LE SPECTRE DE BOKO HARAM

Credits

Name: LE SPECTRE DE BOKO HARAM

Country: Kamerun

Year of publication: 2022

Format: DCP

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Language : OmeU

Duration: 75 Minuten

Series: 20. Afrika Film Festival Köln

Direction: Raingou, Cyrielle

Abstract

Since 2014, Kolofata, a village in northern Cameroon, has been the victim of regular abuses by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Falta, Ladji, Ibrahim, Mohammed, Ismaela and Maloum are between 4 and 11 years old and are trying to find a balance between their childhood and the real and omnipresent threat that surrounds them. In the schoolyard, the children play next to patrolling soldiers. Despite the threat of Boko Haram (LE SPECTRE DE BOKO HARAM, the children retain an innocence and freedom that the adults seem to have lost. In her first feature-length documentary, Cyrielle Raingou gives these children a voice and shows their daily lives through their own words and perspectives.