Celebrity Biographies
Idrissa Ouedraogo
He achieved international repercussion with “The Wrath of the Gods” and “Tilaï”. Burkinabe film director Idrissa Ouedraogo passed away on February 28, 2018 at the age of 64. “Africa is losing one of its best ambassadors in the field of culture,” said Roch Christian Kabore, president of Burkina Faso.
Born on January 21, 1954 in Banfora, he came from a family of farmers. He graduated in Arts, later enrolling in the African Institute of Film Studies.
He debuted as a director with Yam Daabo , from 1986, although Yaaba (Grandma) , from 1989, had a greater impact, a simple but moving portrait of the relationship between Bila, a 10-year-old boy, and Sana, an old woman whom everyone calls ” witch”, but that he prefers to call “grandmother”. He won the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival. With the family drama Tilaï , about the traditions of a Burkinabe family, he won the grand prize of the jury of the same competition, in 1989.
His filmography also includes a segment dedicated to his country in Lumière y compañía , one of the pieces by the also collective 11’09”01. September 11 , and The Wrath of the Gods , from 2003, about a prince who after being crowned to the death of his father becomes a tyrant.