Directing
Community Rating
6.3
TMDB estimate
Born in
Dakar, Senegal
Moussa Sène Absa was born in 1958 in Senegal. After starting a career as an actor, he has won awards for his short films, documentaries, and features. He is also a painter and author. He exemplifies the “homo senegalensis”, an ideal of an artist, which was dear to Léopold Sédar Senghor, rooted in tradition but fully willing to use what the Western world has to offer. Ironically, Absa is more famous internationally than he is in his own country despite exposure to a large audience in Senegal through the TV series Goorgoorlu, written by TT Fons and produced by the national Senegalese television (RTS). His first film Le Prix du mensonge (The Price of Lies) earned him the Tanit d'Argent (Silver Tanit) at the Journées cinématographiques de Carthage (Carthage Film Festival) in 1988. Tableau Ferraille, released in 1996, earned him several awards including Best Cinematography at FESPACO in 1997. (Source: Through African Eyes - Dialogues with the Directors, BONETTI Mahen and REDDY Prerana (Editors), 2003, African Film Festival, Inc. and Printinfo JV LLC, Yerevan, Armenia, p.84)
Xalé
as Writer, Director, Original Music Composer
2023
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Black and White
as Director
2020
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Yoole, The Sacrifice
as Director
2010
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Téranga Blues
as Director
2007
—Ngoyaan, le chant de la séduction
as Writer, Director
2004
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Madame Brouette
as Director, Writer
2002
—(Paris: XY)
2002
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And So Angels Die
as Mory, Director
2001
—Blues pour une diva
as Director
1999
—Jëf Jël
as Director
1998
—Tableau Ferraille
as Writer, Director
1997
—Yalla Yaana
as Director
1995
—Rocking Poponguine
as Editor, Director, Writer
1994
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10,000 Years of Cinema
1991
—Ken Bugul
as Director
1990
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