31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

MILLE SOLEILS

MILLE SOLEILS
by Mati Diop
Country: France
Year: 2013
Duration: 45'


In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shot Touki Bouki - Journey of the Hyena, a masterpiece of Senegalese cinema. In the movie, Mory and Anta are in love and they share the dream of leaving Dakar. They try everything to find the money, but when they are finally about to leave Mory backs out, letting Anta leave by herself. Forty years later, A Thousand Suns reflects on what has happened in the meantime to the film’s main actors: Magaye Niang (who played Mory) never left Dakar, while Myriam Niang ended up in Alaska working on an oil rig. The two characters’ stories intertwine and, along with tales of exile, weave together a dimension that transcends private and universal categories.

Biography

film director

Mati Diop

Mati Diop (Paris, France, 1982) is the daughter of the musician Wasis Diop and niece of the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety. She studied at Le Fresnoy and at the Pavillon, the experimental laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris. She then directed several short films and short features, winning the Tiger Award in Rotterdam for Atlantiques (2010) and Big in Vietnam (2012). She participated to the 2011 Venice Film Festival (in the Horizons section) with her movie Snow Canon, which was also selected by several other international festivals. She has also played the female protagonist in 35 Shots of Rum (made by Claire Davis), winning the best actress award at the MK2 Young Talent Festival in 2009; she also won a special mention at AFI Fest for her performance in Simon Killer by Antonio Campos.In 2013 Mille soleils was presented at Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Atlantiques (cm, 2009), Snow Canon (mm, 2011), Big in Vietnam (mm, 2012), Mille Soleils (mm, 2013), Liberian Boy (coregia/codirector Manon Lutanie, cm, 2015).

Declaration

film director

“I got the idea for this movie talking with my father. I was asking him questions about my family and about the role that cinema played in my life. He told me about my uncle, Djibril Diop Mambety, and about Journey of the Hyena, and how my grandfather said it contained our entire story. This made me want to discover the movie’s story, to find out where it came from and the traces it left.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Mati Diop
FOTOGRAFIA
Hélène Louvart, Mati Diop
MONTAGGIO
Nicolas Milteau
SUONO
Alioune Mbow, Bruno Ehlinger
INTERPRETI
Magaye Niang
PRODUTTORE
Corinne Castel
PRODUZIONE
Anna Sanders Films
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