Kounandi

The award-winning Kounandi is that rarest of films : a film about African women by an African woman. It is the first major film by young Burkinabe director Apolline Traoré and was produced by celebrated director Idrissa Ouedraogo. The film makes a significant contribution to the tendency in African filmmaking, identified by Manthia Diawara as ‘a return to the sources.’ These films, characteristically set in simpler, pre-colonial village society, are told in the style of folktales. Kounandi is an adult fairy tale about love and the sacrifices it sometimes asks of us, but it also dares to address social conflict and prejudices. —IMDb