ROSINE MBAKAM

Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam grew up in Cameroon in a traditional family. She chose cinema at a very early age and trained in Yaoundé thanks to the team of the Italian NGO COE where she was introduced to image, editing and directing in 2000. She collaborated and directed several films for this structure before joining in 2003 Spectrum television where she directed and edited several audiovisual programs. In 2007 she left Cameroon and enrolled in Brussels for a training course in directing at INSAS. With her diploma in her pocket, she offers a first short film Tu seras mon allié and co-directs for the non-profit organization AFRICALIA, with Mirko Popovitch a portrait of the Congolese artist Freddy Tsimba "Mavambu". In 2014, she founded Tandor Productions with Geoffroy Cernaix and directed Les Deux Visages d'une femme bamileke, her first creative documentary (2017). The film is selected in about sixty festivals including the IFFR Rotterdam. It has received numerous awards around the world. In 2018, she directs her second feature-length documentary film Chez jolie coiffure, which has its world premiere in DOK Leipzig. The film already has several dozen selections. Since 2019, she is working on PRISM, which should be completed by 2021. She is also finished her third feature-length documentary film The Prayers of Delphine.