Abdoulaye Ascofaré (born April 20, 1949, in Gao) is a Malian poet and
filmmaker.Ascofaré was a radio host until 1978, when he became a
teacher at the Institut National des Arts in Bamako. In 1984, he
received a diploma in film studies from the All-Union State Institute
of Cinematography (now the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) in
Moscow and, in 1985, he joined the Centre National de Production
Cinématographique in Bamako as a director.Beginning in 1991, he
produced several short films and, in 1997, he produced his first
full-length film, Faraw, une mère des sables (Faraw, a mother of the
sands), which retraces twenty-four hours in the life of a Songhaï
woman. Faraw won the Golden Bayard for Artistic Creation at the 1997
Namur Film festival.As a poet, he has published Domestiquer le rêve
(Domesticating the Dream).
filmmaker.Ascofaré was a radio host until 1978, when he became a
teacher at the Institut National des Arts in Bamako. In 1984, he
received a diploma in film studies from the All-Union State Institute
of Cinematography (now the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) in
Moscow and, in 1985, he joined the Centre National de Production
Cinématographique in Bamako as a director.Beginning in 1991, he
produced several short films and, in 1997, he produced his first
full-length film, Faraw, une mère des sables (Faraw, a mother of the
sands), which retraces twenty-four hours in the life of a Songhaï
woman. Faraw won the Golden Bayard for Artistic Creation at the 1997
Namur Film festival.As a poet, he has published Domestiquer le rêve
(Domesticating the Dream).
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