Yaaba

{{Infobox film

| name = Yaaba

| image =Yaaba.jpg

| caption =Film poster

| director = Idrissa Ouedraogo

| producer = Arcadia Films, Les Films de l'avenir, Télévision suisse romande, Thelma Film AG

| writer = Idrissa Ouedraogo

| screenplay = Idrissa Ouédraogo

| starring =Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouedraogo, Amadé Tour

| music = Francis Bebey

| cinematography = Matthias Kälin

| editing = Loredana Cristelli

| distributor =New Yorker Films (U.S.)

| released = {{film date|1989|9|14|TIFF}}

| runtime =90 minutes

| country = Burkina Faso
Switzerland
France

| language =Mòoré

| budget =

| gross =$55,000

}}

Yaaba is a 1989 Burkinabé drama film written, produced, and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo, "one of the best known films from francophone sub-Saharan Africa".{{cite book|author=Teresa Hoefert de Turégano|title=African Cinema and Europe: Close-up on Burkina Faso|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=behiQgAACAAJ|year=2004|publisher=European Press Academic Pub.|isbn=978-88-8398-031-2|pages=175–180}} It won the Sakura Gold prize at the 1989 Tokyo Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1989_659025/tokyo-film-festival-gives-big-cash-awards.html |title=Tokyo film festival gives big cash awards |access-date=2011-08-23|work=chron.com}} The film was selected as the Burkinabé entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The film was the subject of a short documentary Parlons Grand-mère, which was shot during the film's production by Djibril Diop Mambéty.