film profile], had its world premiere in the Panorama section of this year's Berlinale. The co-production between Burkina Faso and France is a deeply touching drama with an inspiring female ...

Burkinabé filmmaker Apolline Traoré's feature "Sira" tells the story of a young woman abducted by jihadists who draws on her wits and courage to survive. Offering a rare insight into the lives of ...

Addressing some of the same themes of Islamist militancy and the position of women as Abderrahmane Sissako’s 2014 art-house success Timbuktu, Sira is set in the present day Sahel, the region that ...

Paris-based sales company Wide has boarded worldwide rights to Apolline Traoré’s Sira ahead of the film’s world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama. Wide will kick off sales for the co-production from ...

Here's a list of Apolline Traoré Movies and TV Shows available to watch on SBS On Demand. Explore the available titles below and start streaming for free. After a brutal attack, a young nomad refuses ...

Last week, Deserances premiered at the Urbanworld Film Festival in NYC and we can’t wait for you to see this powerful foreign film starring Claws alum, Jimmy Jean-Louis. Directed by African Director ...

At the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, or FESPACO, African cinema has freed itself from Western models, with women leading the way. Sira can hardly wait: The female nomad is ...

There are those who wait for change and those who make it. In the World Bank Africa’s new series, “Women of Action: Stories of Change”, we discover the stories of diverse women and how they’re ...