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Jan 4, 2023 · Le prix de la confianceUne film Burkinabe...Realisateur : Abdourahim TAPSOBAProduction : Afrik art productionLes films du destinBurkina Faso, 2021PDC Sous ti...
- 94 min
- 135.9K
- Waguess TV
En attendant le vote...Un film inspiré du livre d’Ahmadou Kourouma, « En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages ».Situé dans le pays imaginaire de la Républiqu...
- 101 min
- 237.3K
- FasoFilms TV
Dans le film "Le fauteuil", le réalisateur burkinabé Missa Hébié met en scène Mme Ouedraogo qui découvre les préjugés sociaux et la difficulté à concilier se...
- 96 min
- 402.9K
- FasoFilms TV
- Development in Spite of Colonialists
- Nationalized Cinema
- An Industry Recovers
- The Next Generation
- The Role of Fespaco
- Burkinabe Cinema in A Snapshot
Film production in Upper Volta began under French colonial rule and could be divided into two categories: ethnographical films, such as Paysans noirs ou Famoro le Tyran (Georges Regnier, 1947) and Masques de feuilles (Guy Le Moal, 1961), and educational films to teach the mostly illiterate population about better agricultural techniques and basic h...
The nationalization of film distribution should be considered within the larger context of the cultural nationalism of the 1970s, when the film medium could be an instrument of cultural liberation. SONAVOCI upgraded the six existing movie theaters with modern equipment, built six additional theaters and worked in partnership with SECMA and COMACICO...
Today, the film industry in Burkina Faso is under reconstruction: by the transition of one generation to another, the gradual shift from celluloid to video/digital technologies and formats, and structural reforms led by the government. The leading figures of Gaston Kaboré and Idrissa Ouédraogo have not produced a critically acclaimed feature-length...
In the midst of this changing landscape emerged a new generation of young filmmakers since the mid-2000s such as Hervé Eric Lingani, Mamounata Nikiema, Laurentine Bayala, Serge Armel Sawadogo, Ibrahim Olokunga, Michel K. Zongo, Éléonore Yaméogo, Inoussa Kaboré, and Aziz Nikiema. Some of these young storytellers learned filmmaking on the job, while ...
FESPACO has played the role of catalyst and barometer for the cinema of Burkina Faso. Hosting the festival every other year provides strong motivation to produce quality films that will represent the country in the official competition categories. But the alternate-year schedule also results in constant introspection into the promises and failures ...
Creation of FESPACO in 1969Nationalization of film distribution and exhibition in 1970Release of first feature-length film, Le sang des parias (The Blood of Pariahs, 1972) by Djim Mamadou KolaClassics of Burkinabe cinema: Wend Kuuni (God’s Gift, 1982), Yaaba (1989), Tilaï (1991), Keita, the Heritage of the Griot (Danny Kouyaté, 1995), Buud Yam(1997)Burkina Faso hosts the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) every two years in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. In 2005, director Gaston Kaboré, who won the top prize at FESPACO in 1997 for his film Buud Yam, opened a training school for new filmmakers in
Oct 17, 2021 · The 27th edition of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) is under way in Burkina Faso's capital. Thousands thronged the Palais des Sports complex in the Ouaga...
Dec 19, 2022 · BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Film producer Drissa Toure peered through the locked glass doors of what was once the lively cinema in Burkina Faso's southwestern city of...
