Idrissa Ouedraogo

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Idrissa Ouédraogo is a film director born 21 January 1954 in Banfora, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).

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.

Studied at the IDHEC in France.

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
• Ouédraogo on Kini and Adams