Idrissa Ouedraogo

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Born January 21, 1954· Banfora, Upper Volta [now Burkina Faso]

† Died May 1, 2018

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Born in Banfora and raised in the northern town of Ouahigouya, he pursued cinema studies at the African Institute for Cinema Studies, earned a master’s degree in 1981, then refined his craft in Kiev before completing a DEA at Paris’s Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. Early short films such as Poko earned a prize at FESPACO, establishing his reputation for portraying the tensions betwe…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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Features 14

Short films 8