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Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), in 1954. He grew up in the town of Ouahigouya in the northern region of his homeland, and in 1976 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. To ensure a better life his farmer parents sent him to Ouagadougou for further education, where he attended the African Institute for Cinema Studies (Institut Africain d’Etudes Cinématographiques) completing his studies in 1981 with a masters. After studying in Kiev in the USSR he moved to Paris, where he graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in 1985 with a DEA from the Sorbonne. On graduating from IAFEC in 1981, Ouédraogo set up his own independent film company, "The Future of Films", which became "Les Films de la Plaine". In 1981, before moving to Kiev, he worked for the Burkina Faso Directorate of Cinema Production (Direction de la Production Cinématographique du Burkina Faso), where he directed several short films.
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Total trailers found: 31
17 May 2022
Fatou Cissé accompanies her father, malien director Souleymane Cissé, through a trip down his film career, painting an intimate and poetic picture of one of Africa’s most celebrated actors.
01 August 2022
Twelve international filmmakers create connections between humans and animals, through biodiversity, ecosystem, climate change, environment and water risks.
01 July 2003
African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars.
04 September 2002
An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.
02 January 1994
Eugene, an idealistic young African farmer and musician, decides to leave his village and family momentarily to try out his luck in the city.
03 March 1993
During a robbery at a petrol station in town, one of the accomplices is shot dead. The other, Samba Traoré, flees with the loot: a suitcase full of banknotes.
20 December 1995
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895.
29 October 1991
Karim's father is missing and presumed dead, which is why his father's brother has taken over the house and is now his stepfather: this is the custom in Burkina Faso.
01 January 1981
For love, a young woman wants to leave her family and her country, which the other young man who loves her cannot understand.
02 January 1991
Directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo.
10 May 1997
Kini and Adams are two friends leaving in a Zimbabwe village who dream of repairing an old broken car, and moving to the city and starting life over.
31 December 2008
The beautiful Awa, from a poor background, decides to marry for money rather than love and ends up with the much older Karim.
04 January 2004
A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice.
01 January 2004
Patrick, a young Frenchman in his thirties, has been working for a year in a small village in Burkina Faso.
02 January 1984
Short directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo.
01 January 1997
Within the framework of the “Half a Century of Locarno, Thoughts on the Future” project, seven directors, Idrissa Ouedraogo among them, have the chance to express their vision of the future of the film industry by means of a short film.
23 August 1989
A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana.
24 May 1996
The movie shows the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
11 September 2002
Ouagadougou, September 2001: Adamà is a boy who is forced to leave school and work as a newsboy in order to pay for his sick mother's medical treatment.
01 January 1991
This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop Mambéty, David Achkar, Moussa Sene Absa, Mambaye Coulibaly, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Mansour Sora Wade.
02 January 1989
Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature film.
23 October 2008
20 short films about human rights.
24 March 1987
Poverty and misery are rife in Gourga, a village in the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: stay and await international assistance or leave for more fertile regions in the country.
05 April 1995
This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France.
24 September 1990
Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised bride, for himself.
02 January 1985
Issa is a traditional weaver in Burkina Faso who loves his trade. However, so as not to lose his clientele and continue making enough to keep his wife, Issa finds himself forced to sell Western clothes.
01 January 1981
Koudougou and Poko, a young couple, await the birth of their first child. Unfortunately, the pregnancy does not go well for Poko.
02 January 1983
In a Mossi village (in Burkina Faso), two elderly men make traditional wooden bowls used for everyday purposes.
16 May 2003
A king’s son takes over when his father dies.
23 February 1985
The ceremonies at the royal funeral of Larlé Naaba Abga, one of the ministers of the emperor of the Mossi people, the ethnic group to which the majority of the people in Burkina Faso belong.
