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Yaaba
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73/100
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Lowest is AlloCiné on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 93.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine that saves her.
Details
- Director
- Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Writer
- Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Released
- 23 August 1989
- Country
- Burkina Faso, Switzerland, France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Budget
- $750.0K
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1990 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Burkina Faso | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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×| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Burkina Faso | Nominee |