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White Material

White Material

Claire Denis 2009 1h 46m 9.3

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own.

Chocolat

Chocolat

Claire Denis 1988 1h 44m 8.0

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.

Muna Moto

Muna Moto

Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa 1975 1h 30m

Ngando and Ndomé share an extremely perfect love. Yet, tradition demands a dowry for Ndomé’s hand that Ngando, an orphan, cannot afford. Forced to ask his uncle for assistance, Ngando finds himself at the mercy of his uncle’s lust and greed. How can Ngando and Ndomé find peace together?

Cameroon Connection

Cameroon Connection

Alphonse Beni 1985 1h 28m

Police inspector Baïko is investigating the murder of a young woman.

Moolaadé

Moolaadé

Ousmane Sembène 2004 2h 4m

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Afrique, je te plumerai

Afrique, je te plumerai

Jean-Marie Téno 1993 1h 28m

This documentary of repressive political realities in Cameroon begins with the 1990 publication of an open letter to President Biya calling for a national conference - and the immediate arrest of the letter's author and publisher.

Le grand blanc de Lambaréné

Le grand blanc de Lambaréné

Bassek Ba Kobhio 1995 1h 34m

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent.

Quartier Mozart

Quartier Mozart

Jean-Pierre Bekolo 1992 1h 20m

The boisterous and cheerful lives of the residents of Cameroon are barely dented by incursions of supernatural power in this humor-filled rendition of traditional folk tales in modern guise. In the story, a cheerfully naughty girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into a young man.

Sango Malo

Sango Malo

Bassek Ba Kobhio 1990 1h 33m

In Cameroon, new schoolteacher Bernard Malo Malo is about to shake up the small village of Lebamzip. Sensitive to libertarian ideas, he doesn't hesitate to discuss politics and sexuality with his pupils. And when he suggests that the farmers form a cooperative, confrontation with the notables becomes inevitable...

Sisters in Law

Sisters in Law

Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi 2005 1h 44m

Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.