Aïcha Boro

Chloé Aïcha Boro Letterier (born 24 May 1978) is a Burkinabé film director and screenwriter.

Biography Boro grew up in Ouagadougou near the Balolé quarry. She studied modern literature and pursued a career as a journalist.

In 2012, she directed her first film, Sur les traces de Salimata. Boro came out with her first feature-length documentary, Farafin Ko, in 2014. In 2017, she directed France-Aurevoir, le nouveau commerce triangulaire. It was named Best Documentary at the Festival international de cinéma Vues d’Afrique in Montreal. It received the Best Feature Documentary at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou.

Al Djanat: The Original Paradise, Boro's 2023 documentary, follows her on her return to Burkina Faso upon the death of her uncle. The film had its world premiere at Fespaco in 2023 and went on to screen internationally at festivals that included the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Visions du Réel, DOC NYC, and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Al Djanat was awarded the Al Jazeera-Encounters Best African Documentary at the Encounters South Africa International Documentary Film Festival, the Jury Award at Major Docs (Spain) and the Primer Premio Largometraje Documental award at El Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina (FICAA).

Filmography 2012: Sur les traces de Salimata 2014: Farafin Ko 2017: France-Aurevoir, le nouveau commerce triangulaire 2019: Le Loup d'or de Balolé 2023: Al Djanat: The Original Paradise

Awards

2019, Golden Stallion Prize for “The Golden Wolf of Balolé”