Directing

Djigui Diarra

Place of birth

Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Djigui Diarra grew up in Grigny, in the Paris suburbs. As a child, he spent his time watching Hong Kong movies with his father. Today, he is inspired by directors such as Ken Loach, Souleymane Cissé, Spike Lee, or John Woo to create his own universe in his films. As an actor, Djigui played in the series Julie Lescaut, Fabrice Gobert's film K.O, and Raoul Peck's The Young Karl Marx. Djigui has directed three short films, Utopia (France television prize) Na tout pour elle (purchased by TV5 Monde) and recently Malgré eux selected at the Cannes Film Festival.

Known for

Le Marchand de sable poster
6.0

Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to find them a place to live. But faced with the growing demand and with the prospect of offering a decent life to his daughter, Djo switches and becomes a sleep merchant.

Le Marchand de sable

2023

The Young Karl Marx poster
6.8

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.

The Young Karl Marx

2017

K.O. poster
5.4

A CEO for a television channel finds his life torn apart after he wakes up from coma.

K.O.

2017

Malgré eux poster
NR

In the french neighbourhood of Rosières, a police officer shot a mother during an intervention. Since then, Mory, Toussaint, and Ali, the victim's son, have been trying to continue living.

Malgré eux

2019

Allô Houston poster
NR

A disillusioned cop, used to crisscrossing the nearby suburbs of Paris, confronts himself during the lockdown with a man he had misjudged. The police officer's arrest turns into intimidation and violence. This meeting will call into question his profession and his life.

Allô Houston

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Na tout pour elle poster
NR

The story of a son who would do everything to fulfill his mother's last wish: to die in Mali.

Na tout pour elle

2016

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2010s · 6 titles

Behind the camera