
Overview
Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in South Africa
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Souleymane CisséWriter
- Original title
- Waati
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 7, 1995
- Original language
- Bambara
- Countries
- Mali, Burkina Faso, France

























