Rosine Mbakam was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon and is currently based in Belgium. In 2014, she founded with Geoffroy Cernaix, Tandor Productions and directed The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman, her first documentary. Mbakam’s 2019 Chez Jolie Coiffure, a documentary capturing the day-to-day lives and concerns of immigrant West African women in a small hair salon in Brussels, screened at several festivals and won the Spirit of the Festival Prize at Light Film Festival 2019. Her 2021 documentary, Delphine's Prayers, is an intimate portrait of a Cameroonian immigrant living in Brussels.
Rosine Mbakam
Yaoundé, Cameroon | Belgium
Films
Mambar Pierrette
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(2023)
This narrative feature is a moving portrait of fortitude and care centered on a valiant seamstress and single mother in Douala, Cameroon.
Delphine's Prayers
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(2021)
A portrait of a Cameroonian immigrant in Belgium who endured years of sexual abuse and trauma.
Chez Jolie Coiffure
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(2018)
A portrait of Sabine, a charismatic, larger-than-life personality, crammed into a tiny shop in the immigrant Brussels district of Matonge.
The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
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(2018)
An exploratory documentary by a daughter about her mother in Cameroon. Mama Bamiléké tells daughter Rosine Mbakam about arranged marriage, a second wife in the family, poverty, and repression by the French.
