Burkina Faso Movies

For Lickma, Bienvenue, Mathilde and Victor life is one of financial insecurity. Taking inspiration from a close friend, they let Herman get them...

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...

Burkina Faso, West Africa. October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the even night’s silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Had the...

On a Monday morning in Berlin, Rachelle is driving home. Issaka, far away in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, writes her a message. Rachelle replies with...

Four women become friends and face challenges while traveling through West Africa.

A family welcomes a generous stranger into their home, but as his stay lengthens, tragedies begin to occur around them and suspicion grows.

At the heart of Africa, a king is poisoned by one of his subjects. An old seer is called to the rescue. Contrary to their expectations, he suggests...

After the brutal massacre of his family in Haiti, Francis Desrances resettles in the Ivory Coast. Years later Francis, his wife Aissey and...

In a desert savannah, two children named Kodou and Tano meet the caretaker of a century-old tree that a contractor wants to cut down. Seeking their...

Koudougou and Poko, a young couple, await the birth of their first child. Unfortunately, the pregnancy does not go well for Poko. First, the village...

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

The technological and the analogue world intersect in this fictional short film that draws a parallel between the old and the new, through the...

Between Ouagadougou, Niamey, Kigali and Dakar, Éléonore Yameogo follows four African directors competing at the 2021 Ouagadougou...

In Ouagadougou, Konomba Traoré, master balafonist, introduces his son to the making and sanctification of a balafon. Material is transformed,...

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

The animated short film tells the story of Yacouba Sawadogo. It evokes the limits of so-called “modern” production systems, which are...

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...