Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is an important biannual African film festival and is the largest African film festival known.
The most prestigious award given out at the festival is the "Étalon de Yennenga" (Standard of Yennenga), named in reference to the mythical founder of the Mossi empire. The "Étalon de Yennenga" is awarded to the African film that best shows "Africa's realities".
Last Year's award winners are as follows:
20th FESPACO (2007)
First Prize (Étalon de Yenenga): Ezra by Newton Aduaka (Nigeria)
Second Prize: Les Saignantes by Jean Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon)
Third Prize: Daratt (Saison Seche) by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)
Oumarou Ganda Prize: Barakat! by Djamila Sahraoui (Algeria)
Paul Robeson Prize: Le President a-t-il le sida by Arnold Atonin (Haiti)
Best Documentary: Ejido, La loi du profit de Rhalib Jawad (Morocco)
Best Short Film: Menged by Daniel Taye Workou (Ethiopia)
Best Actor: Lofti Abdelli in Making Off (Tunisia)
Best Actress: Adèle Ado & Calmel Dorelia in Les saignantes (Cameroon)
Best Screenplay: Barakat by Djamila Sahraoui (Algeria)
Best Cinematography: Daratt (Saison Seche) by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)
Best Editing: Nouri Bouzid for Making Off (Tunisia)
Best Original Score: Barakat by Djamila Sahraoui (Algeria)
Best Sound Editing: L'ombre de Liberty by Imunga Ivanga (Gabon)
'Yaaba' won Best Original Score in the 11th Fespaco in (1989).
