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Yaaba

ORIGINAL TITLE

Yaaba

YEAR

1989

RUNNING TIME

90 min.

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COUNTRY

DIRECTOR

Idrissa Ouedraogo

SCREENWRITER

Idrissa Ouedraogo

COMPOSER

Francis Bebey

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Matthias Kälin

CAST

Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouedraogo, Amadé Toure, Assita Ouedraogo

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Co-production Burkina Faso / Switzerland / France

AWARDS

1989: Cannes: FIPRESCI Award (International Critics

GENRE

Drama

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

A small african village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bilas cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicin who rescues her.
"Yaaba" won the FIPRESCI prize (International Critics Prize) in Cannes Film Festival 1989 (Tied with "Sex, Lies, and Videotape")

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