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Makena Diop

Activities : Actor

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (7 films)

You Will Be a Man (2008)

Director : Olivier Dujols
Actors : Makena Diop, Ibtissem Guerda, Pascal Rénéric, Mahmoud Saïd
Associate production company : Carlito
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Three stories interweave around a character called Yamina. This young businesswoman has forgotten her modest origins, choosing instead to bury herself in her professional responsibilities. Mohammed, her elderly, lonely father, no...

Dreams of Dust (2006)

Director : Laurent Salgues
Actors : Makena Diop, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Fatou Tall-Salgues, Joseph B. Tapsoba, Souleymane Zouré
Associate production company : Athénaïse

Hero (The) (2005)

Director : Zézé Gamboa
Actors : Makena Diop, Milton Coelho, Neusa Borges, Patrícia Bull, Maria Ceiça
Associate production company : Les Films de l'Après-Midi
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : A country: Angola. A city: Luanda. A man whose memories are haunted by war. Forced to join the Angolan army when he was fifteen years old, Vitorio is demobolized after almost twenty years of fighting. He’s lost a leg after...

Souli (2004)

Director : Alexander Abela
Actors : Eduardo Noriega, Aurélien Recoing, Makena Diop, Fatou N'Diaye, Jeanne Antébi
Associate production company : Blue Eye Films
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Carlos, a Spanish student, arrives in Africa looking for Souli, a famous African author who has chosen to live far from the public eye in an isolated fishing village. Souli knows an ancestral tale that is only passed down orally...

Battu (2000)

Director : Cheick Oumar Sissoko
Actors : Isaach de Bankolé, Félicité Wouassi, Makena Diop, Danny Glover
Associate production company : British, Emet Films
Synopsis : Battu tells the tale of a politician a mite too ambitious, who should have thought twice before casting out the beggars from the City… For, in a country where giving alms is a divine obligation, everyone knows that Allah is vital...