Burkina Faso Movies

Kigali, capital of Rwanda: a motor-bike taxi connects its passengers through the arteries, veins and vessels of the city, weaving a rhizome of...

Young people call into question their village's customs and create an agricultural co-operative.

In northern Burkina Faso, water is a scarce commodity. The effects of human activity on the climate have caused migration, and the Oursi pond is the...

In the war-torn Sahel region, Naïma - who has lost her hearing as a child during a terrorist attack - arrives at a refugee camp, unaware that...

A film by Burkina Faso filmmakers Drissa Touré and Stephane Mbanga. Made in Dioula / Dyala lanugage which is closely related to Bambara.

At home in Burkina Faso, filmmaker Simplice Herman Ganou usually documents human relationships. A new project takes him to Winterthur in Switzerland,...

Suicide bombers are chosen by chance and their funeral rites accomplish the work of God. On this particular day the envoy of God is twelve -year-old...

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....

Congolese living in France for some thirty years, Papa Éric le tendre breathes and inspires good humor. From his danceable, swaying gait, to...

When her mother died in childbirth, eight-year-old Safi found herself with a newborn in her arms, taken away from the village that, according to an...

After school closes, the street children roam the streets playing games, an inexhaustible source of learning. First larceny, street fights, the first...

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

“Abdoulaye Mamani, a militant and trade unionist, journalist, engaged writer, led a lifelong struggle for people’s freedom and the...

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...

A close-knit family shelters a generous stranger whose stay lingers. As nearby tragedies emerge, suspicion grows. When the eldest joins a defense...