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A still from Apolline Traoré's film, 'Sira.'
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A still from Apolline Traoré's film, 'Sira.'
The Burkinabè director has picked up prizes at the Berlin Film Festival and Fespaco for her latest film, 'Sira,' but it's the need to bear witness and highlight what is going on in her own home country that drives her work.