that he “wanted to make a response to an external perception, a perception by white technicians and academics, an alien perception." In 1995, he produced Waati (Time), which competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. In 2009, he filmed a comedy that talks about polygamy, inspired by his father, when he, his eight brothers, and his sister should leave their house in 1988. In the film, O Ka (Our House), he reminded the legal battle of his sisters when they were expelled from their house in Bamako. Cissé is president of UCECAO, the Union of Creators and Entrepreneurs of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts of Western Africa. His younger brother is film director Alioune Ifra Ndiaye. Legacy and style Souleymane Cissé is one of the most recognized African filmmakers of the twentieth century, and his work exemplifies the development of social realism in African cinema, including its eventual movement towards the recovery of tradition. Cissé has also been called "a master of complex storytelling, preserving the mysterious in the mundane." His films have been known for their uncompromising depictions of military violence, abuse of money and power, trade unionism, and the enduring stranglehold of patriarchal traditions over Bamako's women and youth. Filmography L’aspirant (short film, 1968) Source d’inspiration (short film, 1968) Dégal à Dialloubé (1970) Fête du Sanké (1971) Cinq jours d’une vie (1972) Den muso (1975) L’homme et ses idoles (short film, 1975) Baara (1978) Chanteurs traditionnels des Iles Seychelles (1978) Finye (1982) Yeelen (1987) Waati (1995) Tell Me Who You Are (2009) O Sembene! (2013) Our House (2015) References External links 1940 births Living people Malian film directors People from Bamako 21st-century Malian people