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Burkina Faso film maker recalls golden era of cinema before insurgency

Drissa Toure, a former film director and SYA movies festival jury member, sits with his colleague Kolo Sanou as they prepare to watch a series of movies at the culture house room in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Paso, December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Ndiaga Thiam

Film producer Drissa Toure peered through the locked glass doors of what was once the lively cinema in Burkina Faso's southwestern city of Bobo-Dioulasso and remembered a time when locals could enjoy films from Africa and beyond on its screen.

Today the 70-year-old struggles with respiratory illness and ekes out a living ferrying people and parcels on his scooter. He treasures the magazine clippings that lauded his earlier film work and the medals he collected.

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