Category: Cameroon

The Work of Pleasure

Filmmaker:  Rachel Bale Guengue Year of production: 2008 Location: Cameroon Duration: 34 minutes Sound: mono Language: French English Subtitles The work of pleasure, a Sourga work party in Mayo-Baleo, Cameroon is a film about the Sourga, a...

The Sultan’s Burden

Filmmaker:  Lisbet Holtedahl & Jon Jerstad Year of production: 1992 Location: Cameroon Duration: 49 minutes. Sound: mono Language: Fulfulde, French, English English and French Subtitles Sultan ISSA MAIGARI of the Adamaoua Province, Northern Cameroon, is the traditional...

The Master said that…

Filmmaker:  Trond Waage Year of production: 2000 (remastered 2002) Location: Cameroon Duration: 49 minutes Sound: mono Language: French English Subtitles This film is about Chehou, the schoolmaster in a small village in northern Cameroon. Both the Muslim...

The Baka

Filmmaker: Nyelade Richard Atimniraye Year of production: 2015 Location: Cameroon Duration: 30 minutes. Sound: mono Language: French English Subtitles In the face of deforestation and social exclusion, the Baka are managing to protect their identity and their natural resource. While...

Struggle for a living

Filmmaker:  Trond Waage Year of production: 2002 Location: Cameroon Duration: 22 minutes Sound: mono Language: French English Subtitles This is a photo-documentary made through close collaboration between the anthropologist and the protagonist. The main idea behind...

Returning to the Past

Filmmaker:  Ndanga Dieudonne Year of production: 2007 Location: Cameroon Duration: 31 minutes. Sound: mono Language: French English Subtitles This film is about the struggle people are conducting to keep the pace in a context where things are changing...

Noise That Brings Money

Filmmaker: Konrad Pilot Year of production: 2013 Location: Cameroon Duration: 52 min. Sound: mono Language: French, Fulfulde English Subtitles At the iron market in Maroua, in the Far North region of Cameroon the local blacksmiths turn scrap...

New Way of Life

Filmmaker: Flavie Chiwo Tembou Year of production: 2014 Location: Bahouan, Cameroon Duration: 35 min. Sound: mono Language: Fulani, Bahouan, Bamendjou, French, Pidgin-English English Subtitles This film is an exploratory study which tries to understand and elaborate on...