Rosine Mbakam

A fiction and documentary filmmaker, Rosine Mbakam graduated from the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS) in 2012. She grew up in Cameroon and learned camerawork, editing and filmmaking. She first made a short fiction film, Tu seras mon allié, which won awards in several international festivals. In 2017, she made Les Deux visages d’une femme bamileke,  her first feature-length documentary, which was screened in over sixty festivals (IFFR Rotterdam, Fespaco…). Her next film, Chez jolie coiffure, drew an even bigger audience (Dok Leipzig, True/False, AFI Fest Los-Angeles, Fespaco…). Les Prières de Delphine won the Young Jury Award at Cinéma du réel in 2021.
She launched Caravane Cinéma, which organises open-air screenings to ensure the exhibition of African films in poor neighbourhoods. She also teaches at KASK in Ghent (Belgium).