Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Waiting for Happiness
Waiting for Happiness( original title: Heremakono) is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako.
Main characters are a student, who has returned to his home in Nouadhibou, an electrician and his child apprentice, and the local women.
The film is characterized by a succession of scenes of the daily life of the characters which are unique to their particular African and Arab cultures, while borrowing from tropes of Tayeb Saleh's Season of Migration to the North( موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال).
The viewer must interpret the scenes without much help from narrator or plot, while the structure of the film hangs on a series of mundane but visually arresting moments, many of which are repeated in other works in Abderrahmane Sissako's opus, including scenes at a barber shop and a photo booth, also present in his earlier La Vie Sur Terre and later Timbuktu.
The film presents typical Mauritanian moments of beauty, struggle, alienation, and humor, which are experienced by groups socially divided from each other, such as Bidhan women drinking tea and gossiping, West African migrants passing through Mauritania to get to Europe( and finding an unsuccessful comrade washed ashore).
The young protagonist who has returned interacts with all of these groups as an outsider, as he struggles to remember even his own Hassaniya Arabic dialect, but prefers instead French.
Many of the themes and characters presage Sissako's 2014 film Timbuktu, and both explore liminal Sahel identities authentically situated in everyday life.
Waiting for Happiness premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
Cinesound Varieties
Cinesound Varieties is a 1934 Australian variety short film from director Ken G. Hall made to go out on a double-bill with the full-length feature, "The Silence of Dean Maitland" (1934).
Only 18 minutes of the film survive today.
Ken G. Hall
Kenneth George Hall, AO, OBE( 22 February 1901 – 8 February 1994), better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film producer and director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry.
He was the first Australian to win an Academy Award.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako( born 13 October 1961) is a Mauritanian- born Malian film director and producer.
His film" Waiting for Happiness Heremakono") was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection under Un Certain Regard, winning the FIPRESCI Prize.
His 2007 film" Bamako" received much attention.
Sissako's themes include globalisation, exile and the displacement of people.
His 2014 film" Timbuktu" was selected to compete for the Palme d' Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.

Question: Are both director of film Cinesound Varieties and director of film Waiting For Happiness from the same country?
Answer: no