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Rosine Mbakam

Les deux visages d'une femme Bamiléké

The Two Faces of a Bamiléké

76 minutes - 2016 - VO +SRT FR +SRT EN
Published 26 August 2022 - Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bxl
Streaming on demand : https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bamileke

Ce film raconte le retour d’une jeune femme dans son pays d’origine, le Cameroun, ses retrouvailles avec sa mère, retrouvailles construites autour des espaces revisités de leurs deux vécus. Deux parcours différents qui se croisent autour des traditions qui fondent leurs deux personnalités. A la recherche des sentiments enfouis, des histoires, son histoire. Donner vie aux voix endormies dans le silence, éclairer les visages des femmes de sa communauté qui l’ont construites pour faire jaillir d’autres couleur de leur visage.
Belgique
Production : Tândor productions
Co-production : CBA, GSARA

My name is Rosine Mbakam, from Cameroon where I grew up and lived until 27 years old according to tradition. In 2007, I left to continue my studies in Belgium. It was the first time leaving my country. My mother’s name is Mâ Brêh in Bamiléké, she has always lived in Cameroon. She grew up in the maquis where her family, as many others, fled French colonial repression. She was married at 18 years old to a man introduced to her by her parents. The film is a face-to-face that examines and and poses questions regarding the choices of two women. Two generations face-to-face, two women who share their intimate selves, their pain, their desires.

The film recounts the return of a young woman to her native country, Cameroon. A reunion with her mother, a reunion constructed around the revisited spaces of their two lives. Two different journeys that intersect around traditions that are underpin their two personalities. In search of buried sentiments, histories, her history. Giving life to latent voices in the silence, illuminating the faces of women in her community that formed her, in which the other colors of their faces emerge.