Burkina Faso Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

“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...

Directed by Mustapha Diop.

Ouagadougou. Téné, queen of the night, inherits the family stables after the death of her father. While at first she’s determined...

Two childhood friends, once inseparable, find their bond twisted into a dark and intense rivalry as adults. One is married, while the other, still...

"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...

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...