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Raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood and attended secondary school in Dakar, before returning to Mali in 1960 after national independence. His film career began as an assistant projectionist for a documentary on the arrest of Patrice Lumumba and in 1970 he returned to Mali once more, and joined the Ministry of Information as a cameraman, where he produced documentaries and short films. In 1972, he produced his first medium-length film, Cinq jours d’une vie and two years later he completed his first full-length film in the Bambara language, Den muso, the story of a young mute girl who had been raped, becomes pregnant, and is rejected both by her family and by the child’s father. Sadly Den Muso was banned by the Malian Minister of Culture, and Cissé was arrested and jailed for having accepted French funding.

Between that time and the early...

Happy birthday Quebec! I normally offer you a quiz that allows you to test your knowledge about Quebec's History and culture. Today, I rather decided to tell you which Quebecker novels deserve to be adapted to the big screen:

#1: De Niro's Game, by Rawi Hage

It's official: this novel Will head to the big screen. Despite the Hollywood-like ending, De Niro's Game openly talks about the Lebanese Civil War while a film like Incendies takes place in an unnamed Arabic country during what Appears to be the Lebanese Civil War.

#2: Le libraire (Not for Every Eye), by Gérard Bessette

Published in 1960, this magnificent novel depicts so well the cowardice of Quebec's intelligentsia during the Great Darkness, a time when the Catholic Church reigned over the province.

#3: L'énigme du retour, by Dany Laferrière

Although Dany Laferrière is an idiot who doesn't consider himself as a Quebecker (or a...