Best award winning movies with visual storytelling from Burkina Faso
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with visual storytelling from Burkina Faso! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with visual storytelling from Burkina Faso, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Moolaadé (2004)
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
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- 2004-08-04 | Drama
Cast
- Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Rating
7.1
2 Dreams of Dust (2008)
Nigerian farmer Mocktar comes to Essakane, a dusty gold mining camp in Burkina Faso, seeking work. Haunted by a tragedy-laden past, Mocktar stoically adapts to the horrid working conditions of his fellow miners. Enter the beautiful widow Coumba, who shares Mocktar's endurance but dreams of a better life.
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- 2008-01-30 | Drama
Cast
- Makena Diop, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Rating
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7.1
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3 The Night of Truth (2004)
La Nuit de la Vérité is situated in an imaginary West African country. After ten years of civil war between the government army of the Nayak, led by 'Le président', and the Bonande rebels led by Colonel Theo, there is some sign of peace negotiations. But not everyone is in favor of peace and one can feel the tension. The night of truth starts with a festive dinner, but the village idiot Tomoto always seems capable of ruining the attempts for peace with violence and provocation.
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- 2004-05-19 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Moussa Cissé, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Rating
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5.0
4 Adanggaman (2000)
In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his captured mother. Chasing after the soldiers in an effort to free her, Ossei is befriended by a fierce warrior named Naka.
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- 2000-08-31 | Drama
Cast
- Albertine N'Guessan, Ziable Honoré Goore Bi
Rating
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6.6
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5 The Law (1990)
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 begin an affair, although it would be considered incestuous.
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- 1990-09-24 | Romance / Drama
Cast
- Rasmané Ouédraogo, Ina Cissé
Rating
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6.8
6 Sarraounia (1986)
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
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- 1986-07-01 | War / Drama
Cast
- Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo
Rating
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5.8
7 Sango Malo (1990)
Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio.
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- 1990-01-02 | Drama
Cast
- Jeanne Abanda, Epaye Monny Akwa
Rating
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5.0
8 Rabi (1992)
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.
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- 1992-09-01 | Drama
Cast
- Joseph Nikiema, Joséphine Kaboré
Rating
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5.8