Buud Yam

{{Infobox film

| name = Buud Yam

| image = Buudyam.jpg

| caption =

| director = Gaston Kaboré

| producer = Gaston Kaboré{{cite news

| title = Buud Yam

| work = Variety

| url = https://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/134460/Buud%20Yam.html?dataSet=1

| accessdate =2008-01-16

}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}

| writer = Gaston Kaboré

| narrator =

| starring = Serge Yanogo

| music = Michel Portal

| cinematography = Jean-Noël Ferragut

| editing = Marie-Jeanne Kanyala
Didier Ranz

| distributor = Africa Film Library

| released = {{Film date|1997|09|10|France}}

| runtime = 97 minutes

| country = Burkina Faso

| language = More{{cite book

| last = Eke

| first = Maureen N.

|author2=Kenneth W. Harrow |author3=Emmanuel Yewah

| title = African Images: Recent Studies and Text in Cinema

| publisher = Africa World Press

| year = 2000

| pages = 31–39

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jHhfkH8GD18C

| isbn =978-0-86543-819-4 }}

| budget =

| gross =

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Buud Yam is a 1997 Burkinabé historical drama film written and directed by Gaston Kaboré. It is the sequel to the film Wend Kuuni. As of 2001, it was the most popular African film ever in Burkina Faso.{{cite web

| last = Steinglass

| first = Matt

| title = Open Windows On Distant Worlds; In Burkina Faso, An African Cannes

| publisher = The New York Times Company

| year = 2001

| url = http://www.polepole123.com/PressPix/BK_filmfest.htm

| accessdate =2008-01-16 }}

The title's meaning is unclear: buud can mean both "ancestors" and "descendants", while yam means "spirit" or "intelligence."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2SyDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Buud+Yam%22+soul&pg=PT291|title=Contemporary African Cinema|first=Olivier|last=Barlet|author-link=Olivier Barlet|date=1 August 2016|publisher=MSU Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9781628952704}} It has been translated as Soul of the Group.{{cite journal|title="I am a Storyteller, Drawing Water from the Well of My Culture": Gaston Kaboré, Griot of African Cinema|first1=Michael T.|last1=Martin|first2=Gaston|last2=Kaboré|date=30 August 2018|journal=Research in African Literatures|volume=33|issue=4|pages=161–179|jstor = 3820506}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZ4pAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Buud+Yam%22+soul|title=Research in African Literatures|date=30 August 2018|publisher=African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center, University of Texas [at Austin|via=Google Books}}