Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year: 1986
Duration: 33'
The comic and the tragic, fiction in a documentary, hope after desperation - these are elements of this short film that Ouédraogo directed in the same year as his first feature film, Yam Daabo (1986). This short gathers together certain signs that he had expressed before and makes a perfect prologue to his Yam Daabo. In Tenga we find ourselves in contact with the village and the city and with events that are trusted to be told in gestures rather than in words. A drought is threatening a village and its inhabitants. Carcasses of animals and trees are everyday events. Men and women are divided between working in the fields and looking for jobs in Ouagadougou. There is the splendor of the shots of the women who prepare food and then cook it. Alongside this feature that explicitly documents the real, Ouédraogo places the story of a couple as well as moments of comedy and tragedy. The young woman forces Tenga to take a plow in order to go and work the land. There is the death of Tenga's mother. Ouédraogo proceeds didacticly, but this is quickly undermined by his look of love in filming the time of a life.
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
Regia, soggetto: Idrissa Ouédraogo.
Director of photography: Issaka Thiombiano.
Editor: Sylvie Moat.
Sound: Mustapha Dao.
Music: Franck Sanon, Emilien Sanon, Carle Naaba.
Cast: Djibril Ouédraogo, Fanta Regina Nacro e gli abitanti del villaggio di Silmiougou.
Production company: CCE, Direzione du Cinèma du Burkina Faso, Ministero Francese per le Relazioni Estere, Plein Champ.
Director of photography: Issaka Thiombiano.
Editor: Sylvie Moat.
Sound: Mustapha Dao.
Music: Franck Sanon, Emilien Sanon, Carle Naaba.
Cast: Djibril Ouédraogo, Fanta Regina Nacro e gli abitanti del villaggio di Silmiougou.
Production company: CCE, Direzione du Cinèma du Burkina Faso, Ministero Francese per le Relazioni Estere, Plein Champ.