Rosine Mbakam
Rosine Montgo Mbakam was born in Cameroon in 1980. After receiving training in audiovisual production, she worked for four years at the private TV channel STV in Douala. In 2007, she left Cameroon to study filmmaking at INSAS in Brussels. With her diploma in hand, she released her first fiction short film, Tu seras mon allié, in 2012 and co-directed a portrait of the Congolese artist Freddy Tsimba titled Mavambu with Mirko Popovitch. In 2014, she co-founded Tândor Productions with Geoffroy Cernaix and directed her first creative documentary, Les deux visages d’une femme bamiléké, in 2016, which was selected for around sixty festivals. Her 2018 film Chez Jolie Coiffure won several awards, and her 2021 film Les prières de Delphine premiered at Cinéma du réel.
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The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
Duration: 2h32This film tells the story of a young woman's return to her homeland, Cameroon, and the reunion with her mother, centered around revisiting spaces that have shaped both their lives. Their different journeys intersect around the traditions that form their identities. The film is a face-to-face encounter that confronts and questions the choices of these two women. It portrays two generations obser...
The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
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Duration: 2h32This film tells the story of a young woman's return to her homeland, Cameroon, and the reunion with her mother, centered around revisiting spaces that have shaped both their lives. Their different journeys intersect around the traditions that form their identities. The film is a face-to-face encounter that confronts and questions the choices of these two women. It portrays two generations obser...
