Cast: Rasmane Ouedraogo

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Jérémie Rénier · Olivier Gourmet · Assita Ouédraogo · Frederic Bodson

Plot Hailed by many critics as one of the top ten films of the year, The Promise is the extraordinary story of a boy's ascendance to grace. Under the conscienceless guidance...

Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo

Cast Rasmane Ouedraogo · Ina Cissé · Roukietou Barry · Sibidou Sidibe

Plot Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised bride, for himself. Still in love with each other, the two...

Direction Philippe Lacôte

Cast Issaka Sawadogo · Steve Tientcheu · Denis Lavant · Rasmane Ouedraogo

Plot A young man is sent to “La Maca”, a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red...

Direction Fanta Régina Nacro

Cast Moussa Cissé · Adama Ouédraogo · Rasmane Ouedraogo · Georgette Paré

Plot Mirroring the political strife and genocide in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, this film opens as preparations are being made to end a decade of civil war in a fictitious country. A...

Direction Laurent Salgues

Cast Makena Diop · Rasmane Ouedraogo · Souleymane Souré · Fatou Tall-Salgues

Plot A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him.

Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo

Cast Rasmane Ouedraogo · Salmata Sawadogo

Direction Roger Gnoan M'Bala

Cast Rasmane Ouedraogo · Albertine N'Guessan · Ziable Honoré Goore Bi · Bintou Bakayoko

Direction Philippe Lacôte

Cast Abdoul Karim Konaté · Isaach de Bankole · Alexandre Desane · Abdoul Bah

Plot RUN is running away… He has just killed his country’s Prime Minister. Therefore he had to take the face and clothes of a madman wandering throughout the town for months....

Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo

Cast Omar Ouedraogo · Rasmane Ouedraogo · Ina Cissé · Nouss Nabil

Plot After ruling for 20 years, the King is on his deathbed. He summons his son, Tanga, and his brother, Halyare, to avoid a bloody battle for the succession. However, despite...

Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo

Cast Aoua Guiraud · Moussa Blogo · Assita Ouédraogo · Fatima Ouedraogo

Plot The story takes place in Burkina Faso. Poverty grows with each year that passes at Gourga, a village on the borders of the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: either wait...