Fatoumata Diawara

Acting

Fatoumata Diawara

Born

1982-01-01 (44)

Place of birth

Ouragahio, Ivory Coast

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

Born in 19822, Fatoumata Diawara spent her early years in Abidjan in a large family. Her mother is a dancer. His father runs an association of traditional shows. He introduced her to dance and the guitar. At the age of 9, after the sudden death of an older sister, she was adopted by her actress aunt who lives in Mali. In 1997, Fatoumata Diawara was spotted by the filmmaker Cheick Oumar Sissoko who hired her in the film La Genèse (prize "Un certain regard" at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999) in order to interpret the leading female role. In 1998, she left for France to work at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord on Jean-Louis Sagot-Duvauroux's adaptation of the play Antigone. She appeared in sev…

Known for

Quotidien poster
5.1

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

Quotidien

2016

Later... with Jools Holland poster
5.9

Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland.

Later... with Jools Holland

1992

C à vous poster
6.1

Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

C à vous

2009

Victoires de la musique poster
3.3

No synopsis available yet.

Victoires de la musique

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hamburg Journal

2011

Yao poster
6.6

From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.

Yao

2019

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Angélique Kidjo : 40 ans de carrière poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Angélique Kidjo : 40 ans de carrière

2025

Une journée avec Balavoine poster
NR

Under the musical direction of Nach (Anna Chedid) , more than twenty artists gathered to celebrate Balavoine for a day in magnificent locations in Biarritz, the city where he grew up and to which he maintained lifelong ties. They all shared one thing in common: without Daniel Balavoine, they would not have become the artists they are today.

Une journée avec Balavoine

2024

Fatoumata Diawara à l'Olympia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fatoumata Diawara à l'Olympia

2025

Fatoumata Diawara : carte blanche poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fatoumata Diawara : carte blanche

2022

We Are One poster
5.8

Activists around the world fight injustice and drive social change in this documentary that follows their participation in the music video "Solidarité."

We Are One

2020

Gorillaz | Song Machine Live From Kong poster
5.5

The set features songs from the Song Machine project, along with some revered classics from the group’s back catalogue. The full Gorillaz live band, plus a choice selection of featured artists, showcasing their first live performance since 2018. This special presentation also features a pre-show programme and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.

Gorillaz | Song Machine Live From Kong

2021

Lamomali avec -M- aux Francofolies de La Rochelle poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lamomali avec -M- aux Francofolies de La Rochelle

2025

Fatoumata Diawara - Libre et rebelle poster
NR

Singer, stage magician, actress, political influencer: a multi-talented artist, Fatoumata Diawara embodies many contemporary struggles. The documentary shows the importance of her music and its influence on African social life. Portrait of a multifaceted woman.

Fatoumata Diawara - Libre et rebelle

2024

2010s · 8 titles

Yao poster
6.6

From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.

Yao

2019

Timbuktu poster
7.0

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.

Timbuktu

2014

Tales of the Night poster
7.3

Six exotic fables, each unfold in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the Land of the Dead.

Tales of the Night

2011

Mali Blues poster
5.0

Mali's Music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop - Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyaté Master Soumy and Ahmed Ag Kaedi - we embark on a musical journey to Mali's agitated heart. Can their music reconcile the country?

Mali Blues

2016

Angélique Kidjo aux Concerts Volants poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Angélique Kidjo aux Concerts Volants

2019

Morbayassa poster
NR

Bella, a 30-year-old Guinean cabaret singer, lives a miserable, dangerous life as a prostitute in Dakar. Though she longs for escape, a gang of pimps, led by Kèba, treat her like property and make sure she keeps in her place. Her only hope is the thought of earning enough money to escape and reunite with her daughter, who she gave up at birth at age 15—a desperate act that haunts Bella’s nightmares and fills her with guilt. While fleeing an angry client, she meets Yélo, a Guinean worker for the United Nations, who happens to be passing through Dakar. Instantly smitten, Yélo agrees to help Bella, and so begins an epic journey of redemption, from Guinea to Paris. But can the young couple escape the clutches of the menacing Kèba?

Morbayassa

2014

Taratata fête ses 25 ans 100% live au Zénith poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Taratata fête ses 25 ans 100% live au Zénith

2017

Soleils poster
4.0

An old man is entrusted in curing a young girl struck by amnesia. He takes her on a healing trip, eccentric and joyous, to Ouagadougou by way of the Cape, Berlin, Mali, Belgium… In their travels full of surprises, they meet characters both remarkable and luminous, or ignorant, with set ideas, some fabulous creatures, and a text hidden deep in a continent that reveals a well-kept secret: Africa has something to tell us.

Soleils

2014

2000s · 2 titles

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