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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.

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 bright and brave teenager returns to her hometown for a brief holiday but finds herself trapped instead, with no way to get back home.

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 biopic based on the life of Dieudonné Afana, A.K.A Jean Miché Kankan, one of the greatest African comedians of all time.

A tale of betrayal and bravery in the face of "Red-Skinned" invaders.

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.

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.

Sango Malo contrasts two views of education. The traditional headmaster represents a rigid, "Eurocentric." curriculum designed to produce docile colonial administrators. Malo, the radical young teacher, emphasizes the practical skills needed to build a self-reliant rural community. The film illustrates Brazilian educator Paolo Freire's celebrated distinction between an education which the ruling class uses to inculcate its values in students' minds and one which empowers students to shape their own destiny.

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.

A revelatory encounter between an Evangelist sent on a mission and a prostitute.

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.

A political candidate becomes the focus of drama and rivalry between his wife and several mistresses.

A clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.

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 successful lawyer finds herself entangled in a dangerous scheme and must decide whether to obey her principles or her passions.

Flora is found drugged and raped after a party organized by her boyfriend Cédric. To avoid a scandal, Cédric's family offer a large sum of money to Flora's parents for an agreement of confidentiality.

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.