People
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé as Self | 2022-05-17 |
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' as Self | 2003-07-01 |
The Pariahs of Cinema as Himself | 1997-01-01 |
10,000 Years of Cinema | 1991-01-01 |
The Making of Yaaba as Himself | 1989-01-02 |
Ouaga | 1988-12-04 |