Burkina Faso Movies

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classmates become their port of safety, joy and...

Ouagadougou, September 2001: Adamà is a boy who is forced to leave school and work as a newsboy in order to pay for his sick mother's medical...

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his...

The day after their disastrous escapade, our three scoundrels, although publicly forgiven, face the persistent bad mood of their wives. One idea...

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal...

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

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is...

It is an ordinary afternoon for young Mabo Keïta, at home, in Burkina Faso (West Africa). While his parents are taking a nap, he reads a...

At the time of the 30th anniversary of the death of Thomas Sankara, the African executive of a multinational mining company established in Africa,...

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...

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

BURKINABÈ RISING: the art of resistnace in Burkina Faso showcases creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso. A small, landlocked country...

Documentary about filmmaker, author, director, and performance artist Christoph Schlingensief and his last major project, building an opera village...

An inside look at slavery in the country of Burkina Faso, The Courage Of Others follows the journey of a slave (played by Sotigui Kouyaté)...

The life story of Daniel Balimá, a horticulturist with a disability in Burkina Faso.

In the African nation of Burkina Faso, drums such as the djembe are more than a simple instrument; they have long been used for communication and...

This documentary follows the traces of the French colonization of the country Lobi. In this region of southwestern Burkina Faso, there is not a...