Cinema of Burkina Faso
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Art film aficionados consider the film industry in Burkina Faso to be the best in West Africa, if not in Africa, with advanced production and distribution facilities. There are several production companies and some camera and production equipment available locally, but no postproduction facilities or film lab. Many films shot in the country by local directors have found ready markets in Francophone Europe and several have received assistance from the French Ministry of Co-operation. While these award-winning films are well known in Europe and are regularly featured in African studies courses abroad, they are little known beyond academic circles in Africa itself.
Recent features include:
- Silmande Tourbillon (1998), directed by S.PierreYamégo.
- Garba (1998), directed by Adama Roamba.
- Buud Yam (1997), directed by Gaston Kaboré.
- Kini and Adams (1997), directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo.
- Le Truc De Konate (1998), directed by Fanta Regina Nacro.
- Delwende, lève-toi e marche ("get up and walk") (2005), directed by Pierre Yameogo.
Burkina Faso is considered one of the key players in the African film industry. Every two years it hosts the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), which takes place 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, has 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.
