Catalogue des films de « Jean-Marie Teno »

Ernestine Ouandie never knew her father, Ernest Ouandie, a militant who was summarily executed by the Cameroonian authorities in 1971 after fighting for his country’s independence. In 2006, Jean-Marie Teno, one of Ernest’s admirers, met...

Set in St-Leon, a modest neighbourhood tucked between the cathedral and two mosques in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where for 40 years, the world's famous FESPACO (Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou) showcases the...

Some Christians went to preach Gospel and convert people all around the word to Christianity. Most of them have attended and supported colonization in Africa helping private interests and their own countries interests. How did we get into that...

" When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible." Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first elected...

This is the chronicle of a particular afternoon during which the lives of three people were changed. Alex, the husband, goes to fetch his second wife to take her back to his house. Elise, his childhood sweetheart and his first wife, goes with him...

"A journey that tracks down the fantasy of modernity which haunts the Cameroon society. During the summer holidays, I made and another trip from the big city Yaoundé to Bandjoun my home village. The last time had been thirty years ago. My aim...

The weekend of December 20, 1997, I travelled to my village to attend the inauguration of a monument honoring one of our past chiefs. I planned to spend several days videotaping dances. However, on the morning of the second day of festivities, I...

For centuries, Africa was marked by the violence of the slave trade and of European colonialism. After independence, the violence of colonial regimes gave way to domestic corruption and violence which have invariably steered the African continent...

Thirty years after Africa's wave of independences in 1960, the end of the cold war and the dramatic political changes taking place around the world, inspire a generation of young Africans to take the streets and challenge the one-party state and...

After a long separation, two friends evoke, with mischievousness and affection, their memories and actual problems their Cameroonian village, like many other African villages, must face.