Filmed in Tougouzague village, Yaaba follows ten-year-old Bila's friendship with Sana, an old woman shunned by the village as a witch whom he calls Yaaba, meaning grandmother, and won the Sakura Gold prize at the 1989 Tokyo Film Festival.
Fun fact: It was selected as Burkina Faso's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1990 Academy Awards, though it did not receive a nomination.