The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman

This movie is about a young cameroonian woman who goes back home after leaving a while in Europe. The story is about her reunion with her mother. Their reunion are build around places where the young girl lives when she was young. Two different routes that intersect around the traditions underpinning their two personalities. At the research of hiding feelings, she find stories that seems to be her story. She wants to give life to voices hidden in the silence, she want to put light on faces of women of her community, those women who have build the woman that she became, she want to spout color on their faces.

Keywords

  • Cine-Short: 90 Minuten Kino
  • Female Filmmakers
  • Aktuell erschienen

Director

  • Rosine Mbakam

Dokus


1h 26min


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FR

Belgium
2016
This movie is about a young cameroonian woman who goes back home after leaving a while in Europe. The story is about her reunion with her mother. Their reunion are build around places where the young girl lives when she was young. Two different routes that intersect around the traditions underpinning their two personalities. At the research of hiding feelings, she find stories that seems to be her story. She wants to give life to voices hidden in the silence, she want to put light on faces of women of her community, those women who have build the woman that she became, she want to spout color on their faces.

This movie is about a young cameroonian woman who goes back home after leaving a while in Europe. The story is about her reunion with her mother. Their reunion are build around places where the young girl lives when she was young. Two different routes that intersect around the traditions underpinning their two personalities. At the research of hiding feelings, she find stories that seems to be her story. She wants to give life to voices hidden in the silence, she want to put light on faces of women of her community, those women who have build the woman that she became, she want to spout color on their faces.


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