Prisms And Portraits: The Films Of Rosine Mbakam

Prisms And Portraits: The Films Of Rosine Mbakam

Prisms And Portraits: The Films Of Rosine Mbakam is a collectable DVD set that contains four of her critically acclaimed, award-winning features as well as two previously unavailable shorts films. Rosine Mbakam’s powerful and empathetic documentary films focus on the migrant experiences of women and the legacies of colonialism. Cameroonian-born and Belgium-based, she constructs films with a patient rigor devoted to giving the women she features space to tell their own stories.

1. The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman

2. Chez Jolie Coiffure

3. Delphine's Prayers

4. Prism

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Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam grew up in a traditional family in Cameroon. She chose cinema very early, training in Yaoundé thanks to the Italian NGO organization COE (Centro Orientamento Educativo) where, beginning in 2000 she was introduced to image making, editing and production. While there, she collaborated on and directed several films. After a meeting with Mactar Sylla in 2003, she joined the team of STV (Spectrum Television) where she directed and edited several audiovisual programmes. In 2007 she left Cameroon and enrolled at INSAS in Brussels for a training course.

With her diploma in hand, she plans her first short film, You will be my ally and co-directs a portrait of the Congolese artist Freddy Tsimba Mavambu with Mirko Popovitch for the ASBL AFRICALIA. In 2014 she founded with Geoffroy Cernaix, Tandor Productions and directed The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman her first creative documentary released in 2017.