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Le Maréchalat du Roi-Dieu ( Gabon 2012 )

Color: Documentary, 52’

Direction: Yveline Nathalie Pontalier

Production: IGIS (ex CENACI)

Synopsis

André Ondo Mba lives in Libreville with his two sons in a modest house. He suffers from acute paranoid schizophrenia and is deaf. Over the years, he has developed a graphic art through writing, where he preaches the mythologies that are dictated to him from above.

Réalisateur

Yveline Nathalie Pontalier is a documentary filmmaker from Gabon. She has studied techniques of image - Cinema in Brussels. The issues of social exclusion are recurring subjects in his film projects. These choices are driven by his personal background, his environment, and listening to people that nobody listens to in order to enable them to express themselves in showing the complexity of their lives beyond the clichés.