries. In 2011 he was elected President of the Jury for Documentaries at the Festival panafricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou FESPACO . In 2014 he was a jury member for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes International Film Festival .

Touré's film Die Piroge was broadcast on June 24, 2015 by the Franco-German TV channel arte .

Filmography

• 1991: Toubab Bi
• 1997: TGV-Express (TGV) , produced together with Bernard Giraudeau. Contributors: Makéna Diop , Bernard Giraudeau and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu . German distributor: Kairos Filmverleih .
• 2004/2005: 5 × 5 about a Senegalese family life.
• 2006: Nosaltres, documentary, 72 minutes, about two African peoples who ignore each other.
• 2012: Die Piroge (La Pirogue) , French-Senegalese-German co-production. She was invited to Un Certain Regard in Cannes 2012.

Prizes and awards

• 1999: Audience Award for TGV-Express at the 9th African Film Festival in Milan
• 2012: ARRI / Osram Award in Munich for Die Piroge

Web links

• Moussa Touré in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ No wages for fear in FAZ from June 5, 2013, page 29