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Official submission of Burkina Faso for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 62th Academy Awards in 1990.

Filmed in a Mossi (More) village in Ouahigouya Department, in north-central Burkina Faso.

The white thing that Nopoko wears on her brow is a cowrie shell, a traditional unit of currency and piece of jewelry in West Africa.