Cannes Directors’ Fortnight to honor Cissé with Carrosse d’Or award
Screen Daily – Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will receive the Carrosse d’Or award of the French directors guild La Société des Réalisateurs (SRF) at the 55th edition of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight strand which runs May 16-27.
The director will be honored with the award, which recognizes filmmakers for their “innovative qualities”, at the opening ceremony on May 17.
Cisse’s career has spanned over 50 years with his work having screened at Cannes six times. His 1987 drama ‘Yelen’ picked up the jury prize at the festival when it played in competition.
SRF board members signed a letter to Cissé that read: “Blending poetry and politics, social criticism and mythology, both rooted in the multisecular culture of your country, Mali, and open to the world in its pluriversal dimension, your body of work has made a deep mark on our cinephilia. (…) Your courage, so remarkable if we think about the dictatorial political climate in which you directed your first three feature films, ‘Den Muso,’ ‘Baara’ and ‘Finye, fills us with admiration.”