Moussa Bathily (also Moussa Yoro Bathily, born in 1946) is a Senegalese history teacher, journalist, film director and producer, screen writer, and novelist.
Biography Born in Bakel, East Senegal, as the Soninke son of a provincial governor, Bathily studied at a French colonial school and at the Dakar Lycée Van Vollenhoven (later named Lamine-Guèye). Starting in 1968, he read history at the Cheikh Anta Diop University at Dakar and graduated on a thesis on Blaise Diagne, who was in 1914 the first West African member elected to the French Chamber of Deputies.Pfaff, 1988 Bathily worked for three years as a history teacher in Rufisque, West Senegal, and wrote film reviews for the Dakar newspaper Le Soleil. Returning to Dakar he met filmmakers such as Djibril Diop Mambety and Mahama Johnson Traoré at the forerunner of the later Institut Français du Sénégal and started directing realist short films and documentaries, and later features.
Novels Bathily published two novels in French:
Filmography Bathily's films include: Year Film Genre Role Duration (min) 1974 Centre International de Dakar Documentary short Director 21 m 1975 FIDAK(The International Fair of Dakar) Documentary short Director 20 m 1976 Des Personnages Encombrants (Translation: Book characters rebel against their author.)(Obstructing characters) Short fiction Director 25 m 1976 N'dakaru. Impressions matinales(Dakar Morning Impressions) Short Director and producer 20 m 1977 Ceddo by Ousmane Sembène Historical feature in French and Wolof Assistant director 120 m 1978 Tiyabu Biru (Circumcision) Drama feature in Soninke Director 85 m 1980 Dakar, Capitale et Ville Carrefour(Dakar, capital and crossroad city) Documentary short Director 1981 Siggy. La Poliomyelite Docufiction on polio vaccinationfor the United Nations Producer 40 m 1983 Le certificat d'indigence(Poverty Certificate) Short Director and screen writer 29 m 1983 Des Sites et Des Monuments au Sénégal(Sites and monuments in Senegal) Documentary Director 45 m 1987 Petits blancs au manioc et à la sauce gombos(White Beans with Cassava or Gombo Sauce) Drama feature Director and co-screen writerwith Roger Grullemin 90 m 1993 Biliyaane / L'Archer Bassari, after a crime novelby Drama feature Director and screen writer 90 m 2005 Atlantic Express Drama feature Director and producer 102 m
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