Movies and TvShows featuring "burkina-faso" theme.
Mediterranea follows the journey of two friends, Ayiva and Abas, as they leave their home in Burkina Faso and embark on a dangerous journey to Italy. They face violence, smugglers, and tragic events as they try to make a better life for themselves. Along the way, they encounter the harsh realities of illegal immigration, friendship, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Concerning Violence is a documentary film that examines the systematic violence and oppression faced by African nations during the period of colonization. It delves into the impact of imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on the social, political, and economic structures of these nations. Through archive footage and interviews, the film exposes the struggles, resistance, and fight for independence of these countries.
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 sisterhood, all while they are going through the life changing transition into becoming adults in a country boiling with political changes. In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. The young girls at a mechanics school in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou are right in the middle of a crucial point in life when their dreams, hopes and courage are confronted with opinions, fears and society’s expectations of what a woman should be. Using interesting narrative solutions, Theresa Traore Dahlberg depicts their last school years and at the same time succeeds in showing the country’s violent past and present. This is a feature-film debut and coming-of-age film with much warmth, laughs, heartbreak and depth.
The Man Who Stopped the Desert tells the inspiring true story of Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer in Burkina Faso who battled against desertification and transformed his community. Facing drought and famine, Yacouba utilized innovative techniques such as tree planting and composting to restore the land and improve food security. Through his perseverance and nonconformity, Yacouba became a symbol of hope and sustainable development in Africa.
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006) is a gripping documentary that delves into the life of Thomas Sankara, the charismatic and visionary revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso. The film explores Sankara's rise to power, his commitment to anti-imperialism and socialism, and his tragic downfall. Through interviews, archival footage, and insightful analysis, the documentary paints a compelling portrait of a remarkable political leader whose legacy continues to inspire people around the world.
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 staves off an attempted coup. In 2015, the country votes freely for the first time in its history, yet real change remains allusive, especially regarding ongoing economic exploitation by foreign companies. In one year of struggle and resistance, the film follows the daily life of four Burkinabes: a musician and leader of the revolution, a local political candidate, a miner engaged in the labor movement, and an impoverished mother, all sharing hopes that the elections will change the country’s path.
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 schoolbook on the front porch when a stranger - an elderly man carrying his own hammock - appears for an unexpected visit. It turns out that the old man is a griot, a West African musician/entertainer whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies. The position of a griot is a time-honored one and passed down from father to son for many generations.
After obtaining their Secondary School diplomas, some young people plan to continue their education but are not sure which area to choose.
A documentary filmmaker from the Netherlands embarks on a long holiday to the Sahara Desert in Mali and Burkina Faso. Despite his ongoing battle with prostate cancer, he finds solace and adventure in the vast, arid landscape. The film provides an intimate look at his journey and explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and the beauty of nature.
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. Comrades in Dreams brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night.
A blacksmith falls off his bicycle when he tries to avoid a tortoise which crosses his path. He brings the animal home to his twelve year old son, Rabi, who becomes so fascinated that he forgets his chores at this father's shop. When the angry smith removes the tortoise, Rabi's grandfather, Pusga, helps Rabi find a larger one to consol the boy. Rabi wants to tame the animal and this new obsession leads him to defy parental authority. Pusga gently opens the boy's eyes to the visible and invisible ways of nature. Rabi starts to understand liberty, responsibility and respect for life. In turn he awakens long buried sentiments in the grandfather.
In the first half of the 1990s, Drissa Touré was an auteur fast on the rise, with his first fiction feature, Laada (1991), celebrating its world premiere in a Cannes sidebar, from whence it went around the world, Rotterdam included. Touré's next narrative project, Haramuya (1995), was again welcomed warmly and seen widely. But what happened then? How could an obviously gifted filmmaker from one of world cinema's true hubs, Burkina Faso, not find the means to continue? How did Touré end up riding a motorcycle, doing deliveries and errands? The fact that only a few years after Haramuya's release, Atria, the organisation where Touré deepened his technical knowledge of filmmaking, was closed down as the last francs of support were cancelled suggests that Touré's story is also a symptom of something more structural and grim.
In a small village in Burkina Faso, a young boy discovers his superhuman abilities and must navigate the challenges of being a superhero.
Boromo, Burkina Faso. When Rasmané finds out that his friend Pierre has died, he sets off for his home town to help his family to transport the body home for his funeral. However, Rasmané hasn't reckoned with the traditional village elders who are strictly against them paying their last respects to a non-believer in the village. For Rasmané it is the beginning of an odyssey through Burkina Faso, as it turns out its not so straightforward to get the body of a man buried who was not baptised, does not have a Muslim first name and was not a member of any of the country's religious communities.
After marrying a girl from his native village, Sokuro, a young Burkinabe immigrant living in Italy, tries to build a future with her despite the distance that separates their two worlds.
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 band, the Atikamekw of northern Quebec. The resulting documentary is a dialogue between those who divine the future in the sand with those who use snow-encased sweat lodges to reconnect with the spiritual world.
Like a modern-day version of Deadwood, a makeshift gold mine on the remote Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has attracted a swarm of gold-diggers and dynamite blasters, healers and dealers, vendors and prostitutes, children, holy men and barbers. Living in the promiscuous closeness of a crowded and improvised gold town, these men and women are recklessly determined to find the gold that will change their lives. The film explores their desperate quest for fortune and elusive happiness. The gold rush is relentless.