Films set in Mali

2022 film directed by Ryan Coogler

2005 film directed by Breck Eisner

2014 film by Abderrahmane Sissako

Yeelen (Bambara for "brightness"/"light") is a 1987 Malian film written, directed and produced by Souleymane Cissé. It is filmed in the Bambara and Fula languages, and is based on a legend told by the Bambara people. Though the era is undefined, it is presumably set in the 13th century in the Mali Empire and is a heroic quest narrative featuring magic and precognition.

2006 film by Abderrahmane Sissako

2007 film by James Moll

1998 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako

1995 film directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko

1959 U.S. black-and-white adventure film directed by Jacques Tourneur

Wùlu, the Malian Scarface is a 2016 Malian crime drama film directed by Marseille-born French-Malian director Daouda Coulibaly and co-produced by Éric Névé and Oumar Sy. The film stars Ibrahim Koma and Inna Modja with Quim Gutiérrez, Olivier Rabourdin, and Ndiaye Ismaël in supporting roles. The film is about Ladji, a 20-year-old van driver in Mali who becomes a West African drug lord during the 2012 Mali War. He started committing crimes so that his older sister could quit working as a prostitute.

1994 film by Anne-Laure Folly