Born in Banfora, Burkina Faso, in 1954 and dying in Ouagadougou in 2018, Idrissa Ouédraogo studied at the Institut africain d'études cinématographiques in Ouagadougou and then at the Sorbonne, and made village-set stories of tradition, loyalty and desire with warmth and a classical simplicity. Yaaba (1989), a tale of a boy and an old woman outcast as a witch, won the critics' prize at Cannes. Tilaï (1990), a tragedy of a man who returns to find his betrothed has been married to his father, won the Grand Prix of the Jury at Cannes. He made Samba Traoré (1992) next.
Filmography
- Yam Daabo (1987)
- Yaaba (1989)
- Tilaï (1990)
- Samba Traoré (1992)
- Le Cri du cœur (1994)
- Kini and Adams (1997)