Burkina Faso Movies

Mailo is my village, where I was born in 1975. I'm Christian, my father is Muslim. Today, I no longer recognize my village, which is divided by religi...

Kigali, capital of Rwanda: a motor-bike taxi connects its passengers through the arteries, veins and vessels of the city, weaving a rhizome of relatio...

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 an...

After school closes, the street children roam the streets playing games, an inexhaustible source of learning. First larceny, street fights, the first...

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 De...

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

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

The film is homage to the powerful spirit of the 12th-century West African warrior princess, whose presence is still felt by women living there today....

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

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

Simon Panay’s film takes us into the world of Opio, a boy of 13 who works at a gold mine in Burkina Faso. As you might imagine, it’s a harsh existence...

The technological and the analogue world intersect in this fictional short film that draws a parallel between the old and the new, through the contras...