Burkina Faso Movies

The time it takes to travel through a city, the time for encounters, the time for space and silence, the time for words forgotten and letters sent...

In Burkina Faso, against the backdrop of advancing jihadist forces, Natie, a troubled teenager, discovers that her grandmother married a man she did...

The beautiful Awa, from a poor background, decides to marry for money rather than love and ends up with the much older Karim. While married, she...

Twelve-year-old Simon has lost everything to the civil war that has devastated his country. "Black Lion," the ruthless rebel leader of the People's...

After 10 years of hardship in Italy, Djibi returns to Burkina Faso where he recruits 6 young people to prepare them for the crossing to Europe that...

Directed by Mustapha Diop.

October 2014. Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is the scene of an unarmed uprising that ousts the dictator in power since 1987 and later...

In a fictional West African town, black-on-black political corruption exists "from the bedroom to the president's palace" as a mother fights for...

Many people died in the village of Ziglo, in western Côte d’Ivoire, during the 2011 civil war. Having waited too long for state justice,...

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

Mina, CEO of a large company, decides to take a second partner. It is a daring and cavalier decision, in an environment where polyandry is viewed...

Thirteen-year-old Opio works on the grounds of the Perkoa Gold Mine in Burkina Faso. His only pay each month is a bag of rocks, which Opio hopes may...

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A former world champion dies in oblivion. Defying all obstacles, his fellow wrestlers organise one last...

Happy are those who, like Sekou, have had a great journey. A storyteller like his parents, he perfects his apprenticeship on a pilmigrage through...

It's celebration time in the West African Republic: the national team, the Phacochères, have qualified for the World Cup final. To avoid...

Patrick, a young Frenchman in his thirties, has been working for a year in a small village in Burkina Faso. He has a relationship for a few months...

When Cecile (Sylvie Yameogo), an unwed mother-to-be, refuses to identify the father of her child, she is thrown out of her parents' home and...

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This...

Bintou wants to make sure that her daughter goes to school, but her husband Abel doesn’t think it’s worth it and claims there is only...