Yaaba means grandmother in the Mooré language. Yaaba is also the name given by Bila, a twelve-year-old boy, to Sana, an old woman abandoned and rejected by the entire village. Yaaba is, above all, the story of a friendship that is born and grows between two people in a rural society where we discover man as he is: good, evil, generous, intolerant. 'Yaaba' is based on the memory of a childhood story and a form of night-time education that is acquired at home between the ages of seven and ten just before bedtime, when one is lucky enough to have a grandmother.
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Born in 1945 in Banfora, Burkina Faso, he died in 2018 in his native country. After training at the African Institute of Film Studies in Ouagadougou (INAFEC), he became a civil servant at his country's Directorate of Film Production and made his first short film, ‘Poko’ (1981). In 1985, he graduated from the IDHEC in Paris and filmed countless documentaries for television before taking the leap to feature-length and fiction films with ‘Y:am Daabo’ (‘The Choice’, 1986). His films have been selected and won awards at the world's top festivals. ‘Grandmother’ (1989, which competed for the Golden Spike in Valladolid) and ‘The Law’ (1990) received the Critics' Award and the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, respectively. 'Samba Traoré' (1993) won the Special Jury Prize in Berlin; and 'The Heart’s Cry' (1994) received a Special Mention in Venice. He also filmed 'Kini & Adams' (1997) in English and participated in the omnibus film '11'09'01', which opened Seminci in 2003 and was nominated for a César Award.
Freddy Denaës, Michel David, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Pierre-Alain Meier
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Arcadia Films, Les Films de l'Avenir, Thelma Film, La Sept, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Federal Office of Cultural Affairs and Federal Department of Foreign Afffairs
CAST
Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo, Amadé Toure, Sibidou Ouédraogo, Adama Sidibe, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Freddy Denaës, Michel David, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Pierre-Alain Meier
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Arcadia Films, Les Films de l'Avenir, Thelma Film, La Sept, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Federal Office of Cultural Affairs and Federal Department of Foreign Afffairs
CAST
Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo, Amadé Toure, Sibidou Ouédraogo, Adama Sidibe, Rasmané Ouédraogo
