Burkina Faso Movies

Bila, a young peasant, decides to go to Ivory Coast to work and is asked by his parents to accompany Pogbi who is going to meet her fiancé,...

In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold – and a better future. As a result, 16-year-old Rasmané barely seems like a...

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...

When Djénéba returns from the city where she has been visiting her cousin, she brings her husband, Konaté, a wonderful gift: a...

Directed by Mustapha Diop.

Do and Demba wish to become part of the modernisation process, and subsequently leave for the nearby city to make their fortune – a striking...

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in...

Scarification on the face and body has existed since the dawn of time in the Bwaba ethnic group, but there is no precise information on the meaning...

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...

The time it takes to travel through a city, the time for encounters, the time for space and silence, the time for words forgotten and letters sent...

On their ladyfriends' insistence, their "Tchiza", three friends go on an extramarital trip out of Ouagadougou, a fake mission to Abidjan being the...

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

The beautiful Awa, from a poor background, decides to marry for money rather than love and ends up with the much older Karim. While married, she...

Seventeen-year-old Titenga leaves his traditional village in West Africa in search of a better life in the capital. He quickly falls into a life of...

In the first half of the 1990s, Drissa Touré was an auteur fast on the rise, with his first fiction feature, Laada (1991), celebrating its...

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A former world champion dies in oblivion. Defying all obstacles, his fellow wrestlers organise one last...

Boromo, Burkina Faso. When Rasmané finds out that his friend Pierre has died, he sets off for his home town to help his family to transport...

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...

Nongma, a ten-year-old girl, goes to join her grandmother in a remote village. An official offers to send Nongma's grandmother to school, but she...

It's celebration time in the West African Republic: the national team, the Phacochères, have qualified for the World Cup final. To avoid...