UNE AFFAIRE DE NÈGRES (Cameroun, 2007)



Documentaire - Couleur – 90’
Direction: Osvalde Lewat
Screenplay: Osvalde Lewat
Director of Photography: Philippe Radoux-Bazzini
Sound: Antoine Mbesse Amougu, Edimo Dikobo
Music: Rasyn
Editing: Danièle Anezin
Production: AMIP, WAZA IMAGES


Synopsis

In 2000 over a period of one year, a special unit created to fight organized crime in the Douala region in western Cameroon was responsible for the disappearance of some 1,000 people. “They say that Africans aren’t ready for democracy, but I ask myself, have they ever been ready for dictatorship?” (Wole Soyinka). Osvalde Lewat has made that question her own; concerned by this tragedy and the distress of the families who are fighting to find out what happened to their loved ones. Their lawyer deplores: “As long as it’s black business, Negro business, no one cares.” This film strives to make it a men and women’s concern.


THE DIRECTOR

Osvalde Lewat was born in Cameroon in 1976. She was a journalist then studied at l’Institut National de l’Image et du Son de Montréal.

Her credits include «Le calumet de l’espoir» (2000), «Itilga, les destinées» (2001), «Audelà de la peine» (2003), «Un amour pendant la guerre» (2005).


Contact

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