Issaka Sawadogo
Also Known As: Isaka Sawadogo, Ісака Савадого
Biography: Isaka Sawadogo (born 1966), sometimes credited as Issaka Sawadogo, is a Burkinabé actor. He is most noted for his performances in the Canadian film Diego Star, for which he received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Actor at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014, and the Dutch film The Paradise Suite, for which he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor at the 2016 Netherlands Film Festival. In 2020, he appeared in a supporting role in Philippe Lacôte's film Night of the Kings (La Nuit des rois). In 2021 he played the lead role in Jorge Camarotti's short film Ousmane. Source: Article "Isaka Sawadogo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Birthday: May 18, 1966
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Male
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Sounds of Sand
Overview: On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-02
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In His Shadow
Overview: After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Mali Twist
Overview: Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-05
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Mercy
Overview: Ali is a 14-year-old teenager on the loose. To give him a proper education, his single mother sends him to a madrassa in Mali. When Ali comes back ten years later, he is a completely changed young man in his twenties. He has received a pious religious education and his deep knowledge of Islam makes him the perfect candidate to be the local Imam of his city, despite his young age and the doubts of his mother. His modern views and charisma quickly make him popular amongst his Muslim community, until his will to do good meets his new ambition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-26
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Ballen i øyet
Overview: While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-10-02
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Home for Christmas
Overview: Adapted from a series of short stories by Norwegian author Levi Henriksen, Bent Hamers Home for Christmas weaves together the lives of people struggling to find their way home on a Christmas Eve, beneath the colors of the Northern Lights. The plot unfolds during a few afternoon hours on Christmas Eve. The individual stories, which at times intertwine, are set in the small town Skogli. The characters in the stories cover a great range in age and life situations, representing both reconciliation with their own lives and strong frustration. Some show the will to understand and do something about their lives, while others have given up. Deeply tragic and melancholy aspects are mixed with humour and rather frivolous solutions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Three Scoundrels
Overview: On their ladyfriends' insistence, their "Tchiza", three friends go on an extramarital trip out of Ouagadougou, a fake mission to Abidjian being the perfect alibi. But it all goes downhill when they learn that the plane they should have been in has crashed down. How can they come back home when they're supposed to be dead? Their wives' vengeance will burn the ground they walk on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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The Invader
Overview: An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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Quand sort la recluse
Overview: After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-04-10
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Diego Star
Overview: A cargo ship is stuck on the Canadian Saint Lawrence River for repairs. Traoré, an Ivory Coast mechanic is unjustly accused of causing the damage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-25
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The Legend of Black Snake
Overview: After years spent in Paris, Clotaire Sangala returns to his native country, Africa. Raised by a Chinese martial arts grandfather, convinced to have been found in a garbage can, Clotaire knows nothing of the glorious past of his parents. He will become "Black Snake", the masked and ultra-sapped superhero, liberator of the people against the dictator Hezekiah.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-20
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Io Capitano
Overview: Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-09-07
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Grill
Overview: Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into uncomfortable situations. Inspired by true events, "Grill" offers a satirical look at how a rich country in Scandinavia deals with poverty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2023-09-17
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Cabo
Overview: Ambitious Cape Verdean medical student Artur struggles with his responsibilities.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-09-29
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Arash
Overview: The refugee Matthew wait in the outfit centre schiphol East for its flight to Sudan. If that of but, Arash, a despair action commits, Matthew get suddenly the chance of escaping
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Time Out
Overview: Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end. 48 hours to come back down to earth. 48 hours to reconnect with their close friends. 48 hours trying to make up the lost time.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-03
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The Song of the Rifles
Overview: Twelve-year-old Simon has lost everything to the civil war that has devastated his country. "Black Lion," the ruthless rebel leader of the People's Revolutionary Army, has killed Simon's family and burned down his house. As an expert in weapons and battle strategies, he has formed a rebel group that wants to take power by force with the help of child soldiers. Simon is kidnapped and turned into a child soldier. Traumatized and plagued by nightmares, Simon plans to escape with his comrades while special forces of the African Union prepare an attack on Black Lion.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-18
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The New World
Overview: Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers at the airport. She tries to forget her past through routine. When the charismatic West African Luc is brought in, Mirte seems to get a grip on her life again. A film about loss, fleeing and love from an unexpected corner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-01-29
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Casting Call
Overview: Young actor Amir yearns for success, yet his impatience steers him into a nightmare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-01-23
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Exoticore
Overview: A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to integrate in Norwegian society. Exoticore is a touching tale about modern-day people trying to find their place in this world. A film about being a foreigner, about solitude and contemporary insanity. A dark journey into exoticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-01
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Into Thin Air
Overview: 1992: The undocumented Ghanaian Agymah (50) lives a secluded life as a cook in the outskirts of Amsterdam. When the ambitious dreamer Nina (12) arrives, Agymah is effectively forced to become her guardian. Nina drives Agymah crazy with her callous way of life and her eagerness to make contact with the outside world. Gradually, though, Agymah comes to understand that this is exactly what he has been escaping from and he realizes he must choose for life instead of waiting for death. When El Al flight 1862 crashes into their building, Agymah goes on a desperate search for the girl that gave him a reason to live. Into Thin Air is the first film based on the Bijlmer crash. It tells a human story of an event that has been branded into the collective memory of The Netherlands. Officially there were 43 fatalities, but because of the large number of illegal residents the actual figure will never be known.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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White People
Overview: The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Hood Witch
Overview: A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn facing a violent backlash.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-15
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The Site
Overview: Vincent, in his thirties, works on a night shift on the gigantic Grand Ciel construction site, a futuristic district. When a worker disappears, Vincent and his colleagues suspect the team leader of having hidden his body on the site. Soon Vincent witnesses strange manifestations on the construction site and, in turn, another worker disappears.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: fr
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The Paradise Suite
Overview: The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-10-29
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Maman
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-24
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No Chains, No Masters
Overview: 1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-18
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Yesterday
Overview: 50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-06
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Samba
Overview: Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-15
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The Black Lapp
Overview: Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl's age, her son Peder, and her black adopted son, Ante, that arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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Animal
Overview: Monsters fight with each other in a dystopian world, playing out the revenge of their human breeders.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-04
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Walter
Overview: For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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The Lamb
Overview: Three kids spend the summer days the usual way: hanging out, snapchatting... and playing with their newly discovered pet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2019-06-30
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Re \ Entry
Overview: 'What happened? Where am I?' The man who wakes up alone in the woods has many questions. Is he dead and in the hereafter? The voice of God soberly answers his questions: Yep, that’s right. Traffic accident. But it’s not that bad, because everyone eventually dies. All the man’s questions, also about the meaning of life, are answered. In an equally entertaining and stimulating dialogue in English, the film evokes a comprehensive image of the universe and man’s place in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-10-01
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Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Marion Hänsel
Overview: On the basis of conversations with Hänsel and some of her permanent crew members, a remarkable portrait is created of a filmmaker who is also her own producer, i.e. boss. The relationship between characters and their natural environment plays a major role in her work that is often based on novels.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-28
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Belleville Cop
Overview: When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-17
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Night of the Kings
Overview: A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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Swooni
Overview: In a luxurious hotel, the lives of 6 people cross. A story about love, life and the search for happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-24
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Cool Abdoul
Overview: The story of Ismail Abdoul, a promising young boxer getting caught between his sporting carreer and his rising fame in the criminal underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-09-11
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Ousmane
Overview: The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-11
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Adú
Overview: In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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Soleils
Overview: An old man is entrusted in curing a young girl struck by amnesia. He takes her on a healing trip, eccentric and joyous, to Ouagadougou by way of the Cape, Berlin, Mali, Belgium… In their travels full of surprises, they meet characters both remarkable and luminous, or ignorant, with set ideas, some fabulous creatures, and a text hidden deep in a continent that reveals a well-kept secret: Africa has something to tell us.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-25
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