Issaka Sawadogo

Acting

Issaka Sawadogo

Born 1966-05-18 · Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Isaka Sawadogo (born 1966), sometimes credited as Issaka Sawadogo, is a Burkinabé actor. He is most noted for his performances in the Canadian film Diego Star, for which he received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Actor at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014, and the Dutch film The Paradise Suite, for which he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor at the 2016 Netherlands Film Festival. In 2020, he appeared in a supporting role in Philippe Lacôte's film Night of the Kings (La Nuit des rois). In 2021 he played the lead role in Jorge Camarotti's short film Ousmane. Source: Article "Isaka Sawadogo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Io Capitano poster
7.8

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.

Io Capitano

2023

The Site poster
5.6

Vincent works the night shift on the construction site of a futuristic district. When a worker goes missing, Vincent and his colleagues suspect that their superiors are covering up an accident. But soon another worker disappears.

The Site

2026

Samba poster
6.3

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

Samba

2014

The Invader poster
5.5

An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.

The Invader

2011

Belleville Cop poster
5.0

When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.

Belleville Cop

2018

Ballen i øyet poster
5.0

While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.

Ballen i øyet

2000

In His Shadow poster
6.3

After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.

In His Shadow

2023

Walter poster
5.6

For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell .

Walter

2019

Maman poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maman

2024

No artwork available
NR

Ambitious Cape Verdean medical student Artur struggles with his responsibilities.

Cabo

2012

No Chains, No Masters poster
6.5

1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate.

No Chains, No Masters

2024

Yesterday poster
4.4

50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.

Yesterday

2018

Sounds of Sand poster
6.1

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.

Sounds of Sand

2007

The Paradise Suite poster
6.6

The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.

The Paradise Suite

2015

Night of the Kings poster
6.6

A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

Night of the Kings

2021

No artwork available
NR

The refugee Matthew wait in the outfit centre schiphol East for its flight to Sudan. If that of but, Arash, a despair action commits, Matthew get suddenly the chance of escaping

Arash

2012

The Three Scoundrels 2 poster
NR

The day after their disastrous escapade, our three scoundrels, although publicly forgiven, face the persistent bad mood of their wives. One idea emerges: to offer them a dream weekend by the sea in Côte D'ivoire. The plan goes as planned in Assinie, until... the charming delegation of the Miss O'Tentik pageant arrives to rehearse their ceremony.

The Three Scoundrels 2

2026

Hood Witch poster
6.0

A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn facing a violent backlash.

Hood Witch

2023

Grill poster
9.5

Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into uncomfortable situations. Inspired by true events, "Grill" offers a satirical look at how a rich country in Scandinavia deals with poverty.

Grill

2023

Mali Twist poster
6.4

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.

Mali Twist

2022

Quand sort la recluse poster
5.9

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

Quand sort la recluse

2019

Adú poster
6.9

In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.

Adú

2020

The Black Lapp poster
6.0

Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl's age, her son Peder, and her black adopted son, Ante, that arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.

The Black Lapp

2003

No artwork available
5.2

A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to integrate in Norwegian society. Exoticore is a touching tale about modern-day people trying to find their place in this world. A film about being a foreigner, about solitude and contemporary insanity. A dark journey into exoticism.

Exoticore

2004