Genesis (French: La genèse) is a 1999 French-Malian drama film directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko.

In her Variety review, Deborah Young described the film as "one of the more challenging viewing experiences at Cannes this year ...

So dense and poetic is Jean-Louis Sagot-Durvauroux's screenplay and so relentlessly African the idiom that viewers, like Noah, often find themselves adrift in high water.

[2] Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it a "confused allegorical meditation on the region's simmering tribal conflicts".

[1] Kevin Hagopian, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Pennsylvania State University, dissented, calling it a "masterwork of the modern diasporic cinema movement".