Burkina Faso Movies

The scene is set in Southern Burkina Faso, and also in different parts of the Ivory Coast. Five women are shown with their daily burdens and one can...

It's payday and Adama, a factory worker, counts her meager salary trying to reconcile her needs with those of her family back in the village.

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

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...

Scarification on the face and body has existed since the dawn of time in the Bwaba ethnic group, but there is no precise information on the meaning...

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

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.

Comedy directed by S. Pierre Yameogo.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

In the heart of the city of Ouagadougou, a huge granite crater imprisons men who try their best to get out of it. In the end, only their image will...

Karim lives in Brest and works at the local airport. Every two years he returns to Ouagadougou, to be with his family and friends, do some business....

With Moustapha Dao’s second short film “The painter’s Nephew” (1989), he is involved in the adaptation of African tales...

Directed by Drissa Toure.