Djibril Diop Mambéty

Biography

Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.

Known For

Badou Boy

Hyenas

Contras' City

The Death Knell

10,000 Years of Cinema

Mambéty

Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane

Grandma's Grammar

All Movies (10)

• Cinema is Magic2023 · as Self
• Mambéty For Ever2008 · as Self
• Mambéty2002 · as Self
• Grandma's Grammar1996 · as Himself
• Hyenas1992 · as The Judge
• Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane1991
• 10,000 Years of Cinema1991
• Badou Boy1970
• Contras' City1969
• The Death Knell1964 · as Narrator