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Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French, or both. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camarões (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884 known as Kamerun. After World War I, it was divided between France and the United Kingdom as League of Nations mandates. The Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC... ()
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Chocolat(1988)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 35 votes)

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.

Directed by Claire Denis - With François Cluzet, Giulia Boschi, Didier Flamand, Emmanuelle Chaulet, Isaach de Bankolé, Jacques Denis, ...

White Material(2010)

1h 42min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 66 votes)

On the brink of civil war breaking out in an African country, a French woman struggles to save her floundering coffee plantation.

Directed by Claire Denis - With Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Adèle Ado, Isaach de Bankolé, Michel Subor, ...

The Fisherman's Diary(2020)

2h 22min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

A 12-year old girl - Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father's - Solomon (Kang Quintus) past experience with girl child education.

Directed by Enah Johnscott - With Kang Quintus, Faith Fidel, Ramsey Nouah, Daphne, Onyama Laura, Nimo Loveline, ...

The Mysterious Island(1973)

1h 36min | Science Fiction, Adventure
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.

Directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, Henri Colpi - With Omar Sharif, Gerard Tichy, Philippe Nicaud, Jess Hahn, Gabriele Tinti, Mariano Vidal Molina, ...

Mambar Pierrette(2024)

1h 33min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The city of Douala is in trepidation for the start of the new school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighbourhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for imminent social events and ceremonies. More than just a sewer, Pierrette becomes the confidant of her customers, of a generation. But when the rain starts pouring down and threaten to flood her workshop – one of several successive misfortunes – Pierrette will have to stay afloat.

Nganù(2023)

1h 41min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

The Red, White and Blue of My Hair(2015)

22min
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Seyna, a young Cameroonian woman fascinated by French history, dreams of gaining citizenship of the country she so loves as soon as she reaches 18. Will it be just a formality, or a much tougher path?

Directed by Josza Anjembé

Sleeping Sickness(2011)

1h 31min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.

Directed by Ulrich Köhler - With Pierre Bokma, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily

The Bloodettes(2005)

1h 37min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Best friends Majolie and Chouchou are two beautiful young women trying to get ahead in a near-future Cameroon. After accidentally killing a powerful politician during sex, the two come up with a plot to dispose of the body, and get into the glamorous wakes that have taken over the local nightlife.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Bekolo - With Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, Emile Abossolo M'Bo, Joséphine Ndagnou

Boubou cravate(1972)

29min | Drama

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that perhaps he has assimilated too much white culture.

Delphine’s Prayers(2021)

1h 30min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This film is the portrait of Delphine, a young Cameroonian girl who, after the death of her mother and the abandonment of her father’s parental responsibilities, was raped at the age of 13. She sinks into prostitution to support herself and her daughter. She ends up marrying a Belgian man who is three times her age, hoping to find a better life in Europe for her and her daughter. Seven years later, the European dream has faded and her situation has only gotten worse.Delphine, like others, is part of this generation of young African women crushed by our patriarchal societies and left with this Western sexual colonization as the only means of survival. Through her courage and strength, Delphine exposes these patterns of domination that continue to lock up African women.

Africa, I Will Fleece You(1992)

1h 28min | History, Documentary
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

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Clando(1996)

1h 38min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Proud and determined, the hunter set out, leaving behind his village ravaged by a terrible drought. All the villagers came out to wish him well, and everyone gave what he could: an egg, a handful of peanuts or a few kola nuts... As in the folktale, Sobgui, a former computer programmer who now drives a "clando" cab in Douala, flees to Europe to escape a life in Cameroon which has become unbearable. In Cologne (Germany), Sobgui joins a community of African emigrants. Most are hard-working and ambitious people. Sobgui begins a love affair with Madeleine, a German political activist who encourages Sobgui and his friends to return home and fight for change.

Directed by Jean-Marie Teno

Circle of Powers(1998)

1h 55min | Drama

Jisset is a brilliant and popular journalist. He works for the “Perroquet”, an independent weekly, and is conducting an investigation on the suspicious activities of one of the most important businessmen in the country, Moni-Sam.

Therapy(2021)

1h 24min | Drama

A young dysfunctional couple tries to patch up their relationship through sessions with a highly unconventional therapist.

The Child of Another(1975)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

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? Their journey will be challenging and everyone will learn that not everything special can be saved.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa

The Price of Liberty(1978)

1h 30min | Thriller
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

After refusing the sexual advances of her village chief and her father's authority, a young woman runs away from home and goes to town. There she meets several members of her family and tries to start her life from scratch. She enrolls at a high school and makes new friends. However, she realizes that social relations in town also depend on sexual favors and that around her everyone has given in to that practice. When she loses the only man she loved, the girl returns to her village and in a fit of rage sets it on fire.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa

Ivory. A Crime Story(2016)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled throughout 30 countries to make a route of ivory smuggling and to find out the true culprit of these crimes against elephants.

Directed by Sergey Yastrzhembsky

Invisible Woman(2010)

6min

A young black woman searches for the face of her community in film posters. Her obsessive search leads her to the brink of madness.

Directed by Pascale Obolo

The Great White of Lambarene(1995)

1h 34min | Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

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. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.

Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio

A Man for The Weekend(2017)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Comedy
1.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A career-focused woman convinces a colleague to pose as her boyfriend for a family visit -- and must face a meddling mom and some unexpected feelings.

Directed by Achile Brice - With Syndy Emade, Alex Ekubo

Silent Forests(2019)

1h 49min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

This documentary takes audiences into the heart of Africa's Congo Basin to meet the men and women trying to save the forest elephant from extinction.

Yefon(2015)

Drama, History, Romance / Love
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

Cameroon Connection(1985)

1h 28min | Action

- No description / details available yet. -

I Am a Girl(2013)

1h 28min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.

Directed by Rebecca Barry

Naked Reality(2016)

1h 2min

An experimental Afrofuturistic fable centered around Wanita, a mysterious young woman who embarks on a journey of discovery that might just save humanity. One hundred and fifty years in the future, Africa has become a single, sprawling metropolis controlled by a race of immortal beings, and full of regular mortals dying from a disease called Bad Luck. As Wanita leaves home one morning, a prayer to her ancestors unwittingly starts her on a path to the Dimsi — another dimension, invisible to the eye, but discoverable by the soul. Can Wanita follow her DNA to break free from the shackles of the immortals? A purposely unfinished work, NAKED REALITY boldly leaves the audience with a blank canvas to interpret and create, as Bekolo grants viewers access to limitless answers waiting to be unearthed.

The President(2013)

1h 4min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo's newest work uses split-screens (at times, up to four images simultaneously) to present a fake documentary in which "the president" has disappeared; talk-show hosts, rivals, politicians and even rappers chime in on what may have occurred, and what their president for life has—or has not—done for Cameroon.

Prism(2021)

1h 18min | Documentary

For Prism, Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels-based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris-based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to work together on a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the biased limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin. Such white-centricity means that the photographic media assume, privilege and construct whiteness.

Pousse-pousse(1976)

1h 40min

Pousse-Pousse's dreams of purchasing a motorcart are frustrated by his obligation of paying his fiancée's dowry to her parents.

Directed by Daniel Kamwa

Calypso Rose: The Lioness of the Jungle(2011)

1h 25min | Documentary, Music

- No description / details available yet. -

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