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A 12-year old girl - Ekah is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father's - Solomon past experience with girl child education.
Villagers advise an abusive husband to channel his rage in the army. There, he must come to terms with violent urges that have deep and painful roots.
Best friends Majolie and Chouchou are two beautiful young women trying to get ahead in a near-future Cameroon. After accidentally killing a powerful politician during sex, the two come up with a plot to dispose of the body, and get into the glamorous wakes that have taken over the local nightlife.
Kizito, a self righteous, legalist preacher is mandated to take a one month soul winning trip to Mboko, a dreaded and godless ghetto, to validate his eligibility for ordination. He is rescued and aided by an infamous prostitute, Bisona who houses him for as long as he carries his assignment. This unlawful combination breeds a rare type of chemistry that eventually sparks to love. He later discovers Mboko means much more to him than just an assignment destination.
On the border between Morocco and Spain, a group of travelers is eagerly waiting to cross over to Europe.
A young woman decides to organize an intercontinental festival of African songs in Cameroon.
The story of a young man who needs an uncooperative public servant's signature to enter college, Mister Foot is a light-hearted look at Cameroon's national obsession: soccer. During a period of social unrest in 1990, an informal truce was called so that fans on both sides could follow their national team, the Indomitable Lions, in the World Cup tournament.
George's dreams of becoming a medical doctor is threaten by his mates with constant intimidation and mockery of his looks, being left out of every activity and fed up he takes a stand against his bullies.
This film is the portrait of Delphine, a young Cameroonian girl who, after the death of her mother and the abandonment of her father’s parental responsibilities, was raped at the age of 13. She sinks into prostitution to support herself and her daughter. She ends up marrying a Belgian man who is three times her age, hoping to find a better life in Europe for her and her daughter. Seven years later, the European dream has faded and her situation has only gotten worse.Delphine, like others, is part of this generation of young African women crushed by our patriarchal societies and left with this Western sexual colonization as the only means of survival. Through her courage and strength, Delphine exposes these patterns of domination that continue to lock up African women.
The rivetingly intimate Jail Time Records profiles the first prison recording studio on the African continent and three incarcerated artists who express themselves through music.
After a 20-year long fruitless search in the Cameroonian forest, Frenchman Michel Ballot is on the verge of giving up his lifelong quest to find the mysterious creature known as the Mokélé-Mbembé. Turning to local initiates for help, and torn between ancestral wisdom and scientific evidence, he embarks on a final journey into powers, knowledge and the unseen.
Mathilda is Marilyn, mother of Adam during the day and prostitute at night. She is ready for any sacrifice to raise her child...
The city of Douala is in trepidation for the start of the new school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighbourhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for imminent social events and ceremonies. More than just a sewer, Pierrette becomes the confidant of her customers, of a generation. But when the rain starts pouring down and threaten to flood her workshop – one of several successive misfortunes – Pierrette will have to stay afloat.
Based on the real life story of a teenage girl named Ameena from old city Hyderabad, who was sold to an affluent Arab in Dubai by her parents.
A Canadian Jew wanders through an African culture where "the dead are not dead." Embarking on a road trip across Cameroon's most joyous funeral celebrations, the foreigner befriends his guides and becomes increasingly haunted by memories of his own ancestors.
This is the story of a man named Abakwa. He used to be a ferocious mafia boss who was apprehended for his crimes and sentenced to life. After spending 35 years behind bars, with the help of Ambe Benard, an outstanding Police Inspector, he gets released. They make a deal to work together and fight against drugs, prostitution, and all illicit activities that plaque their community.
Ngando and Ndomé share an extremely perfect love. Yet, tradition demands a dowry for Ndomé’s hand that Ngando, an orphan, cannot afford. Forced to ask his uncle for assistance, Ngando finds himself at the mercy of his uncle’s lust and greed. How can Ngando and Ndomé find peace together? Their journey will be challenging and everyone will learn that not everything special can be saved.
Kuva tells the story of Ekema, a “no good” fisherman, down on his luck. In a fishing society where a man’s worth is a derivative of his fishing prowess, Ekema finds himself the lowest rung in the society’s ladder. He finds himself, through no want of efforts, unable to measure or match up to his mates which leads to constant ridicule from the society in general, but a certain Njie, the “King Fisher” in particular. His only source of solace is from his two friends, Eposi and Lyonga. He hates his fate and wishes he had more financially which will translate to more respect.
Childhood friends meet for the first time in several years and engage in a 'game' that will unexpectedly bring up former demons.
A young man after studying in the city decides to return to his village to educate his people about the dangers of their activities and practices on the environment. Unfortunately his knowledge becomes a threat to some corrupt elders who benefit from these activities and they vow to get him out of their way.
Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, 'Je ne suis pas moi-même' examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal objects. Where do the African masks come from? What journey do these masks make before their unveiling in the windows of the biggest galleries or art collections in Europe? Who determines the economic and aesthetic value of these objects now that colonialism is supposedly dead? And then there’s a continent called Africa, in need of economic resources and therefore willing to sell its cultural heritage or, if need be, to fake it. The authenticity of the objects becomes blurred when the people that once adored them start to sell them.
Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies.
In a west African Plantation in the 60s, A young determined girl must battle family and external forces to preserve her late father's legacy . A colonial plantation willed to him by his white master at independence. Disagreements , betrayal and secrets bring back the colonial master's daughter to the helm of the Plantation. An allegory of Neo colonization.
A young inquisitive British trained scout who is displaced to a primal village challenges the era of tradition in the 1980s which gravely endangers his life.
A film by Doba Kadana Aiméé-Diane.
Filmed in 8mm, during the Ramadan of 1984 in Ngaoundéré, Northern Cameroon, the film relates the everyday life of a Fulani woman, Zeinabou. Scenes filmed in a joyful and relaxed atmosphere present domestic activities and interaction between the main protagonist and her husband, children and neighbors as they await the Ramadan feast.
In Cameroon, new schoolteacher Bernard Malo Malo is about to shake up the small village of Lebamzip. Sensitive to libertarian ideas, he doesn't hesitate to discuss politics and sexuality with his pupils. And when he suggests that the farmers form a cooperative, confrontation with the notables becomes inevitable...
Come explore the streets of Douala, one of the busiest ports in West Africa.
After refusing the sexual advances of her village chief and her father's authority, a young woman runs away from home and goes to town. There she meets several members of her family and tries to start her life from scratch. She enrolls at a high school and makes new friends. However, she realizes that social relations in town also depend on sexual favors and that around her everyone has given in to that practice. When she loses the only man she loved, the girl returns to her village and in a fit of rage sets it on fire.
Since 2014, the terrorist organisation Boko Haram have led strikes against the villages and people of the Far North Region of Cameroon. Today, this constant threat of violence has woven itself into daily existence.
In the Douala neighborhood of Bonanjo, Baba and his friends rollerblade in the shadow of a wall built by a French billionaire to block the sea. Amidst the specters of anticolonial resistance, they practice the serpent for hours.
The movie exposes the life of a young lady " Eposi " who learns she will die if she does not receive a transfusion of rare blood from a donor.
Lisoso Mathias has received news that his illness is terminal and that he needs to put his house in order within six months before his demise. But Njoh aka Kabongo, his elder brother is eagerly waiting for that day as he stands to inherit all of Lisoso’s property (which includes his wife Veronica and children, Sonia and Loise) as demanded by tradition if the dead man has no male child. But Sonia is declared the heir on the day of the will reading by the barrister appointed by Lisoso. Kabongo enlists his idle son and his cohorts to track down the Barrister and reclaim the will. He sets out to eliminate any witness to the will. Without a will not witnesses, will tradition prevail over the Dead Man’s Wish?
At the heart of Africa, a king is poisoned by one of his subjects. An old seer is called to the rescue. Contrary to their expectations, he suggests that two of the palace’s close aids go to the sacred cave to look for an antidote to cure the King of Mabunos.
Before seven years old Oneke’s mother dies, she hands Oneke to Bessem, her city-based sister. Twelve years later, Bessem dies and Oneke, now a nursing student returns to her village to ask her father for school fees. On arrival she hears a girl screaming as her breasts are being “ironed” to prevent them from developing too fast, and remembers the pain she herself suffered when it was done to her.
An anonymous grave between those of her parents, a dilapidated cinema hall within the Ministry of Arts and Culture—these are the remaining signs of Sita Bella’s presence on earth. Yet, she was the first female journalist, the first airline pilot in Cameroon, and one of Africa’s pioneering filmmakers. This film pays tribute to this exceptional woman.
Liengu, an adorable and brilliant albino of twelve, arrives in Bonalyonga (a village nestled in the side of Mount Cameroon) with her mother and father to spend holidays.
Who would have ever thought that the frantic pursuit of influence would only be a good illusion for this group of young women?
