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Moolaadé
MEANRANK
82/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 69, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 99. Critics average 95, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Details
- Director
- Ousmane Sembène
- Writer
- Ousmane Sembène
- Studio
- Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International, Fonds Sud Cinéma, Centre Cinématographique Marocain, Cinétéléfilms
- Released
- 4 August 2004
- Country
- Burkina Faso, Cameroon, France, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia
- Language
- Bambara
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Box office
- $214.6K
- Awards
- 5 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 10 →1 major award won · 5 wins from 10 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 2004 | Prix Un Certain Regard | Winner | |
| Cinemanila International Film Festival 2005 | Best actress | Fatoumata Coulibaly | Winner |
| Image Awards 2005 | Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film | Nominee | |
| Pan-African Film Festival 2005 | jury award | Ousmane Sembène | Winner |
| European Film Awards 2004 | Screen International Award | Ousmane Sembène | Nominee |
| Marrakech International Film Festival 2004 | Golden Star | Ousmane Sembène | Nominee |
| Marrakech International Film Festival 2004 | Special Jury Award | Ousmane Sembène | Winner |
| National Society of Film Critics Awards 2004 | Best Foreign Language Film | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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10 awards — Moolaadé
×| Prix Un Certain Regard | Winner |
| Special Jury Award | Ousmane Sembène | Winner |
| Golden Star | Ousmane Sembène | Nominee |
| Best actress | Fatoumata Coulibaly | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Winner |
| jury award | Ousmane Sembène | Winner |
| Award for Democracy | Nominee | |
| Award for Human Rights | Nominee |
| Screen International Award | Ousmane Sembène | Nominee |
| Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film | Nominee |