Category: Africa

Four Wives and a Marabout

Filmmaker:  Lisbet Holtedahl Year of production: 1989 Location: Cameroon Duration: 53 minutes. Sound: mono Language: Fulfulde Subtitles: English, French The film is about Al Hajji Malam Schaaway – Quran teacher and court member at the Sultanate...

Survive Everyday

Filmmaker: Wadazoua Abdoul Aziz Year of production: 2020 Location: Far North Region, Cameroon Duration:  39 minutes Sound: mono Language: Mousgoum French: Subtitles Due to ecological disturbances, the scarcity of natural resources, especially fish, is increasingly disrupting the rhythm of...

Commemorative meal (Repas d’oubli)

Filmmaker: Tchoupno Ndjidda Year of production: 2019 Location: Mayo-Kani, Far North Cameroon Duration:  29 minutes Sound: mono Language: Moundang English Subtitles The Oblivion Meal is an ethnographic film that attempts to relate the cultural eating practices of Negro-African peoples. It...

Djebba’s Cabaret

Filmmaker: Ghislaine Magouo Tainon Year of production: 2020 Location: Ngaoundéré, Cameroon Duration:  30 minutes Sound: mono Language: French, Fulfulde, Moundang Subtitles: English  Djebba’s cabaret is the portrait of a young brewer of bilbil (Traditional millet beer). Djebba is...

Awoudou ways of seeing

Filmmaker: Amandine Tezore Year of production: 2020 Location: Far North Region, Cameroon Duration:  37 minutes Sound: mono Language: Fulfulde, Moundang, French Subtitles: English Boko Haram forced several people to flee their natal village as the assailants decimated several communities along...

Traditional Artefacts In a Catholic Church

Filmmaker: Barama Yahagara Year of production: 2020 Location: Cameroon Duration:  22 minutes Sound: mono Language: Zoulogo, Mada, French Subtitles: English and French The Catholic Church of Tokombéré, in northern Cameroon, is special. They use traditional animist objects in the church....