Category: The Burkina section

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Agathe is a student in criminology. She has been abused by her brother since her childhood. And from this incestuous relationship, Ines was born with a handicap due to her consanguinity. The three of them live together in a large house they inherited after the accidental death of their parents 15 years ago. Agathe’s daily struggle is to protect her daughter from her brother’s sexual urges.

Biofilmography

Thomas Hénoc OUEDRAOGO is an emerging writer-director. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in film directing from the Institut Supérieur de l’Image et du Son (ISIS/SE) in 2013. He is best known for playing leading roles in many films and series of renowned directors such as Dani KOUYATE, Adama ROAMBA, Guy Désiré YAMEOGO etc. After his studies, Thomas OUEDRAOGO is quickly distinguished by his talent as first assistant director and is regularly solicited by several production structures of the place. Since 2019, he is the author of three (3) films.

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A specialist in tropical plants, Rayann, 32, is a brilliant scientist who has had an exemplary career. But he loses his family in a terrorist attack. Since then, Rayann has lived apart from the world until the day he is taken hostage in his house by terrorists pursued by the police. By instinct of survival, he plans to neutralize them thanks to his knowledge of plants.

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When his father dies due to a lack of financial means for an early treatment of his illness, Malla blames the whole world. He blames his older brother Fado, his mother, his late father and even God. He only dreams of one thing, to get out of this misery and avoid his younger sister Kandi, to die from this hereditary disease that took their father. In his quest for a solution, Malla drags his family, in spite of themselves, into a dark adventure.

Biofilmography

OUEDRAOGO Dramane was born in Abobo-Gare, Republic of Ivory Coast, on December 28, 1985. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, and his love for art led him to the cinema for the first time in 2007 as an actor in a short film entitled “Amour sans frontière” (Love without borders) by Laurentine BAYALA, where he plays the main character. He then trained in theater and contemporary dance at the “Atelier Théâtre Burkinabè” (ATB). He then played several roles in forum plays and in about twenty films of all genres.

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The story takes place in modern-day Burkina Faso. Madi, a child from a small village, is confronted with illness at a very young age and his parents do everything they can to save his life, even if it means going into debt. Thanks to their love and devotion, they allow him to recover. When Madi reaches 20 years old, they are always at his side to offer him a good education and help him to enter the working life with all the assets of success. So why does Madi disown them to the point of cutting them out of his life as soon as he reaches this goal despite all the sacrifices they have made for him? And when illness catches up with him and ruin hits, will he finally understand that family and health are far more precious than money?

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Faced with increasingly frequent and deadly attacks by armed groups since January 2016, Burkina Faso is also experiencing intercommunal clashes. Attacks by jihadist groups have caused nearly two million people to flee their homes, closed more than 4,000 schools and killed thousands of Burkinabè.
Abdou Djamal, about 50 years old, is the leader of an armed group that poses as a gold digger and a devout Muslim. Djamal is a strategist and a self-confident manipulator. He plans and directs, from his home in the city, all the operations and armed attacks perpetrated by Walid Jafar, his field man, against the civilian population.
Zakaria is a teenager, 15 years old. Internally displaced, Zakaria lives with his mother in the same neighborhood as Djamal, he is an orphan, his father was killed by the commando of Djamal. His father was killed by Djamal’s commando. Now that he and his mother are internally displaced, Zakaria’s new activity is collecting garbage with a cart. His destiny will change the day Djamal decides to take him in after a work accident.

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The death of Judge Mory Samuel upsets the entire country. Accident or murder? An investigation was opened. Unconvinced by the conclusions of the autopsy, the members of the magistrates’ union call for a strike to protest against the insecurity in which they work. The widow Adji Mory decides to find out for sure and starts to investigate. The thesis of murder seems to be corroborated. Was it a crime or a political assassination? This is a difficult question, especially since Sam Mory has judged many sensitive cases and sent many indelicate people behind bars. What can this woman do on her own in the face of the formidable machinery that weaves in the shadows? Will Adji Mory come out of this trap unscathed?

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A young woman, mounted on a horse and armed with a quiver, gallops at a fast pace. The horse speeds up at every command of its master. Mixing with the sound of hooves, a distant voice calling for someone can be heard, Yennenga… Without paying attention to this call, the rider continues her ride and disappears in the distance. Ignoring the concerns of the rider Yennenga, the city of Ouagadougou is dressed in its finest finery to receive its guests, including directors who have their films in competition at the 27th edition of Fespaco. Like a horse race, four (4) directors, Moumouni from Burkina Faso, Fama from Senegal, Aicha from Niger and Mutiganda from Rwanda, set out for a long ride.

Biofilmography

Eléonore YAMEOGO is a Burkinabe director. She studied cinema at the “Institut Supérieur de l’Image et du Son” Image and Sound in Ouagadougou, then during workshops in France and Belgium. After having directed short and medium-length films: “Ouaga Jazzy”, “Ouaga HH”, “La main tendue”, 2011 marks the
the release of his first feature-length documentary “Paris mon Paradis” which premiered at FESPACO
at the FESPACO and won the prize of the Conseil Supérieur de I’Information. A series of awards followed in the same year. In 2019, she released “Le cimetière des éléphants” selected for the feature documentary competition at FESPACO. In 2021, Eléonore co-directs with Rosine Mbakam (Cameroon), An Van Dienderen (Belgium) “PRISM” a feature documentary. In 2022, Eléonore Yaméogo directed a documentary series of 26 episodes*12 min entitled ” DE L’AUTRE COTE DES RIVES “.

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In this film, the aim is to restore the rich life of this atypical character of Moustapha Thiombiano called “the madman”, “the boss” or “the cowboy” in the field of media, culture (Fespaco), and popular urban activities through testimonies and archives. The dynamics of the film are modelled on the character of the character himself. That is to say in movement as indicated by his name “Laabli” in Gulmatchéma. The tone of the film is in the image of Mustapha, raw, comical, frank and direct without euphemism. It is also about showing, regime after regime, how his works have influenced the populations from 1960 to today. What was the relationship between Moustapha the free thinker and Captain Thomas Sankara during the revolution and the other presidents? What was his relationship with wealth? women? democracy? youth? And religion?

Biofilmography

Born in Pièla, in a rural commune in the East of Burkina Faso, Luc Youlouka DAMIBA has a Master’s degree in journalism and communication from the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University of Ouagadougou. He then embarked on a career as a researcher specializing in anti-corruption and governance issues in West Africa. He studied development at the University of Geneva in Switzerland where he obtained a Master’s degree in development studies. After a few years of journalistic practice in the private and public press in Burkina, DAMIBA co-founded with friends a web television on the one hand and on the other hand a platform for the dissemination of audiovisual media to the youth (Ciné Droit Libre festival). For more than 15 years, he has been co-directing the cultural and militant association Semfilms Burkina, which specializes in the use of images for the promotion of human rights. DAMIBA has directed, co-directed, produced and co-produced several thematic documentaries in Burkina, and in several African countries. He makes cinema his passion and his commitment to human rights.

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Paris is a city where most people seem sad and lonely. But Papa Eric is there to give them tenderness and boost their mood. I paint a portrait of this atypical character that I am looking for or maybe I am just looking for happiness.

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Wendkoagnda Gaston BONKOUNGOU joined the “Institut Supérieur de l’Image et du Son/Studio-École” (ISIS-SE) in 2019 with the aim of pursuing a career in cinema. A great lover of cinema, this passion has led him to invest body and soul to acquire a film culture through research, training, writing residencies, exchanges and master classes with film personalities. He also participated in filming as first assistant director and director. Souk, his first film of school received international awards.

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Obstetric fistula is characterized by chronic incontinence in women. In Burkina Faso, this pathology affects hundreds of women. Known as the “disease of the shadow”, it affects the dignity and physical integrity of women and is the nightmare of many women around the world. In Ouagadougou, the RAMA Foundation supports and provides medical care and counseling to women with fistula. This document is a collection of testimonies from women who have suffered from fistula and who are mostly residents of the RAMA Foundation. They tell us about their experiences.

Biofilmography

Habibou ZOUNGRANA is an editor, director and trainer. Born in Burkina Faso, her path crosses the cinema which she studied at the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Banos in Cuba. With a degree in editing, she returned to Burkina Faso in 1992 where she edited several documentary and fiction films, commercials and television series. In 2001, she directed her first documentary film, “A moi la pilule”, which was followed by other short films. Her documentary film “Nous aussi” (2004) and her fictions “Rupture à froid”, “Quelqu’un à la porte” (2013) were selected in competition at FESPACO. In 2015 she directed her first feature film “The Conspiracy”, in 2016 a documentary film “Judith, femme hirondelle”, in 2017 a documentary film on female genital mutilation entitled “Générations sans excision”, in 2020? a documentary film entitled “Moi Anne -Marie”, and in 2021 a fiction film entitled “Une si longue attente…”. Currently, she works at the Ministry of Communication and devotes herself to training young people in editing in film schools (ISIS, ISTIC), writing and directing her film projects.