Samba Traore

Samba robs a gas station in town and flees to the countryside. There, he meets Saratou, who has a son, and they fall in love. She becomes pregnant with his child. They marry, and Samba builds a house and a bar with the money from the robbery. However, he doesn’t tell anyone…

Erhard K

Idrissa Ouedraogo moral thriller, more crime and history than crime and punishment. Samba constructs a life in the village as he and we wait for the moment his actions will caught with him, but Ouedraogo isn't interested in a character study or psychology, but in…

Filipe Furtado

The richness of detail in Ouedraogo's images never stops overwhelming me; they are always so full of life, its sounds, movement, colors and light. A seemingly simply story like this turns into such a beautiful film quite easily when the filmmakers achieve the balance…

V. Lepistö

1st Idrissa Ouedraogo A film, as many have said here, less interested in the moral drama of a bankrobber returning home and more in the ramifications of his presence. That's not to say that people aren't interested in where his sudden wealth comes from, rather that it's of…

𝔻𝕠𝕔 𝕃𝕪𝕠𝕟

I feel bad for the new films, Locarno screened this restoration and reminded the audience what truly brilliant mise-en-scène is.

Graham L. Carter

83/100 A wonderful portrait of small village life and also a fine exploration of personal conscience and guilt. It gets tad darker towards the end but there are many beautiful little moments of joy and humour which are just so full of life and it feels so lived in. The…

Avirup

A moral fable of elegant purity, a man caught in the cruel machinations of a crime thriller cheerfully pretending to himself that he’s just improving his life. “I worked in a banana plantation,” Samba explains about the stack of money he brought back to his village after a…

jrhovind

La culpabilité pèse plus que la richesse mal acquise 🧏🏽‍♂️

Marow 🇹🇷

Locarno Pro Heritage Online. My first Burkinabé film and i couldn't be more happier to discover it. Directed by Idrisa Ouedraogo, the prominent Burkinabé film director. The premise seems simple yet it gives depiction of Burkina Faso's geopolitic, tradition, culture, and…

Feisal