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Idrissa Ouedraogo (born 21 January 1954 in Banfora, Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso) is a film director from Burkina Faso. He is best known for his films Yaaba and Tilaï.

Idrissa Ouedraogo is a graduate of the African Institute for Cinema Studies (Institut Africain d’Etudes Cinématographiques) in Ouagadougou. In 1981 he began to work for the Burkina Faso Directorate of Cinema Production (Direction de la Production Cinématographique du Burkina Faso), where he directed several short films. The short film Poko won the short film prize at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 1981. After studying in Kiev in the USSR he moved to Paris, where he graduated from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques IDHEC in 1985

Ouédraogo won the Cannes 1990 Special Jury Prize for his film Tilaï (The Law) (1990), and the Fipresci award for his 1989 film Yam Daabo.

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