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  • Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in 1954 in Banfora, Burkina Faso, and became known for his film Yaaba, which attracted over 50,000 movie-goers in Switzerland in.

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    Death of Burkina Fasso's director Idrissa Ouedraogo

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    Burkina Fasso's Filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo died at the age of 64. Director or more than 40 films, he’s contributed to cast a light on Burkinabe cinema.

    It’s during the Berlinale, this Sunday 18 February, that we learnt with great sorrow the death of Burkina Fasso’s director Idrissa Ouedraogo, born in 1954 and winner in Berlin in 1993 of a Silver Bear for Samba Traoré. After several short films in the early 80s, everything changed with his 1st feature film YAM DAABO, selected at La Semaine de la Critique in 1987, followed by Yaaba (Directors Fortnight in 1989) and by Tilaï, winner of the Jury’s Grand Prize at the Festival de Cannes in 1990. In the wake of his two celebrated predecessors, Sembene Ousmane for Senegal (BLACK GIRL, Semaine de la Critique 1966) and Souleymane Cissé for Mali, he’s contributed to cast a light on Burkinabe cinema, one

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    Yaaba


    Burkina Faso, 1989


    Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo

    Production: Arcadia Films (Paris), Les Films de l'Avenir (Ouagadougou), and Thelma rulle (Zürich); color, 35mm; running time: 90 minutes; length: 2465 meters (Sweden). Released 1989; filmed in Tougouzagué Village, Burkina Faso.


    Producers: Freddy Denaës, Michael David, Pierre-Alain Meier, and Idrissa Ouedraogo; screenplay: Idrissa Ouedraogo; assistant directors: Paul Zoumbara and Ismaël Ouedraogo; photography: Matthias Kälin; editor: Loredana Cristelli; music: Francis Bebey; sound: Jean-Paul Mugel; sound mixer: Dominique Dalmasso; costumes: Marian Sidibé.


    Cast: Fatimata Sanga (Yaaba); Noufou Ouedraogo (Bila); Roukietou Barry (Nopoko); Adama Ouedraogo (Kougri); Amadé Touré (Tibo); Sibidou Ouedraogo (Poko); Adamé Sidibé (Razougou); Rasmane Ouedraogo (Noaga); Kinda Moumouni (Finse); Assita Ouedraogo (Koudi); Zenabou Ouedraogo (Pegda); Ousmane Sawadogo (Tibo).


    Awards: FIPR

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    Idrissa Ouédraogo

    Burkinabé filmmaker (1954–2018)

    Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was a Burkinabé filmmaker. His work often explored the conflict between rural and city life and tradition and modernity in his native Burkina Faso and elsewhere in Africa. He is best known for his feature film Tilaï, which won the Grand Prix at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and Samba Traoré (1993), which was nominated for the Silver Bear award at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

    Early life and education

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    Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), in 1954.[2] He grew up in the town of Ouahigouya in the northern region of his homeland, and in 1976 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree.[3] To ensure a better life his farmer parents sent him to Ouagadougou for further education, where he attended the African Institute for Cinema Studies (Institut Africain d’Etudes Cinématographiques) comp