Category: Gender

The Principal’s Fight

Filmmaker:  Sidy Lamine Bagayoko Year of production: 2009 Location: Sabalibougou, Mali Duration: 31 minutes. Sound: mono Language: English Subtitles The Principal’s Fight examines the case of Community School, Sector II, Sabalibougou and the struggles of Negueting Traore and...

Housing the City

Filmmaker:  Vida Owusu–Boateng Year of production: 2014 Location: Ghana Duration: 28 Minutes. Sound: mono Language: English Subtitles The film follows the difficult process of finding accommodation in Accra, Ghana. Copyright: 2014  Visual Cultural Studies, University of...

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...

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...

Marriage is a Partnership

Filmmaker:  Habi Year of production: 2002 Location: North Cameroon Duration: 31 min. Sound: mono Language: English English Subtitles For many years, North Cameroon has been considered as the less educated region in the country. As...

Land is Food

Filmmaker:  Babette Koultchoumi Year of production: 2008 Location: Bipare, Cameroon Duration: 44 minutes Sound: mono Language: French English Subtitles “Land is Food” is a portrait of some farming people of Bipare village, situated in northern Cameroon near the...

Kilanta

Filmmaker: Rachidatou Ibrahim Year of production: 2014 Location: Cameroon Duration: 33 min. Sound: mono Language: Fulfulde English Subtitles Until recently Fulani girls living in northern Cameroon had less formal education than boys. Today Fulani girls are being...

Cyber Dreams

Cyber Dreams

Filmmaker:  Alphonse Ndem Ahola Year of production: 2005 Location: Cameroon Duration: 29 min. Sound: mono Language: French English Subtitles This film is an investigation into the meaning of Internet for a middleaged Cameroonian woman and some...