Le spectre de Boko Haram

dir. Cyrielle Raingou/Cameroon/2023/75 min.

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Gdyńskie Centrum Festiwalowe, sala Morskie Oko

2023-05-15

18:45

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Since 2014, the terrorist organisation Boko Haram has led strikes against the villages and people of the Far North Region of Cameroon. Today, this constant threat of violence has woven itself into daily existence. In her profoundly affecting debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of children as they carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict. We meet the precocious Falta, studious and hardworking, eager to process her father’s death in a terrorist attack. Her classmate, Ibrahim, and his older brother Mohamad struggle with balancing their boyhood energy and a traumatic past that strays them from their eight and 11-year-old innocence.

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projection time:

75 min.
country/year:

Cameroon /2023
director:

Cyrielle Raingou
pictures:

Cyrielle Raingou, Bertin Fotso
editor:

Christine Bouteiller
production:

Veronique Holley, Dieudonne Alaka / Tara Group, Label Video
festivals and awards:

2023 – Rotterdam IFF: Tiger Award

sections:

Places
competitions:

Warsaw Documentary Award ETNOMATOGRAF Award
tags:

Africa growing up education awarded human rights psychology relations