Burkinabé
see all genres ›The former Republic of Upper Volta, Burkina Faso is home to what is perhaps the African continent's most important film festival (the Panafrican or FESPACO) as well as some of its most celebrated filmmakers, including Idrissa Ouedraogo and Gaston Kabore.
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Genres / International / African / Burkinabé
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Sia
Kombi is a poverty-stricken city dominated by a tyrant king. In order to bring back prosperity, the king is advised by his priests to make the traditional human sacrifice of a young virgin to a mystical snake god. Sia, the most beautiful young woman of the village, has been designated. Lieutenant...Watch Movie
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Concerning Violence
From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched...Watch Movie
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The Night of Truth
Fanta Régina Nacro portrays the insanity of modern African history as Shakespearean tragedy in her debut feature film, a theatrical parable in which the ghosts of civil wars past haunt a nation's fledgling peace. Recalling recent conflicts in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the...Watch Movie
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Tasuma Fighter
A comedy set in contemporary Burkina Faso, TASUMA FIGHTER tells the story of a World War II veteran who has been trying for more than fifty years to obtain his well-deserved military pension. Convinced that he will be paid shortly, Sogo buys a mill on credit for the village. But the money does...Watch Movie
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Comrades in Dreams
The lights dim. The surface brightens. Sound and image fill the movie theatre. Magic and dreams. COMRADES IN DREAMS is a valentine to the pleasures of cinema. In a world dominated by cookie-cutter multiplexes, formulaic filmmaking and commercial imperatives, filmmaker Uli...Watch Movie
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Haramuya
Through Fousseini (a Muslim firmly attached to his faith and traditions) and his family, HARAMUYA draws a picture of Ouagadougou in the traps of modernism and traditionalism. Wealth in a modern town and poverty in the suburbs. Fousseini tries to take care of his family according to the old...Watch Movie
