When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart. Read More »
Tag Archives: Cameroon
The Child of Another / Muna Moto (1975) Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa, Philippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa
Ngando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé Read More »
The President / Le président (2013) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Gérard Essomba, Valery Ndongo
A president for 42 years in power discretely left the palace on the eve of an important electoral meeting. Read More »
Chocolat (1988) Claire Denis, Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet
A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon Read More »
Quartier Mozart (1992) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Pauline Andela, Jimmy Biyona, Essindi Mindja
A young girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into one. Read More »
The Mysterious Island AKA La isla misteriosa (1973) Juan Antonio Bardem, Henri Colpi, Omar Sharif, Ambroise Bia, Jess Hahn
A group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »
The Bloodiest (2005) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, Emile Abossolo M’bo
A futuristic film set in a dystopian Cameroonian city vaguely reminiscent of the dystopian Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s classic BladeRunner Read More »
Le prix de la liberté / The Price of Freedom (1978) Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa, Marie-Thérèse Badje, Bibi Kouo, Marthe Momha, Thriller
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.
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