Burkina Faso Movies

Between Ouagadougou, Niamey, Kigali and Dakar, Éléonore Yameogo follows four African directors competing at the 2021 Ouagadougou...

An inside look at slavery in the country of Burkina Faso, The Courage Of Others follows the journey of a slave (played by Sotigui Kouyaté)...

In the first half of the 1990s, Drissa Touré was an auteur fast on the rise, with his first fiction feature, Laada (1991), celebrating its...

On a Monday morning in Berlin, Rachelle is driving home. Issaka, far away in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, writes her a message. Rachelle replies with...

Burkina Faso, West Africa. October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the even night’s silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Had the...

Congolese living in France for some thirty years, Papa Éric le tendre breathes and inspires good humor. From his danceable, swaying gait, to...

When Djénéba returns from the city where she has been visiting her cousin, she brings her husband, Konaté, a wonderful gift: a...

Young people call into question their village's customs and create an agricultural co-operative.

Suicide bombers are chosen by chance and their funeral rites accomplish the work of God. On this particular day the envoy of God is twelve -year-old...

Koudougou and Poko, a young couple, await the birth of their first child. Unfortunately, the pregnancy does not go well for Poko. First, the village...

In Ouagadougou, Konomba Traoré, master balafonist, introduces his son to the making and sanctification of a balafon. Material is transformed,...

A family welcomes a generous stranger into their home, but as his stay lengthens, tragedies begin to occur around them and suspicion grows.

When her mother died in childbirth, eight-year-old Safi found herself with a newborn in her arms, taken away from the village that, according to an...

In a desert savannah, two children named Kodou and Tano meet the caretaker of a century-old tree that a contractor wants to cut down. Seeking their...

A close-knit family shelters a generous stranger whose stay lingers. As nearby tragedies emerge, suspicion grows. When the eldest joins a defense...

In a village in Burkina Faso, an old peasant discovers diamonds that will prove harmful to anyone who approaches them too closely. The Ministry of...

“Abdoulaye Mamani, a militant and trade unionist, journalist, engaged writer, led a lifelong struggle for people’s freedom and the...

The animated short film tells the story of Yacouba Sawadogo. It evokes the limits of so-called “modern” production systems, which are...