Burkinabe filmmaker.
To his despair, the lion-king “Weogho-Naaba” has only daughters. One day, his wife lays an egg. The king sets off to find a wife for his son, but she is most disappointed to see that her future husband is an egg! – and decides to use magic to hatch him.
With Moustapha Dao’s second short film “The painter’s Nephew” (1989), he is involved in the adaptation of African tales through the story of young Ali whose nights are disturbed by the characters’ tales his grandmother tells him.
After school closes, the street children roam the streets playing games, an inexhaustible source of learning. First larceny, street fights, the first feelings of love, football, cinema, dance, cooking, making toys or musical instruments.
