Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Iara Lee's feature-length documentary film Burkinabè Rising: The Art of ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The film festival crowd had filled the last seats in the Cine Neerwaya and, when there was no room left, sat four abreast in the aisles. The opening credits hardly dimmed ...

Sira, the tale of a woman's struggle for survival after being kidnapped by jihadis in the Sahel, has won high acclaim at the pan-African film awards. The feature, by Burkinabè director Apolline Traoré ...

African cinema is in a fix, yet at the top Burkinabé film festival, Katrina Manson finds no By Katrina Manson Amid the dust and the donkey carts, there is a sign here in Ouagadougou, bright red ...

Washington, DC — Sia, The Dream of the Python is a movie, portraying the classic folk story about sacrifice for the greater good. Burkina Faso filmmaker Dani Kouyate puts a unique twist on the play by ...

Africa’s top film festival heads to a climax on Saturday after a fierce debate about gender equality and sexual aggression in the continent’s movie industry. In its half-century of history, the ...

Africa's largest film festival, FESPACO in Burkina Faso, reflects the crises the continent currently faces. The films show a diverse picture of Africa. It is the first screening of Africa's largest ...

The work of the Burkinabé film-maker, including his award-winning 1990 film Tilaï, explored by Matthew Sweet and guests Boukary Sawadogo and Sarah Jilani. Show more Burkinabé film-maker Idrissa ...

A roundtable at Locarno’s 10th co-production lab also focussed on new local and regional initiatives that have recently been launched. Film-makers from Senegal and Burkina Faso took home two Open ...