Idrissa Ouedraogo

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name = Idrissa Ouedraogo


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location = Banfora, Upper Volta
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Idrissa Ouedraogo (born 21 January 1954 in Banfora, Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso) is a film director from Burkina Faso. He is best known for his films "Yaaba" and "Tilaï".

Biography

Idrissa Ouedraogo is a graduate of the "African Institute for Cinema Studies" ("Institut Africain d’Etudes Cinématographiques") in Ouagadougou. In 1981 he began to work for the "Burkina Faso Directorate of Cinema Production" ("Direction de la Production Cinématographique du Burkina Faso"), where he directed several short films. The short film "Poko" won the short film prize at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 1981. After studying in Kiev in the USSR he moved to Paris, where he graduated from the "Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques " IDHEC in 1985

Ouédraogo won the Cannes 1990 Special Jury Prize for his film "Tilaï" ("The Law") (1990), and the Fipresci award for his 1989 film "Yam Daabo".

Filmography

* "Pourquoi?" (Why) (1981) (short)
* "Poko" (1981) (short)
* "Les Écuelles" (The Platters) (1983) (short)
* "Les Funérailles du Larle Naba" (Larle Naba's Funeral) (1984) (short)
* "Ouagadougou, Ouaga deux roues" (1985) (short)
* "Issa le tisserand" (Issa the Weaver) (1985) (short)
* "Yam Daabo" (The Choice) (1986)
* "Yaaba" (Grandmother) (1989)
* "Tilaï" (The Law) (1990)
* "Obi" (1991) (short)
* "A Karim na Sala" (Karim and Sala) (1991)
* "Samba Traoré" (1993)
* "Le Cri du cœur" (Heart's Cry) (1994)
* "Gorki" (1994) (short)
* "Afrique, mon Afrique" (Africa, My Africa) (1994) (short)
* "Lumière et compagnie" (Lumière and Company) (1995) (segment)
* "Kini and Adams" (1997)
* "Les Parias du cinémas" (1997) (short)
* "Entre l'arbre et l'écorce" (1999) (television programme)
* "Scenarios from the Sahel" (2001) (short)
* "Kadi Jolie" (2001) (television series)
* "11'09''01 September 11" (2002) "(segment "Burkina Faso")"
* "La Colère des dieux" (Anger of the Gods) (2003)
* "Kato Kato" (2006)

ee also

* Cinema of Burkina Faso

External links

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* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/ouedraogo.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
* [http://www.filmfestivals.com/cannes97/cfilmc5.htm Ouédraogo on "Kini and Adams"]

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NAME= Ouedraogo, Idrissa
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Film director, screenwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1954-1-21
PLACE OF BIRTH= Banfora, Upper Volta
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