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- The movie is about the real life story of a girl named Ameena from Hyderabad, India, who is victim of human trafficking.
- A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.
- Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
- When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
- A group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. They encounter a castaway, pirates, and captain Nemo with his array of scientific gadgets to keep strangers off his island.
- Portrait of fortitude and care centred on a valiant seamstress single mother in Douala.
- A revelatory encounter between an Evangelist sent on a mission and a prostitute.
- Ngando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the tradition. Ndomé; is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé; should marry Ngando's uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.
- The production of the highly anticipated crime drama, ABAKWA, has wrapped up, with the film set to premiere later this year. Directed by Song Nestor and based on a true story, ABAKWA explores the devastating effects of an illegal drug made from human bones called "Kayouk." The story centers on a former crime lord who, haunted by his past, seeks redemption by repairing the community he once destroyed. After serving 35 years in prison, he teams up with a law enforcement officer to dismantle a criminal syndicate involved in human trafficking, rape, and the production and distribution of Kayouk. This mission offers him a chance to right the wrongs of his past. ABAKWA is more than just a movie; it is a visceral exploration of the devastating consequences of drug abuse and a poignant tribute to the resilient spirit of the people of Bamenda, popularly called Abakwa. The gripping narrative not only highlights the scourge of drug abuse but also underscores the universal dangers of illicit activities, making it a must-watch for education and awareness purposes across Africa and the world. "Our motivation behind writing this movie was to shine a light on the struggles and triumphs of the people of Abakwa and the negative effects of the Kayouk drug," said co-writers Roy Amabo and Song Nestor. "While the film is set in Cameroon, the dangers of drug abuse and illicit activities portrayed are universal."
- Ekah is determined to go to school in a village of fishermen where a girl child's education is considered a taboo. Her drive to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father, Solomon's past.
- After a war outbreak in her village due to Cameroon's Anglophone-Crisis, a desperate woman seeks refuge in the forest. A cellphone is her only lifeline, as relies on a stranger's kindness to determine her fate.
- After an unusual occurrence in a sacred forest, a group of college students return home to find that something is eliminating them, one after another.
- 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.
- A young soldier returns home to find his mother dying of cancer and is forced to make desperate choices with both the police and the underworld only to find himself embattled in a global conspiracy of coercion and murder.
- In Jean-Pierre Bekolo's barbed political satire, an infectious hybrid of horror and science fiction, vampiric femmes fatales emasculate high-ranking Cameroonian officials through ancient rituals of Mevoungou.
- Wanita (Weza Da Silva), is on a search for her identity. As it is often the case in Bekolo's work, the personal identity of the character is but the smallest manifestation of an identity struggle for an entire people, and the identity struggle of the film itself, of the process of filmmaking, which in this case is literally trying to form itself before our eyes. This is an "afrofuturistic/sci-fi" film, as the website describes it, taking place 150 years in the future when the human race is plagued by a terrible virus - "bad luck." The main character seemingly travels back and forth between the present and the future, and also carries on conversations with ancestors as well as with alternate selves, like Wanita Bis, who wants to be a television star. But the ultimate goal of the film is a philosophical and aesthetic exploration of the dividing line between fiction and reality, which is perhaps Bekolo's main artistic interest. Among the director's memorable lines on the topic, consider the following: "We shouldn't just be making movies, we should be changing reality." Naked Reality relies on a few visual tricks that support the material split between reality and fiction. The black and white creates a stylized atmosphere that, through sharp contrasts, aggressively suggests the future. It also brings to mind experimentation, but at a formal level, it points to a lack (through the implicit lack of color). And this is a film that is indeed missing various parts. The dualism at work here is reinforced in the director's choice of the superimposition. This is a transition effect used to link up two shots that overlap for a few seconds, but in this film the superimpositions last unusually long (by classical cinema conventions). A low-angle shot that travels under the trees returns several times to provide the characters with a kind of visual base on which to build another scene. Since the film lacks traditional sets, the visual splits and fills that void of materiality with itself, as it were. There are also several upside-down shots and a few edited through a negative filter - the reverse of the initial reality. Characters also speak to each other as they peek from behind a curtain, shot through a grainy filter. VLAD DIMA
- A political candidate becomes the focus of drama and rivalry between his wife and several mistresses.
- A returning vet attending college falls in love with a pretty co-ed and becomes obsessive over her.
- Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.
- A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rain forest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)
- Police inspector Baïko is investigating the murder of a young woman.
- Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.
- Alpha is a migrant artist who's been living for a long while in Calais Jungle, the notorious refugee and migrant encampment near Calais, France. He's turned his self-built cabin into an artwork. Filmmaker Hamedine Kane, who is also an artist, follows him in the months leading up to the camp being demolished. Alpha has named his cabin The Blue House, surrounded it with objects he found in the camp - such as a sculpture made of plastic chairs - and decorated a tree with old audio cassettes and water bottles. He strums on his guitar while he talks about the long journey he has made. Originally from West Africa, in 2005 Alpha was a fisherman in Istanbul. After that he worked in a hotel in Greece - illegally, which landed him in jail. Now he finds himself in this no man's land. He knows everyone who passes by, from sex workers to the village idiot. Alpha has attracted the attention of journalists and is now something of a local celebrity. But when he calls home, they no longer recognize his voice. His nomadic life may have come to a standstill here but, unfazed, he calmly carries on building and drawing.
- The unbelievable true story of Rudolf Manga Bell, an African king who leads a rebellion against Kaiser Wilhelm II's oppressive colonial rule at the start of World War 1.
- A clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.
- Captures the incredible rise of the first ever winner of RuPaul's Drag Race: the legendary BeBe Zahara Benet.
- Dr. Soye opens a psychiatric clinic in Yaoundé, but as her professional career rises, her personal woes are only beginning.
- BORN THIS WAY is a portrait of the underground gay and lesbian community in Cameroon. It follows Cedric and Gertrude, two young Cameroonians, as they move between a secret, supportive LGBT community and an outside culture that, though intensely homophobic, is in transition toward greater acceptance.
- Drama based on the everyday lives of several Cameroonian families, as men and women try to resolve their different points of view and find lasting love together.
- A young girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into one.
- Proud and determined, the hunter set out, leaving behind his village ravaged by a terrible drought. All the villagers came out to wish him well, and everyone gave what he could: an egg, a handful of peanuts or a few kola nuts... As in the folktale, Sobgui, a former computer programmer who now drives a "clando" cab in Douala, flees to Europe to escape a life in Cameroon which has become unbearable. In Cologne (Germany), Sobgui joins a community of African emigrants. Most are hard-working and ambitious people. Sobgui begins a love affair with Madeleine, a German political activist who encourages Sobgui and his friends to return home and fight for change.
- A motley crew of criminals collide with the law in the search for a priceless ruby.
- In 1904 a man named Ota Benga was removed from the Congo in Central Africa and placed in the New York City Bronx Zoo, in a cage with primates. He spent his nights at the Monkey house. He was on display as living proof of Darwin's theory of evolution.
- This film is the portrait of Delphine, a young Cameroonian girl. Like others, she belongs to the generation of young African women crushed by our patriarchal societies and abandoned to Western sexual colonization as her only means of survival. Through her courage and strength, she exposes these patterns of domination that continue to lock up African women.
- 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.