Country: Switzerland
Year: 1997
Duration: 5'


"The state of cinema in the world is a real question. I prefer to speak about my own cinema, about those in Africa, about their relation to the world". (Idrissa Ouedraogo)

Biography

film director

Idrissa Ouédraogo

Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora, Burkina Faso in 1954. He graduated from the African Film Studies Institute in Ouagadougou. He then worked in the governing board of the Film Production of Burkino Faso in 1981. He remained for a period in Kiev. In 1985 he graduated from IDHEC in Paris. He then received a degree in film studies at the University of Paris at the Sorbonne.

FILMOGRAFIA

Poko (cm, 1981), Les Écuelles (cm, 1983), Les Funérailles du Larlé Naaba (co-regia di Pierre Rouamba, cm, 1984), Ouagadougou, Ouaga deux roues (cm, 1985), Issa le tisserand (cm, 1985), Tenga (cm, 1985), Yam Daabo (1986), Yaaba (1989), Tilaï (1990), A Karim na Sala (tv, 1991), Obi (mm, tv, 1991), Samba Traoré (1992), Gorki (cm, tv, 1993), Le cri du cœur (1994), Afrique, mon Afrique (mm, 1994), Kini & Adams (1997), Les Parias du cinéma (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: Le Guerrier (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: La Boutique (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: Pour une fois (cm, 1997), Pleurs de femmes (cm, video, 1999), Kadi Jolie (cm, video, 1999).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Idrissa Ouedraogo.
Director of photography: Alain Ducousset.
Editor: Maria Lecoeur.
Music: Ismael Lô.
Sound: Didier Leclerc.
Produttrice: Silvia Voser.
Production company: Waka Films AG, via Sala 9, 6963 Pregassona, Switzerland, tel. +4191-9728163, fax +4191-9722386.
Foreign sales agent: Brussels Ave, 1/48 rue de Visitandines, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, tel. +322-5119156, fax +322-5118139.
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