Aïssa Maïga
Birthday: Born in 1975-05-25 in Dakar, Sénégal
Deathday: Alive
Aïssa Maïga is a Senegal-born French actress, director, writer, producer, and activist. Maïga has worked with major auteurs like Michael Haneke, Abderrahmane Sissako and Michel Gondry, and recently starred in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut.
TV Credits
Neuf Meufs
Character: Sylvia
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Exterminate All the Brutes
Character:
Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today....
Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
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Burger Quiz
Character: Self
A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host....
Cherchez la femme !
Character: (voice)
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Piquantes !
Character: Self - Guest
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Suite noire
Character: Sara
Step into a world of seedy seduction, sinister plots, bloody murder, and hard vengeance: the pulp-fueled realm of "Suite Noire."...
Toussaint Louverture
Character: Suzanne
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages......
Le rêve français
Character: Doris Trésor
In the 60s, the Government encourages Islanders to leave the French West Indies to escape poverty that results from the closure of sugar mills. Lured by the idea of a "dream country", they find life in Europe is not what they had imagined....
The Fear Index
Character: Marieme Sagnane
Dr. Alex Hoffman, an American ex-pat physicist, creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But on the day of launch, Alex’s sanity is shaken after he is viciously attacked at his home by a man who knows all of his security codes. After more unexplained occurrences, Alex becomes convinced he’s being framed....
Il a déjà tes yeux
Character: Salimata Aloka
When Sali and Paul Aloka, a Black couple, adopted Benjamin, their white son, they knew they were heading into unchartered territory, right until the day Benjamin announces he wants to meet his birth parents....
Taken Down
Character: Abeni Bankole
Taken Down is a crime drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us into a twilight world of the new Ireland where slum landlords and criminals prey on the vulnerable....
Commissaire Moulin
Character: Dolly
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes....
Les Cordier, juge et flic
Character: Aline
The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist....
Movie Credits
Caché
Character: Chantal
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time....
Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Character: Léa
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father....
Paris Je T'aime
Character: Sophie (Place des Fêtes)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice....
Russian Dolls
Character: Kassia
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite....
Diamond 13
Character: Farida
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers....
Crossfire
Character: Kathia
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again....
Neuf meufs - Le film
Character: Sylvia
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The Age of Man
Character: Tina
Samuel is 30. Formerly a confirmed bachelor, he has been living with Tina – a photographer – for the past year but he gets scared when it’s time to commit. So he gives himself 24 hours to decide whether or not to break up with the woman he loves, convinced she will leave him sooner or later. By his side, Samuel can count on Jorge and Mounir, his usual confidants....
L'Aide Au Retour
Character: La fonctionnaire
Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avoid being evicted, the State proposes them a grant if they go back to their country of orgine, the one from which fled....
My Children Are Different
Character: Myriam
A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes....
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Character: Anna
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex....
Together Is Too Much
Character: Clémentine
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what happens to Marie-France, when her husband, Henri, pulls out panties from his pocket to be used as a handkerchief. Marie-France becomes furious, storming out of the house. His son, Sebastian and his wife, Clementine, a struggling couple, decide to take Marie-France to their tiny apartment, something they feel it is a temporary arrangement. Little d...
Black and White
Character: Nadine
Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman....
The Counsel
Character: Eve
A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him....
One Stays, the Other Leaves
Character: Farida
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman....
Today
Character: Nella
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life....
I Do
Character: Kirsten Hansen, l'assistante de la directrice
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!...
Big Kids
Character: Aude
Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents....
Mood Indigo
Character: Alise
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs....
Le temps de la kermesse est terminé
Character: Martina
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Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow
Character: Lila
It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lila. Over the course of six months, the couple meet a number of interesting people, including Irina, an exiled Russian actress, as well as spending their time with Jonah’s sister Cecile and his filmmaking mentor Anziano. The discussions Jonah has with these friends and strangers help him to gain some perspective on his life and the new millennium....
Aya of Yop City
Character: Aya
While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Their ambition is to follow Plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! But big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country....
Anything for Alice
Character: Alice
Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated series of social contortions to get close to Alice, now a politically motivated factory worker....
Maria Schneider, 1983
Character: Maria Schneider
In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972)....
Impatientes
Character: Dr Milleux
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Toussaint Louverture
Character: Suzanne
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages......
Deadly Summer
Character: Julie
A woman's plans to leave her husband and follow her lover abroad are thrown into turmoil when murder strikes....
Le Marchand de sable
Character: Félicité
Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to find them a place to live. But faced with the growing demand and with the prospect of offering a decent life to his daughter, Djo switches and becomes a sleep merchant....
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Character: La conteuse (voice)
Three tales, three ages, three worlds. At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one. During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor. In 18th-century Turkey, a prince of pastries and a princess of roses escape the palace to live their love....
Neneh Superstar
Character: Martine
Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redouble her efforts to escape from her condition and be accepted by the director of the school, Marianne Bellage, the guarantor of traditions and the bearer of a secret that links her to the little ballerina....
Pas de toit sans moi
Character: Ashanti
She is a black illegal immigrant, he's white and unemployed - Both of them are racists and they hate each other, but a fake wedding could solve both their problems. Ashanti wouldn't be sent back to her country and Paul would find a job....
Marie-Line
Character: Malika
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, ...
Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
Character: Amina
An extramarital affair leads to Hortense’s separation from her very traditional African husband, who is in for a ride as he learns about her love affair, his eldest son’s secret love life, and the responsibilities of single parenthood....
Bamako
Character: Melé
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants....
The African Doctor
Character: Anne Zantoko
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain the trust of the prejudiced villagers....
He Even Has Your Eyes
Character: Salimata 'Sali' Aloka
Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for so long: their adoption file is approved. He is adorable, he is 6 months old, his name is Benjamin. He is blond with blue eyes and white. They - are black....
Code Unknown
Character: Black Girl with Blonde Hair
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher....
Lucy's Revenge
Character: Lucy
After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time h...
Corniche Kennedy
Character: Awa
Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them....
Love Is Dead
Character: Léane Marciano, conseillère conjugale
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery
Character: Henriette
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery....
Quand la ville mord
Character: Sara
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HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
Character: Clarisse Iris
When reporter Dan Geraldo (Alain Chabat) arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery... With his resourceful local guide Pablito (Jamel Debbouze), D an has one surprise after another during a thrilling adventure that allows him to bring the world some spectacular news: the Marsupilami, a mythical and mischievous animal, really does exist! You too will believe in furry tails!...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Character: Agnes Kamkwamba
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine....
Brother
Character: Claude
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules....
Une famille parfaite
Character: Martha
Martha is 30 years old in 2031. She spent a happy childhood in a family not quite like the others since she was adopted by two men. Now, one of them is dead and the other is losing his memory...
The Bathers
Character: Rita's sister
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show. Governed by their overprotective boss, the girls' routine of glittery neon lights and lecherous customers is soon disrupted when an enigmatic stranger enters the scene. Now, drugs, sex and bickering all take a back seat as the girls unite to save this man haunted by a mysterious past and unforgiving demons. A fascinating glimpse into a wo...
Pygmalionnes
Character: Self - Actrice
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Où sont les noirs ?
Character: Self
French actors Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland, Deborah Lukumuena, Marie-France Malonga, Gary Dourdan and others speak up on the reality of black actors in the French movie industry....
The Tower
Character: Tante Hannan (voice)
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories....
Above the Sky
Character: Marion
After losing the use of her legs in an plane crash at 18, Dorine earns her pilot's license and dedicates herself to advocating for disability rights....
Pop féminisme : des militantes aux icônes pop
Character: Narrator
An overview of 21st-century feminism through the lens of pop culture....
Par accident
Character: Constance
Isabelle Blanc, a 30 years old biologist who works at the university, awakes in an hospital and doesn't remember why she is in the hospital.Little by little the doctor explains her that she had an accident driving by night under the rain and that accident provoked the death of a person.After her work Isabelle met her companion Vincent and then went alone by car: Vincent called her by cell phone, they spoke about their future and Vincent wanted that Isabelle listens to to a song; then came the cr...
The Listening Tapes
Character: Maria Schneider
In three reenactments of a controversial 1983 television interview, actors Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval play late French actress Maria Schneider. “The Listening Takes” is a prescient confrontation with the patriarchal structure of the film industry. [Overview Courtesy of Participant Inc.]...