|
Search By:
|
Burkina Faso |
|
||
|
The History of Burkinabe Cinema from 1960 to the Present Day |
||||
| 1960 | ||||
| Aug - | A Minuit ... L’Indépendance, the first film produced in Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta), is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1969 | ||||
|
– French distributors boycott the country’s cinemas after their monopoly of the market is destroyed when the government nationalises the cinemas. [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
|
|
||||
|
– The first Pan-African Film Festival is held at Ouagadougou. [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1971 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
|
||||
|
Le Sang des Parias (Mamadou Djimkola) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1981 | ||||
 |
||||
| 23/2 - |
Souleymane Cissé's Finyé (The Wind) wins the top award award at the eighth Ouagadougou Film Festival. Gaston Kaboré’s Wend Kuni (The Gift of God) also receives a special prize. [MORE] [ADD] |
|||
| 1989 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Yaaba (Idrissa Ouedraogo) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1991 | ||||
 |
||||
|
|
||||
| 2/2 - |
Idrissa Ouedraogo’s film Tilai wins the Best Film award at the 12th Pan-African Film Festival in Ouagadougou. The jury at this year’s awards is presided over by Malian director Souleymane Cissé. [MORE] [ADD] |
|||
|
Burkina Faso 1991: Films of Note |
||||
|
|
||||
|
With Karim and Sala (Idrissa Ouedraogo) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1992 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Samba Traore (Idrissa Ouedraogo) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1993 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Wendemi, Child of the Good God (S. Pierre Yameogo) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1997 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Buud Yam (Gaston Kabore) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
|
|
||||
|
Kini and Adams (Idrissa Ouedraogo) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1998 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Silmande Tourbillon (Pierre Yamégo) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
|
|
||||
|
Le Truc De Konate (Fanta Regina Nacro) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1999 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Bambini d'Africa (AR Ganemtoré, A Soetje) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
|
|
||||
|
Souko, le cinematographe en Carton (Issiak Konaté) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 2000 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Close Up of Bintou (Fanta Regina Nacro) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
|
|
||||
|
Sya, le rêve du python (Dany Kouyaté) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 2002 | ||||
|
Films of Note |
||||
|
Le Retour de la main habile (Tassere Ouedraodo) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 2009 | ||||
| 7/3 - |
Following its success at the Venice Film Festival in 2008, Haile Gerima’s Teza wins the Golden Yennenga Stallion prize at the 40th Fespaco film festival. The South African film Nothing But The Truth wins second prize. [MORE] [ADD] |