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 independent film company, "The Future of Films", which became "Les Films de la Plaine". In 1981, before moving to Kiev, he worked for the Burkina Faso Directorate of Cinema Production (Direction de la Production Cinématographique du Burkina Faso), where he directed several short films.

Known For

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

10,000 Years of Cinema

A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé

The Making of Yaaba

All Movies (6)

• A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé2022 · as Self
• Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush2003 · as Self
• The Pariahs of Cinema1997 · as Himself
• 10,000 Years of Cinema1991
• The Making of Yaaba1989 · as Himself
• Ouaga1988