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Filmmaker · Mali

Kalifa Dienta

Died in 2021

Kalifa Dienta was born on 1 January 1940 in Macina. After the teacher-training course at Sévaré and the Askia-Mohamed lycée in Bamako, he obtained a scholarship to the Moscow film school, where he mixed with Souleymane Cissé, and stayed on for some time in the Soviet Union to train. On returning to Mali, he joined the Centre national de production cinématographique, where he made documentaries and commissioned films for companies in the country. He died at home in Bamako on 8 June 2021 and was buried the next day in Macina.

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