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Yaaba

1989

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo ...

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Drama 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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