Aïssa Maïga
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

The Court
(2006)Her marriage on the rocks, cabaret singer Mele returns home after a degrading night of work and finds her apartment complex made into a tribunal in which the institutions of international capitalism are put on trial. Her sister stands with peasants, farmers, and other citizens, appealing to the banking cabal for justice. A long night in pursuit of justice and a sultry evening of Malian life.

Aya of Yop City
(2013)
He Even Has Your Eyes
(2017)Paul and Sali Aloka, a Black couple, have a white adopted son, Benjamin, and a biological son, Noé. They might not look like an ordinary family, but they’re happy—until Paul’s father shows up and prompts Benjamin to search for his birth parents.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
(2019)Inspired by a science book, 13-year-old William Kamkwamba builds a wind turbine to save his Malawian village from famine. Based on a true story.
Brother
(2019)Taken Down
In this gripping Irish crime drama,when a Nigerian girl is killed,Inspector Jen Rooney(Lynn Rafferty,Ripper Street)and her team investigate a refugee community,where young mother Abeni Bankole(Aïssa Maïga,Paris,je t’aime)may know more than she lets on.After another child disappears,can the cops find the missing girl before she becomes a casualty of Dublin’s dangerous underground?

Mood Indigo
(2013)In a surreal Paris setting, a whimsical bachelor falls for and tries to heal a woman who shares his passions, but has a flower growing in her lungs.

The Tower
(2018)Beirut, Lebanon, Today. Wardi lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. When her great-grandfather, Sidi, gives her the key to his old house, she fears he may have lost hope of someday going home.