Idrissa Ouedraogo

Biography

Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), in 1954. He grew up in the town of Ouahigouya in the northern region of his homeland, and in 1976 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. To ensure a better life his farmer parents sent him to Ouagadougou for further education, where he attended the African Institute for Cinema Studies (Institut Africain d’Etudes Cinématographiques) completing his studies in 1981 with a masters. After studying in Kiev in the USSR he moved to Paris, where he graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in 1985 with a DEA from the Sorbonne. On graduating from IAFEC in 1981, Ouédraogo set up his own independent film company, "The Future of Films", which became "Les Films de la Plaine". In 1981, before moving to Kiev, he worked for the Burkina Faso Directorate of Cinema Production (Direction de la Production Cinématographique du Burkina Faso), where he directed several short films.

Directed

1. September 11 (2002) — Director
2. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
3. Yaaba (1989) — Director
4. The Law (1990) — Director
5. Samba Traoré (1993) — Director
6. The Choice (1987) — Director
7. Kini & Adams (1997) — Director
8. The Heart's Cry (1995) — Director
9. Africa, My Africa... (1994) — Director
10. Stories on Human Rights (2008) — Director
11. The Pariahs of Cinema (1997) — Director
12. The Birthday (2008) — Director
13. The Bowls (1983) — Director
14. Issa le Tisserand (1985) — Director
15. Obi (1991) — Director
16. Ouagadougou, ouaga deux roues (1984) — Director
17. Poko (1981) — Director
18. Anger of the Gods (2003) — Director
19. Karim and Sala (1991) — Director
20. Les Funérailles du Larlé Naaba (1985) — Director
21. Interactions - When Cinema Looks to Nature (2022) — Director
22. Burkina Faso (2002) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003) — Self
2. The Pariahs of Cinema (1997) — Himself
3. The Making of Yaaba (1989) — Himself
4. A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé (2022) — Self
5. Ouaga (1988)
6. 10,000 Years of Cinema (1991)