Anne-Laure Folly, from Togo, is one of Africa's few female filmmakers, yet one of its finest. After winning the Silver Medal at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 1994 for her documentary Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts, she established herself as a documentarist with a vision for representing African issues from across the continent: her first film revealed women from Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal speaking about the joys and difficulties of their lives; her latest film "Sarah Maldoror ou La Nostalgie de l'Utopie (1998)" is a tribute to another "African" female filmmaker, Sarah Maldoror, who attended the Second Cambridge African film festival in 2003 to show her classic film Sambizanga (1972). (09/09)

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FILMOGRAPHY
1992 - Le Gardien des forces. Video, 52 min., documentary
1993 - Femmes du Niger. Video, 26 min., documentary.
1993 - L'Or du Liptako. Video, 13 min.
1994 - Femmes aux yeux ouverts. Video, 52 min., documentary.
1995 - Les Amazones se sont reconverties. Video, 13 min., documentary.
1996 - From the Tree to the Dugout (Entre l'arbre et la pirogue). 52 min., documentary.
1996 - Femmes d'Angola, rêver la Paix, documentary.
1996 - Projet Sambizanga, documentary.
1997 - Les Oubliées. 16mm, 52 min., documentary.
1998 - Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie. 16mm/35mm, 26 min., documentary.
1999 - Déposez les Lames. 25 min., documentary.
2000 - L'une l'est l'autre pas, documentary.