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Burkina Faso, West Africa. Poverty and misery breaks out with a vengeance in Gourga, a village within the borders of the Sahel. For the people of the country, a choice has to be made: either await international assistance or travel further inland to the richer preas of the country. Salam, a peasant, and his family opt for the second solution, with all the sacrifices that this entails. A new life can now begin for them. They discover love, joy, hate, violence, feelings which hunger and thirst had made them forget.

A family struggles to survive the harsh drought and deadly famine in this engaging drama. A farming family consisting of an aging mother and father travel South with their young son Ali, their marriageable daughter Bintou, and her sweetheart Salam. When they stop in the city to sell their donkey, young Ali is struck by a car and killed. The group continues and eventually meets up with friends who take in the beleaguered travelers. Bintou and Salam anticipate the birth of their baby when the family reaches the lush greenery of the South.

	
Yam.Daabo.1987.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-0BSiDiAN.mkv

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Language(s):Moré, French
Subtitles:English

The post Idrissa Ouedraogo – Yam Daabo AKA The Choice (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Samba Traoré had left his village years ago to seek his fortune in the big city. He has found only unemployment and rootlessness. As the film begins, he is part of a filling station holdup in which his partner is killed but Samba Traoré, determined, takes the money at gunpoint.

He returns to his village, hides the money, and lets out that he has been successful and now wants to live at home. He resumes old friendships. He marries. His impulses run away with him as opportunities arise to spend more and more of the money. At first people just think he did well in the city. Then they think he did amazingly well. Then they think that they never dreamed anyone could make so much money. Finally his trail becomes so obvious that the police hear of him.

Like many of the film makers that Joan and I really admire, Idrissa Ouédraogo is a humanist. He is not primarily concerned with plot, but with people. The plot of Samba Traoré is rudimentary. It’s only there because at each turn of the plot the context in which his characters live changes and so they act and express new sides of themselves. We come to see them with great subtlety. Samba Traoré himself, for example, is sometimes generous in sharing with his friends, but he overreacts with possessiveness when his girlfriend is visited by an old boyfriend. At other times he might be anywhere in between these extremes. One doesn’t find these differences contradictory; one is moved and amazed at how richly complex people are.

Ouédraogo draws these portraits sharply. When Samba Traoré attacks the boyfriend or the service station operator, there is no motive of personal malice or vindictiveness or greed or brutality; his motive is simply that his own needs come first and he is accordingly direct and practical but relentless.

Ouédraogo is constantly aware of the physical landscape in which his characters live. He photographs the details of the people, of the countryside, and of the village with loving respect. He seems to be saying, “Look at these ordinary things. These people are living in paradise.”

Samba Traoré is a fine film, entertaining and touching, within the great humanist tradition. but with a distinctively African way of thought and expression.

William P. Coleman.

Samba.Traore.1993.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Gloft.mkv

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Language(s):More, Dyula, French
Subtitles:English

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Tilaï opens to a long sequence, off-axis shot of a lone traveler moving away from view as he slowly traverses the arid, featureless plain on a lumbering, overburdened mule and disappears into the desolate horizon. It is an appropriately distanced and alienated introduction for the weary, but sanguine Saga (Rasmane Ouedraogo) who, after an extended journey away from his native village, has returned to the foreboding sight of anxious villagers assembled at a clearing near the entrance of the intimate community. Greeted by his brother Kougri (Assane Ouedraogo) who heads off Saga at the footpath to the village on behalf of the family, Kougri informs him of an unforeseen (and reprehensible) development during his absence: the marriage of his beloved Nogma (Ina Cissé) to their father Nomenaba (Seydou Ouedraogo), having changed his mind and taken the reluctant young woman – once promised to Saga by the old man himself – as his second wife. Unwilling to accept Nomenaba’s feckless and inconsiderate act, Saga defies his father’s demands to return home and instead, decides to build a hut away from the village on a self-imposed exile from the inconsiderate elder. Deliberately insulated from the tribal repercussions of Saga’s disobedience over the complicated affair, Nogma’s curious and well-intentioned younger sister Kuilga (Roukietou Barry) stumbles upon Saga’s new habitation and subsequently brings the unhappily married Nogma to the location, unwittingly sowing the seeds of temptation for the unrequited couple.

Idrissa Ouedraogo creates a distilled, lucid, and incisive cautionary tale of obdurate pride, self-righteous rationalization, and archaic traditions in Tilaï. By setting the film in pre-colonial Africa, Ouedraogo eschews the implication of external, social and ethno-political factors in order to present a culturally indigenous, yet universal examination of the bifurcation of tribal law (or more broadly, social custom) and moral judgment in the governance of everyday life (note a similar atemporality in the depiction of coercively imposed, ancient customs in Keisuke Kinoshita’s Narayama Bushiko and Shohei Imamura’s subsequent re-adaptation, The Ballad of Narayama). Ouedraogo’s economic, but exquisitely realized compositions capture the pervasive austerity of landscape through predominantly medium and long shots that illustrate a paradoxical coexistence between an openness of environment and an intrusiveness of social setting inherent in village life: low property walls that preserve (if not foster) communality; expansive and desolate topography that aggregates population into localized, autonomous tribes for mutual cooperation; scarcity of population that engenders dubious (if not self-serving) laws by tribal elders to ensure survival and continuity of the community (and implicitly, their own ancestral lineage). In the end, it is this corruptive and implicitly incestuous relationship between entrusted authority and personal vanity that is reflected in Saga and Nogma’s seemingly star-crossed destiny: the breakdown of humanity in the absence of humility, compromise, forgiveness, and acceptance of human frailty.

Idrissa Ouedraogo - (1990) The Law.mkv

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Language(s):Moré
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese

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A simple story about the status of old people in African society told with amazing grace”. A small african village. 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.

Shot in the director’s homeland of Burkina Faso, the film is both lush and minimalist, sensual and barren. Gangly trees dominate the horizon, towering with equal indifference over the scrub vegetation and the thatched mud huts and the villagers. In Ouedraogo’s hands, nature becomes an arena for myth, a sun-hammered stage for the spinning of tales.

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https://nitro.download/view/495286881BF96EB/Idrissa_Ouedraogo_-_(1989)_Grandmother.mkv

Language:More
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Russian

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