Idrissa Ouedraogo Filmography

Born:: Banfora, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso)
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Idressa Ouedraogo's earliest memories of film revolved around the traveling cinemas that would tour the villages of his native West Africa. Born in the Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Ouedraogo would later study film in his native country, as well as in Paris and Kiev. It didn't take him very long...Read More

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Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

2008
The Birthday

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

2008
September 11

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were Read More

7/18/03
La Colore des dieux

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Barou Oumar Ouedraogo, Rasmane Ouedraogo, Ina Cisse, Nouss Nabil, Roukietou Barry

2003
Kounandi

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Coty Deborah, Noufou Ouedraogo, Aminata Dao, Olga Toe, Adama Kone

Synopsis: Burkina Faso-based filmmaker Apolline Traore writes and directs the family drama Kounandi. Baby girl Kounandi is born in a small village. When her mother dies, she is given to a quarreling couple. The baby grows up to be a dwarf and is avoided by the rest of the village. She goes out to the Read More

2002
Kini & Adams

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This drama muses upon the brotherly love that develops between best friends and the devastating effects the intervention of reality can have upon heartfelt dreams. Kini and Adams live in a dull, dusty rural South African community and both are dreaming of leaving it behind to find fortune in the Read More

1997
Guimba

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: An African legend forms the basis of this African and German-produced film that is set within an ancient desert town, Sitakili. It is a prosperous town filled with beautiful mud palaces, and is ruled by the despotic tyrant Guimba Dunbuya who spends his day supine on a dais surrounded by servants Read More

1995
Le Cri du Coeur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Said Diarra, Richard Bohringer, Felicite Wouassi, Alex Descas, Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis: This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose first 11 years were spent in a small village in Mali, is having difficulty adjusting to his new life in Paris. After several years in Paris, Moctar Read More

1994
Afrique, Mon Afrique...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This simple drama was made as a part of a series of international films about AIDS. The project is sponsored by the Red Hot Organization. The story begins in a small village in Burkina Faso. There Eugene sells cigarettes, candy, and gum. He is a happy fellow who dreams of becoming a musician. He Read More

1994
Samba Traoré

Crew: Director

Actors: Bakary Sangare, Abdoulaye Komboudri, Irene Tassembedo

Synopsis: Samba (Bakary Sangare) has returned unannounced to his home village, bringing with him a suitcase full of money. Despite his protests that this is money that he earned in the city, the villagers have their doubts. In fact, he held up a gas station and unintentionally killed its attendant, and is Read More

1992
A Karim Na Sala

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Noufou Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Sibidou Ouedraogo, Hyppolyte Wangrawa

Synopsis: 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 in Burkina Faso. This would be all right with Karim, except that his new stepfather is a harsh, unloving man, who would just as soon beat him as Read More

1991
Tilai

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rasmane Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Assita Ouedraogo

Synopsis: The unbending nature of village law wreaks havoc upon an all-too human family in this unusual film from the tiny nation of Burkina Faso. In the story, a young man has fallen in love with and become affianced to a young woman, which is not too strange. But then his father swiftly exercises his Read More

1990
Yaaba

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouedraogo, Amade Toure

Synopsis: The title of the Burkina Faso-produced Yaaba translates to "Grandmother." That character, played by Fatimata Sanga, has been accused of witchcraft by her village. In fact, Sanga is a kindly, serene old woman, perhaps the wisest person in the community. Only Bila (Noufou Ouedraogo), a troubled and Read More

10/6/89
Yam Daabo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Assita Ouedraogo

Synopsis: A family struggles to survive the harsh drought and deadly famine in this engaging drama. A farming family consisting of an aging mother and father travel South with their young son Ali, their marriageable daughter Bintou, and her sweetheart Salam. When they stop in the city to sell their donkey Read More

1986
Les Funerailles du Larle Naba

Crew: Director

1984