The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Burkina Faso
This page contains a list of the greatest Burkinabe Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 2 of which were born in Burkina Faso. This makes Burkina Faso the birth place of the 62nd most number of Film Directors behind Mauritania and Belarus.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burkinabe Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Burkinabe Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Idrissa Ouédraogo (1954 - 2018)
With an HPI of 46.03, Idrissa Ouédraogo is the most famous Burkinabe Film Director. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was a Burkinabé filmmaker. His work often explored the conflict between rural and city life and tradition and modernity in his native Burkina Faso and elsewhere in Africa. He is best known for his feature film Tilaï, which won the Grand Prix at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and Samba Traoré (1993), which was nominated for the Silver Bear award at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
2. Gaston Kaboré (1951 - )
With an HPI of 42.11, Gaston Kaboré is the 2nd most famous Burkinabe Film Director. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Gaston Kaboré (born 1951) is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry. He has won awards for his films Wend Kuuni and Buud Yam. He is the founder of Imagine Institute, a school he opened in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2003, that provides workshops and residencies for film and television professionals.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as film directors born between 1951 and 1954. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living film directors include Gaston Kaboré. The most famous deceased film directors include Idrissa Ouédraogo. As of April 2022, 1 new film directors have been added to Pantheon including Gaston Kaboré.
