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''Yaaba'' is a 1989 Burkinabé
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
written, produced, and directed by
Idrissa Ouedraogo Idrissa is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Idrissa Adam (born 1984), Cameroonian sprinter * Idrissa Camara, Guinean-born dancer and choreographer * Idrissa Camará (born 1992), Bissau-Guinean footballer *Idrissa Couli ...
, "one of the best known films from francophone sub-Saharan Africa". It won the Sakura Gold prize at the 1989
Tokyo Film Festival The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the ...
. The film was selected as the Burkinabé entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
at the
62nd Academy Awards The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1989 and took place on March 26, 1990, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p. ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The film was the subject of a short documentary '' Parlons Grand-mère'', which was shot during the film's production by
Djibril Diop Mambéty Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and ex ...
.


Plot

In a Mossi village in
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...
, Bila (Noufou Ouédraogo), a ten-year-old boy, makes friends with an old woman called Sana (Fatimata Sanga), who has been accused of witchcraft by her village, and has become a social outcast. Only Bila is respectful of her, and calls her ''yaaba'' (Grandmother). When Bila's cousin, Nopoko (Roukietou Barry), falls ill, a medicine man insists that Sana has stolen the girl's soul. Sana undergoes a long and gruelling but ultimately successful journey to find a medicine to save Nopoko's life, but is still treated as a witch. After Sana dies, the real reason why she is hated in the village is uncovered, but the love and wisdom she invested in Bila and Nopoko lives on.


Awards

*
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Prize (Cannes, 1989)


See also

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List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films pr ...
* List of Burkinabé submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film


References


External links

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''Cinema Then, Cinema Now: Yaaba''
a 1994 discussion of the film hosted by
Jerry Carlson Jerry Carlson has two intertwined careers, that of an academic and that of a maker of documentary films and television shows. Academic career Carlson is a specialist in narrative theory, global independent film, and the cinemas of the Americas. He ...
of
CUNY TV , mottoeng = The education of free people is the hope of Mankind , budget = $3.6 billion , established = , type = Public university system , chancellor = Fél ...
1989 films 1989 drama films Films directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo Films set in Burkina Faso More-language films Burkinabé independent films French independent films Swiss independent films Films set in pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa 1989 independent films Burkinabé drama films 1980s French films {{FESPACO Best Original Score Prize, state=expanded