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- Portrait of fortitude and care centred on a valiant seamstress single mother in Douala.
- 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.
- A revelatory encounter between an Evangelist sent on a mission and a prostitute.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- A brutal burglary gone wrong puts two small time crooks friendship to the test. Violence and suspicion reaches it's peak when an old high school friend, Melanie, forces them to confront their past.
- Dr. Soye opens a psychiatric clinic in Yaoundé, but as her professional career rises, her personal woes are only beginning.
- 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.
- Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.
- A clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.
- A young girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into one.
- 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 political candidate becomes the focus of drama and rivalry between his wife and several mistresses.
- 16-year-old Vivian moves to live with her grandmother Ma Granni in the city of Bamenda. On her arrival, she is infatuated by BEN, an Okada boy (commercial bike rider). Ben so Lovely and willing to be financially Supportive takes Vivian on a ride to a seemingly romantic but dangerous adventure.
- A successful lawyer finds herself entangled in a dangerous scheme and must decide whether to obey her principles or her passions.
- 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.
- A motley crew of criminals collide with the law in the search for a priceless ruby.
- After her mother pressures her to find a man, a young career woman persuades a work colleague to pose as her boyfriend for a family event.
- A little distressed girl seeks to end the circle of abuse that claimed her mother's life. SYNOPSIS In an anglophone crisis setting, a Little distressed girl, witnesses the constant abuse of her mother, by her frustrated Military father SAMB which leads to her untimely death. Left alone with her father, depressed and in grief, this takes a toll on her studies. Instructed to take counseling sessions with the school counselor who she later discovers is about to fall into the same trap as her mother.
- 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.
- Minga is an orphaned girl living with her stepmother Mami Kaba and her stepsister Abena. One day, when she was washing dishes in the river, she accidentally broke a spoon. A furious Mami Kaba then chased her away from the house, asking her to find the only identical spoon hidden by her late mother. A adventurous journey then begins for Minga in the forest.
- The forgotten story of the armed wing of Mandela's party as told by its former members, shedding light on a decisive chapter in the struggle against apartheid.
- In the heart of the equatorial forest in Africa, a king is poisoned by one of his subjects. On the orders of the oldest of the notables, an old seer is called for rescue. He suggests to two close aids of the palace to go to the sacred cave in under seven days, to look for an antidote capable of curing. A fight of interest leads to chaos in the kingdom of Mabunos disrupts all expectations.
- A man employs a young carer to look after his father, who is suffering from Alzheimers disease, but the carer herself has a serious kidney condition.
- In a west African Plantation in the 60s, A young determined girl must battle family and society to preserve her late father's legacy; A colonial plantation; amid Disagreements , betrayal and secrets. A dramatic musical , An allegory of Neo colonization.
- After celebrating Sasha's birthday with bottles of beers and whiskies, her three friends, Johnn, Tom, and Sam decide to take her to a nearby town for more celebrations but on their way, their car hits and kills a passerby on a lonesome road. They decide to hide the crime as Johnny, the governor's son argues that it will negatively influence his father's political career. However, on their way to bury the corpse, their car is stopped by a police officer and as the officer discovers the corpse, he is shot dead by Johnny but unfortunately during the clash, the officers shoots at Sam. To cover up this new crime three other people will die.
- In The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the African continent. The film looks at Christian evangelism as the forerunner of European colonialism in Africa, indeed, as the ideological model for the relationship between North and South even today. In particular it looks at the role of missionaries in Namibia on the centenary of the 1904 German genocide of the Herrero people there. It reveals how colonialism destroyed African beliefs and social systems and replaced them with European ones as if they were the only acceptable routes to modernity. As Prof. F. Kangué Ewané says in the film: "I can forgive Westerners for taking away my land ...but not for taking away my mind and soul." Through an examination of the work of German missionary societies in Africa whose vocation was to bring Christianity - and by extension, European culture and European rule - to the heathens, Jean Marie Teno reveals The Colonial Misunderstanding.
- A returning vet attending college falls in love with a pretty co-ed and becomes obsessive over her.
- A young Cameroonian woman makes up her mind to marry a rich white man.