Discoveries from Cameroon World Cinema

Bob, a 32-year-old professional boxer, lives with 30-year-old Marie and their 10-year-old son Adam. They live a peaceful life until Marie is arrested during a drug deal.

Mr Jackson who is a successful and devoted businessman dedicated all his time to his business and forgot to raise his children. He even gives a deaf ear to his wife Mrs Jackson. But as life has it, time quickly brought to the face of the Jackson's family what Mr Jackson implanted in his first son Ngwa.

Fruh a farmer in his mid 30s lost his wife to the Covid 19 pandemic. He decides to isolate himself from any human contact until Bih a teacher who was travelling his path and finds his bush house. Fruh is furious and fears Bih might infect him. As he urges Bih to leave immediately he suddenly faints and is helped by the person whom he thought he didn't need.

Because of a dispute between armed fighters and the state military that almost took everyone’s life, the few that managed to escape found themselves in the forest and luckily got safe heaven at mama's place.

In 72 hours is a thought-provoking movie on the realities of young people affected by war, violence, murder and rape in inhabitable conditions hoping for peace.

Mumbari's family lost everything as a result of their constant brutality and unreasonable violence.

Between age three and four, Vera Loumpet-Galitzine traverses many landscapes, exploring where she comes from, to come into her own. We follow her to her school and neighbourhood activities in France, Cameroon and Russia. As Vera dances, sings and runs around these visually engaging landscapes, seemingly easily integrated into her rich fantasy world, we attempt to imagine what they look like to her. What does she see, think, or imagine?

A feature-length travelogue from Cameroon.

Two young students are in love. Gay love is forbidden in Cameroon.

Cameroonian horror film.

Djebba’s cabaret is the portrait of a young brewer of bilbil (Traditional millet beer). Djebba is a young woman who has trained as a teacher but has been unable to find work for 05 years. To survive in a big city like Ngaoundéré (Cameroon), she brews and sells millet beer so that she can support herself. Despite the low profit of the brewing profession, she has won the loyalty of a large number of customers with whom she shares very familiar relationships. Djebba’s business allows her to live on a daily basis but she still hopes that one day she will finally be able to work as a teacher.

Brilliantly fusing the visual language and kineticism of anime with African themes, traditions, and histories, Jules Kalla Eyango delivers the thrilling tale of a grief-stricken warrior’s most momentous battle.

The elderly Isabel Cardoso works in the kitchen of a nursery school. Her hands are worn, her memory sharp and heavy with grief. In moments of stillness she reaches across the divide, communicating with her deceased mother through the stirring winds, the rippling surface of water, the cracked earth. A richly intimate documentary mosaic of the strength, struggle and transcendence of black womanhood.

The film is about Al Hajji Malam Schaaway – Quran teacher and court member at the Sultanate of Adamaoua – and his four wives. The camera follows everyday life inside a polygamous household and, also, Al Hajji in his daily work as a religious teacher.

Fetba, a small village situated in the West province of Cameroon is undergoing rapid transformation since more than 10 years now. In this locality the Cameroon government has provided population with electricity, potable water and a health center.

To the Evuzok, a tribe in the South of Cameroon, there are two kinds of diseases that are cured different ways: the “natural” ones and the ones from the night world, caused by sorcery. Dance to the Spirits is the story of Mba Owona Pierre, the village chief and ngengan (healer). He deals with the sicknesses that come from the night world where spirits live and attack his people. Pierre has a special gift and a responsibility towards his fellow villagers. The dance to the spirits is his main healing ritual.

Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing on the relationships in a polygamous family. Living far away from urban centres, people like Alhaji and his family struggle to adapt to the arrival of modern education, their increasing marginalization, worsening poverty, and, in recent years, the constant threat of the Boko Haram insurgency. Shot over several years, Wives provides rare, intimate glimpses into the dynamics of a West-African polygamous Muslim family, and the challenges faced by an older generation whose norms and values are losing legitimacy in a rapidly changing environment.