Burkina Faso Movies

Ouagadougou – Portraits of Gods (1992) explores contemporary Burkina Faso through the intertwined journeys of two Burkinabè men and a...

A battle of supremacy between noble and corrupt cowboy groups in the town of Younga. The film is an adoption of typical American Western/cowboy...

A casino employee and his gangster boss come to blows over the same woman.

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

Suicide bombers are chosen by chance and their funeral rites accomplish the work of God. On this particular day the envoy of God is twelve -year-old...

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...

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...

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

“Abdoulaye Mamani, a militant and trade unionist, journalist, engaged writer, led a lifelong struggle for people’s freedom and the...

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...

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

The film is homage to the powerful spirit of the 12th-century West African warrior princess, whose presence is still felt by women living there...

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

In a village in Burkina Faso, an old peasant discovers diamonds that will prove harmful to anyone who approaches them too closely. The Ministry of...

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

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

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...

Simon Panay’s film takes us into the world of Opio, a boy of 13 who works at a gold mine in Burkina Faso. As you might imagine, it’s a...