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African cinema
Cinema of Burkina Faso Cinema of Egypt Cinema of Kenya Cinema of Morocco Cinema of Niger Cinema of Nigeria Cinema of Somalia Cinema of South Africa Cinema of the Diaspora

Cinema in Burkina Faso is an important part of West African and African film industry.^[1]

Facilities

Burkina Faso has the most advanced production and distribution facilities in West Africa, if not Africa as a whole. However, while Burkina Faso has several production companies and some camera and production equipment available in the nation, it has no post-production facilities or film laboratories.^{citation needed}

Distribution

A cinema in Bobo-Dioulasso

Many films shot in Burkina Faso by local directors have found distribution in Francophone Europe and several have received assistance from the French Ministry of Co-operation. However, while these films have won awards in Europe and are regularly featured in African Studies courses, in Africa itself they are little known outside of academic circles.^{citation needed}

Festivals and schools

Burkina Faso hosts the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) every two years in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital.

In 2005 director Gaston Kaboré, who won the top prize at FESPACO in 1997 for his film Buud Yam, opened a training school for new filmmakers in Ouagadougou. The school, named Imagine, was built with millions of CFA of Kaboré's own money and opened its doors for the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou 2005.

Major feature films

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Burkinabé films

• Yaaba (1989), directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo.
• Tilaï (1990), directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo.
• Buud Yam (1997), directed by Gaston Kaboré.
• Kini and Adams (1997), directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo.
• Garba (1998), directed by Adama Roamba.
• Silmande Tourbillon (1998), directed by S.PierreYamégo.
• Le Truc De Konate (1998), directed by Fanta Regina Nacro.
• Delwende, lève-toi e marche ("get up and walk") (2005), directed by Pierre Yameogo.

See also

• World cinema
• African cinema

References

Notes

Sources

• Spaas, Lieve (2001). The Francophone Film: A Struggle for Identity. Manchester University Press, 232–246. ISBN 0719058619. 

External links

• Burkinabé film at the Internet Movie Database