Mariama Djité

Actor

Born in Zurich in 1988 as the daughter of a Senegalese artist and a Swiss architect. In 2008/09 she studied acting at the NYFA. After completing her Master's degree in Film Studies and German Studies at the University of Zurich (2016), she worked as an in-house writer/conceptualiser for a film production company. Today she is a freelance screenwriter and member of the ARF/FDS. In 2025 she was selected for the Cannes Series Writers' Club.

Filmography
(a selection)

Screenwriter

2025
Unsere kleine Botschaft by Johannes Bachmann, Johannes Schröder

Actor

2007
Breakout by Mike Eschmann
2006
Alles bleibt anders by Güzin Kar
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