YAABA — Idrissa Ouedraogo

14 x 19 cm / 96 pages + DVD/Blu-ray / November 2023 

• The DVD / BLU-RAY

- YAABA

A film by Idrissa Ouedraogo

Restored version

Original Moré version with French and English subtitles

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Bila, a 10-year-old boy, and his cousin Nopoko live happily in their Sahelian village. One day, they come across Sana, an old woman who is shunned by the villagers, who accuse her of witchcraft. Sana and Bila become friends and inseparable.

• BONUS 

- Let's talk about grandma by Djibril Diop Mambety

(documentary, 34 min., 1989, restored version)

With hilarious, wry and tender humour, the cult director of Touki Bouki films the making of Yaaba: the ups and downs of filming in Burkina Faso.

- Notre cinéma à nous by Joëlle Dufour

(documentary, 26 mins, 1989)

Idrissa Ouedraogo on the set of A Karim Na Sala, a leafy sequel to Yaaba.

- Letter to my mother by Gaël Teicher

(documentary, 4 min., 1989)

On the set of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouedraogo seen as the hero of a classic western.

• BOOK

- still photographs by Freddy Denaës

- Yaaba c'est Lilian Gish’, a text by Gaël Teicher (in French only)

- filmography of Idrissa Ouedraogo