| Intro | Senegalese film director and screenwriter |
| Is |
Film director Screenwriter |
| From |
Senegal |
| Type |
Film, Television, Stage and Radio |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1952, Dakar, Senegal |
| Age: | 68 years |
Mansour Sora Wade (born 1952, in Dakar) is a Senegalese film director of Lebou people ancestry. He studied at Paris 8 University and went on to direct the audiovisual archives for the Senegalese Ministry of Culture, a job he held from 1977 to 1985. He began making short films in 1983. In 2002 he won the Tanit d’or.
Partial filmography
- 1983 : Contrastes (CM)
- 1989 : Fary l’ânesse (CM)
- 1990 : Taal Pexx
- 1992 : Picc Mi (CM)
- 1993 : Aida Souka
- 2002 : Ndeysaan ou Le Prix du pardon (LM)
- 2009 : Les feux de Mansaré