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Sira

Name: Sira
Released: 2023

2023

After a jihadist attack in the Sahel leaves her stranded in the desert, a young nomadic woman refuses to submit to her captors and, alone and resourceful, plots her resistance. A fierce, feminist survival drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Burkina Faso

This film is stop 4 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Burkina Faso. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Burkina Faso in the 196 country film challenge.