Abdoulaye Komboudri
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Department: Acting
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A Certain Morning
Overview: Fanta Nacro’s debut film is a provocative look at cinematic illusions versus deadly realities. Riga is a farmer who lives peacefully with his wife and children on the Mossi plateau. When he hears a woman calling for help one day, his entire world is called into question. The first fiction film directed by a Burkinabé woman, A Certain Morning was presented at the 1992 Carthage Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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An Uncommon Woman
Overview: Mina, CEO of a large company, decides to take a second partner. It is a daring and cavalier decision, in an environment where polyandry is viewed with suspicion. But Mina has her reasons.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-08
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Wendemi
Overview: When Cecile (Sylvie Yameogo), an unwed mother-to-be, refuses to identify the father of her child, she is thrown out of her parents' home and eventually leaves her baby in a field, where another family finds him and takes him home. Michel (Alassane Dakissaga), the head of the household, reluctantly assumes responsibility for the baby after going to the police, the local priest and the traditional village chief, each of whom advises him to seek the counsel of another authority.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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Samba Traoré
Overview: Samba (Bakary Sangare) has returned unannounced to his home village, bringing with him a suitcase full of money. Despite his protests that this is money that he earned in the city, the villagers have their doubts. In fact, he held up a gas station and unintentionally killed its attendant, and is in hiding here. Meanwhile, he has married a woman (Mariam Kaba) with a child who left her husband and built a house for her. He is building a bar with his remaining money, but he encounters a situation which makes him believe that he will be exposed to the police, and runs away, leaving a pregnant, very ill wife behind, much to the disgust of the villagers and Samba's own family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bm
Release Date: 1993-03-03
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Duga
Overview: Boromo, Burkina Faso. When Rasmané finds out that his friend Pierre has died, he sets off for his home town to help his family to transport the body home for his funeral. However, Rasmané hasn't reckoned with the traditional village elders who are strictly against them paying their last respects to a non-believer in the village. For Rasmané it is the beginning of an odyssey through Burkina Faso, as it turns out it’s not so straightforward to get the body of a man buried who was not baptised, does not have a Muslim first name and was not a member of any of the country's religious communities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-27
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Tama Djan
Overview: Since this morning, nothing goes well for Assitan : She just surprised her husband with a beautiful young woman, Djénè, in his car. Later she realizes that one plastic bag keeps going back to her over and over. Seems like a bad omen...
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Open Your Eyes
Overview: A beautiful noble Senegalese woman arrives one day in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, and creates chaos through the city with her remarkable seductive powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ff
Release Date: 1995-01-02
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Silmandé - Tourbillon
Overview: Comedy directed by S. Pierre Yameogo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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Keita! The Voice of the Griot
Overview: It is an ordinary afternoon for young Mabo Keïta, at home, in Burkina Faso (West Africa). While his parents are taking a nap, he reads a schoolbook on the front porch when a stranger - an elderly man carrying his own hammock - appears for an unexpected visit. It turns out that the old man is a griot, a West African musician/entertainer whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies. The position of a griot is a time-honored one and passed down from father to son for many generations.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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Sia, the Myth of the Python
Overview: Kaya Maghan, the despotic king of Wagadou, follows the instructions of his priest by ordering the religious sacrifice to the Python God of Sia Yatabaree, the virgin daughter of a notable family. A gift of gold equivalent to Sia’s weight is given to her family as compensation for surrendering their daughter for the sacrifice. However, Sia runs away and finds shelter in the home of a mad prophet who has railed against the king. The king orders his top general to locate Sia, but the general is conflicted since Sia was engaged to marry his nephew, Mamadi, who is in battle on behalf of the kingdom. Mamadi returns and joins his uncle to do battle against the Python God. - Wikipedia, accessed 31 July 2021
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bm
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Siraba, the Great Way
Overview: The film centers on the plan of a government minister to build a road through a sacred forest and the local community's resistance to this project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-11
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Delwende
Overview: After a young boy dies of meningitis, Napoko Diarrha (Yaméogo) is accused of eating his soul because of a local sexist tradition. While this happens, her husband feels disgraced that Diarrha resists the idea of marrying off their daughter, so he exactes his revenge by spreading a dangerous rumor that would probably get her killed. Because of this, Diarrha's fate falls into the village elder's hands. When she finds out she will go trial, she decides to flee to the nearest town, Ouagadougou, before that can take place. After successfully leaving her village, Diarrha's age causes her health to decline, while her daughter grows up. Some time later, her daughter decides to travel to Ouagadougou, in search of her missing mother. Once they are reconnected, they attempt to escape from their male-dominated society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-14
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Haramuya
Overview: The story centers on a devout Muslim, Faco, who tries to run his two-wife household in the traditional way. The trouble begins when his ambitious younger son, Kalifa lapses and gets involved with his older brother's hoodlum friends. Kalifa then gives them his money and soon loses his job. The city has a curfew at night and only those with a highly-prized identity card are allowed out. Police rigorously patrol the streets in search of whores and people without cards. One homeless, unemployed man, Oussou, decides to earn the card by becoming a stoolie for the cops, and snitches on Kalifa's older brother, precipitating a police raid of Faco's home that results in their finding a cache of illegal drugs. Faco and the older son are both stripped naked and thrown in jail. Suddenly Faco finds himself brutalized and humiliated by his Muslim brothers. Meanwhile, the dark-skinned daughter of a white storekeeper, with a lust for black hookers, sets off to find her real mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: bm
Release Date: 1995-01-02
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Katanga: The Dance of the Scorpions
Overview: Pushed by his ambitious wife, Katanga kills the king and takes the throne—and then there is no deed too low to keep his grip on power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ff
Release Date: 2024-09-23
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