We met the formidable Aïssa Maïga a few days before the explosion of the 2020 Césars ceremony, where the actress courageously risked tackling the question of the inclusion of minorities on cinema screens. As we know, the reception in the room was frosty...
Revealed by her role in Russian dolls by Cédric Klapisch, the actress already has around fifty cinema or television films to her credit. Among them : Cache by Michael Haneke, Bamako by Abderrahmane Sissako, Welcome to Marly-Gomont by Julien Rambaldi, On the Marsupilami's trail by Alain Chabat or, more recently, He already has your eyes by Lucien Jean-Baptiste, a mini-series broadcast on France 2 based on the feature film of the same name.
Author of Black is not my job, an essay on the condition of black and mixed-race women in cinema, this powerful woman is currently making her second documentary which deals with the issue of lack of water in West Africa. Daughter of a Malian journalist assassinated in 1984 for political reasons, Aïssa Maïga spent her childhood in Paris, attended the Voltaire high school (11th) and spent a lot of time in the Marais. A place that “makes you vibrate,” she says.
