Burkina Faso Movies

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This...

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

For Lickma, Bienvenue, Mathilde and Victor life is one of financial insecurity. Taking inspiration from a close friend, they let Herman get them...

It's celebration time in the West African Republic: the national team, the Phacochères, have qualified for the World Cup final. To avoid...

In Burkina Faso, against the backdrop of advancing jihadist forces, Natie, a troubled teenager, discovers that her grandmother married a man she did...

Directed by Mustapha Diop.

An African student stranded in Paris after losing his government grant discovers a bag of drugs and money while working as a parking garage attendant.

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...

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in...

In a fictional West African town, black-on-black political corruption exists "from the bedroom to the president's palace" as a mother fights for...

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...

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

Nongma, a ten-year-old girl, goes to join her grandmother in a remote village. An official offers to send Nongma's grandmother to school, but she...

Do and Demba wish to become part of the modernisation process, and subsequently leave for the nearby city to make their fortune – a striking...

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

During the civil war in Ivory Coast, as in other countries at war, the unmistakable importance of the media in the dissemination of information and...

A film by Burkina Faso filmmakers Drissa Touré and Stephane Mbanga. Made in Dioula / Dyala lanugage which is closely related to Bambara.

“La loi de Moïse”, a film by Drissa Touré.

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...