Djibril Kouyaté

Djibril Kouyaté (Arabic: جبريل كوياتي born 1942), is a Malian filmmaker and actor. He is best known as the director of critically acclaimed feature films such as The return of Tieman, Tiefing and Walaha.

He was born in 1942 in Bamako, Mali.

In 1969, he made the maiden directorial debut with l'artisanat. Then he made the film Le retour de Tieman (1970), Le drapeau noir au sud du berceau (1976) and Le Mali aujourd'hui (1978). As an actor, he acted in the films: Verloren Maandag (1974), Ta Dona (1991), and Macadam tribu (1999). In 2000, he acted in the critically acclaimed film Code inconnu in which his character as 'Youssouf' was highly praised.