S. Pierre Yaméogo

Saint Pierre Yaméogo was born on 15 May 1955 in Koudougou and left for France at twenty, where he studied at the University of Paris VIII and at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français. After short films on the condition of immigrants, he made six feature films between 1987 and 2011, one of which won a prize at Fespaco and another the prize of hope at Cannes in 2005, on women accused of witchcraft. He founded a production company in Paris that also backed the films of other African filmmakers, and died in Ouagadougou on 1 April 2019.

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• CinemaSilmandéS. Pierre Yaméogo · 1998Cinema