FLICKS FILM & VIDEO FILE : Family Fun : An African production that won the 1989 Cannes Critics Prize will be shown at the Ojai Playhouse Sunday.

If you want movie entertainment appropriate for the whole family, Ventura County may have just what you’re looking for this week.

First up is the African production, “Yaaba,” winner of a Critics’ Prize at the 1989 Cannes Festival. It will be shown by the Ojai Film Society Sunday at the Ojai Playhouse.

Through each one of its distinctive cast of characters, “Yaaba” looks at life in a small, rural village in Burkina Faso, Africa.

The movie centers on two of those characters, a 12-year-old boy and an elderly woman that the townspeople have shunned because they consider her a witch.

The boy, something of an outcast himself, befriends the woman, and the two grow very close. Eventually, the boy calls the woman “Yaaba,” or grandmother.

“Yaaba” was written and directed by Idrissa Ouedrago and is based on stories from his childhood. It’s set in a town such as the one in which he grew up and stars members of his family.

Show time is 4:30 p.m.

Mike Janover of the Film Society said “Yaaba” recently was shown in Santa Fe, N.M., where it sold out a 200-seat theater for five days.

But Janover said he would be happy to see 50 to 100 people in Ojai on Sunday. But he said he fears that locals may not be interested in a strictly African film.

“We’ve had a couple of movies about apartheid, and they did fair. But we draw the liberals then. This is pure African,” he said. “We had a pure Chinese film, and it only did fair.”

Now for a couple of films aimed specifically at the kids:

The Ray D. Prueter Library in Port Hueneme will show “Runaway Ralph,” a film that combines live action and animation.

It stars Ralph the Mouse, whose precociousness tends to get him into some tight holes. Ralph gained notoriety first in several books by Beverly Cleary. Rounding out the double-feature is a short film titled “Unicycle.”

Show time is 7 p.m. Wednesday.