Yaaba (1989) Duration: 1H30M Description: A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her ‘Witch’ but Bila himself calls her ‘Yaaba’ (grandmother). When Bila’s cousin Nopoko gets sick it ….. Trailer ↗ Burkina Faso Switzerland France West Germany 1989 […]
Le courage des autres (1982) Duration: 1H32M Description: .. Trailer ↗ Burkina Faso 1982 Drama
Sia, le rêve du python (2001) Duration: 1H36M Description: Every year the most beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Python God. When a girl named Sia is the next to be sacrificed, she hides in the house of the village idiot, a man who goes around shouting hyper-aggressive criticisms a….. Trailer ↗ France Burkina […]
Wend Kuuni (1982) Duration: 1H15M Description: In pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush. When the boy comes to, he is mute and cannot explain who he is. The peddler leaves him with a family in the nearest village. Aft….. Trailer ↗ Burkina Faso 1982 Drama
Sarraounia (1986) Duration: 2H Description: On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroun. Those captains and their african mer….. Trailer ↗ Burkina Faso Mauritania France 1986 Drama History War
Yeelen (1987) Duration: 1H45M Description: A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father… Trailer ↗ Mali France Burkina Faso West Germany 1987 Drama Fantasy
Moolaadé (2003) Duration: 2H4M Description: When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart… Trailer ↗ Senegal Burkina Faso Morocco Tunisia Cameroon 2003 Drama
Sankofa (1993) Duration: 2H5M Description: A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and e….. Trailer ↗ United States Ghana Burkina Faso United Kingdom Germany 1993 Drama