Abdoulaye Ascofaré

Abdoulaye Ascofaré was born on 20 April 1949 in Gao, in northern Mali. A radio presenter until 1978, he then taught at the Institut national des arts in Bamako, and published a collection of poems in Bamako in 1976. After graduating in 1984 from the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, he joined the Centre national de production cinématographique as a director the following year, and made short films from 1991. No date of death is known for him.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmFaraw! Mother of the DunesFaraw ! Une mère des sablesAbdoulaye Ascofaré · 1997Cinema