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Documentaries
Mboa Melodies
Cameroon - 2020
Documentary - HD - Color - 85mn
Director: Yannick Mindja / Producer: Christian Nougwa fils / Director of Photography: Christian Zilly
Production: Mbollo Sound / Co-production: Patou Films International
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Les Mélodies du Mboa is a documentary film that traces the difficult journey of a Hip-hop, Rap generation, which fought tirelessly in Cameroon to emerge from the shadows. Portraits, analyses, testimonials, interviews, dates and great moments dissect all of this for us.
Face to face
Republic of Congo - 2019
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Eddy MIKOLO / Production: CTP Films
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
En TETE A TETE is a documentary on which journalists and animators reveal the real problems that undermine the practice of journalism in the Republic of Congo.
In the Footsteps of Toumai
Michel Brunet name of humanity
Chad - 2020
Documentary - HD - Color - 90mn
Director: Aaron Padacke Zegoube / Assembly: Photine Carpentier
Production: ONRTV and PATOU FILMS INTERNATIONAL
Synopsis:
is a feature-length documentary film that chronicles the adventures of the discovery of " TOUMAI » in Chad by the team of French paleontologist Michel BRUNET.
" TOUMAI remains the oldest hominid discovered today.
Mboa Melodies
Cameroon - 2020
Documentary - HD - Color - 85mn
Director: Yannick Mindja / Producer: Christian Nougwa fils / Director of Photography: Christian Zilly
Production: Mbollo Sound / Co-production: Patou Films International
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Les Mélodies du Mboa is a documentary film that traces the difficult journey of a Hip-hop, Rap generation, which fought tirelessly in Cameroon to emerge from the shadows. Portraits, analyses, testimonials, interviews, dates and great moments dissect all of this for us.
Un peuple, une culture, un destin
Face to face
Republic of Congo - 2019
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Eddy MIKOLO / Production: CTP Films
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
En TETE A TETE is a documentary on which journalists and animators reveal the real problems that undermine the practice of journalism in the Republic of Congo.
Mboa Melodies
Cameroon - 2020
Documentary - HD - Color - 85mn
Director: Yannick Mindja / Producer: Christian Nougwa fils / Director of Photography: Christian Zilly
Production: Mbollo Sound / Co-production: Patou Films International
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Les Mélodies du Mboa is a documentary film that traces the difficult journey of a Hip-hop, Rap generation, which fought tirelessly in Cameroon to emerge from the shadows. Portraits, analyses, testimonials, interviews, dates and great moments dissect all of this for us.
In the Footsteps of Toumai
Michel Brunet name of humanity
Chad - 2020
Documentary - HD - Color - 90mn
Director: Aaron Padacke Zegoube / Assembly: Photine Carpentier
Production: ONRTV and PATOU FILMS INTERNATIONAL
Synopsis:
is a feature-length documentary film that chronicles the adventures of the discovery of " TOUMAI » in Chad by the team of French paleontologist Michel BRUNET.
" TOUMAI remains the oldest hominid discovered today.
Face to face
Republic of Congo - 2019
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Eddy MIKOLO / Production: CTP Films
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
En TETE A TETE is a documentary on which journalists and animators reveal the real problems that undermine the practice of journalism in the Republic of Congo.
Cameroon/France - 2015
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Erik Grillo, Emmanuel Wandji / Production: Wambo Production
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
This singer-percussionist is above all an original composer who enriches his musical planet through his collaborations. Travels & friends » is a film born from his travels and meetings on 3 continents (France, Cameroon & New York) with some prestigious guests such as Manu Dibango or the beat boxer Kenny Muhammad.
His musical universe is an original mix of urban sounds and ethnic influences. His music has always inspired many choreographers (Merlin Nyakam, Cie Accrorap, Cie Georges Momboye, Pina Bausch)
Through this original documentary, we follow this songwriter in all his encounters and creations.
Manual Wandji "Travels & Friends"
A day in the life
of Mary Magdalene
Senegal/France/Martinique - 2009
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Serge Bilé / Images: Guy Kabeya, Flavie Ngah, Daniel Léno, Frédéric Bonnet, Patrice Château Degat, Jean-Pierre Bernard / Editing: Joby Léger / Music: Jean-Michel Raggioli
Production: Serge Bilé / Distribution: PATOU FILMS INTERNATIONAL
Synopsis:
This documentary approaches for the first time, without taboo, the question of sexuality in convents. It revolves around Josephine, an African ex-sister, who became pregnant in her convent and was sent to Rome to have an abortion and continue her religious life.
In her new congregation, she experiences racism and “ exploitation », forced to work hard in a retirement home, penniless, which will push her into prostitution. A hell, which she escaped fortunately, unlike other colleagues who died after contracting the AIDS virus.
Open air
Cameroon - 2019
Documentary - HD - Color - 2X52mn
Producer, Screenplay, Director : Christian Mbanga Epanda / Production: Overprod studio (ETS)
Image: Christian Mbanga Epanda and Alain Ngassaki Priso / Sound: Kevin Mbella and Daniel Tchoyi / Editing: Christian Mbanga Epanda / Color grading : Gustave Nanjip / Mixing: Kevin Mbella / Management and Administration: Solange Ngueng Ekwelle
Location scout: Steve Hega / Music: Eiteil Mbella and Luc Tsimi
Synopsis:
Poor waste management inevitably has harmful consequences on the environment. In the large cities of sub-Saharan Africa, population growth and the progressive use of manufactured products have exponentially increased the production of waste. In Cameroon, the urban landscapes of Yaoundé and Douala are strongly marked by the problem. Garbage deposits on the sidewalks, wild dumps between homes in popular neighborhoods and waterways polluted by waste of all kinds, announce an environmental crisis to come. Through meetings with populations, institutions in charge of waste management, environmentalists, ecologists and social journalists, we try to understand this phenomenon and its challenges.
Zagor
Cameroon - 2019
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Roméo Ghislain Zafack aka Romy Zaf / Producer: Tomorrow Pictures
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
The hardness of life, the young Cameroonian Guy Roger ZOGO dit Zagor decides to leave the city for his native village. Abandoning the audiovisual he had learned and which no longer guaranteed his survival, he counted on embarking on the cultivation of peppers and later on that of cocoa. To do this, he must defy his wife's refusal to follow her in her “delirium”, without forgetting the lack of capital and above all the hostility of the villagers.
Jean Digne The culture of the Outside
France - 2019
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Aïcha Ouattare / Assembly: Photine Carpentier / Production: Patou Films International
Syno psi s:
Jean Digne is one of the key players in the development and influence of French cultural policy internationally.
From Marseille to Naples, from Kinshasa to Paris, he has reinvented street theater, atypical galleries and brought artists together.
Congo Brazaville - 2015/2018
Documentary - HD - Color - 82mn
Director: David Pierre Fila / With: MFumu Fylla Saint-Eudes, Agustin Ramon San Martin, Juan Montanio, Ndalla, Graille, Casimir Zao... / Production: Bantous Productions
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
The film on the paths of the rumba takes us on a journey while itself traveling with apparent simplicity through a journey on the other side of the world. The paths of the rumba take us through the African coasts, the Congo Basin, Cuba, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, on a journey, steeped in familiar notes, all eager to melt the essence of this African musical art with a look and rhythms from the Congo Basin, in short, the sources that gave it its shape and its soul. The result is the harmony inhabited by the beauty of men and women, and the landscapes embodied by this music, that of travel, exchanges, and peace.
On the paths of Rumba
CORRUPT DREAM
Cameroon - 2018
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Chantal Youdom / Production: GIC ART&Culture / Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Ambition rhymes with strength, courage and determination. Although the path is strewn with obstacles, it is up to us to brave them and come out bigger, stronger. Despite his father's categorical refusal, Moyo decides to leave the family cocoon and realize his dream. Private interview with the President of the Republic of Cameroon, integrate a large training school and finally become a senior executive in the public service. It is with violence that he is brought back to reality. Beautiful Yaoundé is only an illusion ? why leave ? Wise and chastened, Moyo opts to return to the land heir to his ancestors after a tumultuous stay in the capital city.
AYITA
Cameroon - 2017
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Ervy Ken Patoudem / Production: Cameroon Studio & Camera Vision Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Jean Fabrice Ngwa is a young Cameroonian musician specializing in Ayita. A few years ago, during a study trip to eastern Cameroon in a Baka pygmy camp, he discovered this Baka musical instrument. very particular and fell in love with it.
bottle dance
Cameroon - 2014-2017
Documentary - Color - 52mn
Director: Ervy Ken Patoudem / Screenplay: Jean Roke Patoudem
Production: Cameroon Studio, Patou Films International Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
This documentary film explores the Bottle Dance.
Born in the North-West of Cameroon at the beginning of Western colonization, the Bottle Dance is part of the register of ballroom dances. It is undoubtedly one of the first couple dances in Africa.
Very choreographed, it is punctuated by a dance master, a kind of speaker who gives indications to the dancers. His power is such that he can eliminate from the dance the couple who does not obey him...
OKA
Mali - 2015
Documentary - HD - Color - 90mn
Director: Souleyman Cisse / Production: The Cisse Films / Co-production: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
O Ka is the house of an artist's family in Bamako, this house which links him to his parents, his story, his memories and from which his sisters are expelled despite the law one day in 2008. It is also, Mali, his country which he saw rocking in the war, in defiance of the traditions of tolerance which animated it since independence. The fight for truth pushes the artist to speak out and get involved.
Cut ! A Quirky Story
Ivory Coast/France - 2014 /2015
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 90mn
Directors: Toussaint Aka, Osita Aneke / In collaboration with: Grand Poucet Final Editing: Photine Carpentier / Production: ScreenLook.TV (Wow Group) & Patou Films International Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
In 2002, armed with computers and music software, a group of young people led by the charismatic Douk Saga living in France created a movement called "Coupé Décalé". This way of life soothes the pain of the local population, especially that of young people, resulting from the serious Ivorian socio-politico-military crisis dividing the country since 1999. In 2006, the leader of this Jet Set bowed out in Burkina Faso, leaving behind him a legacy difficult to manage by his disunited colleagues. Fans, journalists, stylists, ministers, maquis owners, DJs, writers and musical engineers testify here to this quirky story.
My Child, My Fight (1&2)
Cameroon - 2014
Documentary - HD - Color - 2X52mn
Director: Francis Meli / Production: Camer Vision - Cameroon Studio / Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
After 6 years of marriage, Paulette saw her loving husband abandon the matrimonial home for the simple reason that she was unable to give him children. Now 32, heartbroken Paulette has returned to live with her parents. This is a situation that is commonplace in Cameroon where, moreover, the words sterile, infertile, infertile carry everything their weight in today's Cameroonian society: if there are no children, it is the woman's fault...
Roger Milla, The Legend
Cameroon/France - 2012 /2013
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 90mn
Directors: Alain Fongue & François Xavier Hiondi Nkam IV / Editing: Photine Carpentier / Production: Cameroon Studio, Patou Films International Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Roger Milla is the man who gave a face, an identity to African football. At the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Albert Roger Milla played with his feet and his loins and the stunned world awoke to the scent of football made in Africa. Who is Roger Milla, this footballer Africa, celebrated and admired around the world. Who really knows him and where does he come from elsewhere? Through this documentary, we will pierce the myth of this atypical character who remains present in people's minds 16 years after retiring from sport: Listen to Roger Milla tell his story.
Niger/France - 2013
Documentary - HDCAM - Color - 48mn
Directors: Martin Coursier, Alexis Zelensky / Assembly: Martin Coursier, Alexis Zelensky / Production: Patou Films International , Les Vagabonds Reporters / Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
After several years spent in France, Nigerian reggae singer Salim Jah Peter returns to his native country. Niger, then in full democratic transition after a military coup, is preparing to elect a new president. An ideal opportunity for Salim who decides to travel across his country and organize concerts in order to deliver his message of peace and unity. But the implementation of his project turns out to be strewn with pitfalls and the committed singer, returning home as a conquering hero, comes up against a reality that he had too quickly forgotten... Burlesque face to face between an African from Europe and his compatriots back home, through an eventful musical road movie.
Jah fell on his head
AIDS in Burundi
Burundi/France - 2013
Documentary - HD - Color - 26mn
Director: Laurene Lepeytre / Production: France Television, Protestant Presence
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
"AIDS is a divine punishment". This fatalism has favored the development of the disease for years in Burundi. Against this deadly myth, 12 Burundian Protestant churches have risen up. Together, they agreed on a common position concerning the disease: to change the point of view of the Churches, and to fight against the exclusion of the infected faithful. They have opened screening, treatment and information centers on AIDS. Their principle: "ABC", Abstinence, Be faithful (fidelity) and…. Condom (condom). A real revolution.
Atchuelah
Cameroon - 2012
Documentary - HD - Color - 52mn
Director: Francis Meli / Screenplay: Ervy Patoudem
Production: Cameroon Studio / Cast: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
In Africa and in Cameroon in particular, ancestral traditions still occupy an important place in the daily lives of populations. Despite the many obstacles that stand before them, some of these customs continue to be perpetuated from generation to generation. Among them, the "Venerations of the ancestors".
Commonly called "cult of skulls", the "Venerations of the ancestors" is one of the oldest ancestral traditions of the Bamileke, a people of West Cameroon. It is a means for this people to commune with their ancestors.
Mboko ou l'Enfant de la Rue
Cameroon - 2012
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 52mn
Director: Blaise Pascal Tanguy / Assembly: Photine Carpentier / Production / Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
One fine morning, Ahmadou, a thirteen-year-old Cameroonian from the North finds himself by train in Yaoundé. He finds other young people like him who are in search of the hypothetical happiness that most children their age dream of. These "homeless" face bad weather, disease, pollution, drugs, attacks of all kinds. They are forced to engage in begging and the practice of small trades to survive, under the protection of the gang leaders who exploit them. Faced with all these problems, the outstretched hand comes to them from private or public Listening and Reintegration Centres. Paradoxically, it is neither the cozy beds of these centers, nor their hot and hearty meals, nor the prospect of professional integration that constitutes the concern of our young adventurers, but the ephemeral and dangerous nature of this street life, the daily taste for risk that haunts the minds of all "MBOKO".
Poly Amour
Synopsis:
Coming from a polygamous family of 17 children, Lekou Jean Aimé, 22, cannot count on the help of his father to ensure
a prosperous future, like all his brothers. Aimé is forced to fight on a daily basis. It immerses us in the universe full of
misadventures of a polygamous family. And to corroborate his point of view, polygamists, historian, anthropologist,
sociologist, clergyman and administrative authority draw up a fairly significant report on the impact of polygamy on the
social and economic development of a country.
Director: Ervy Patoudem / Screenplay: Ervy Patoudem /
Production: Cameroon Studio / Distribution: Patou Films International
Cameroon - 2011
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 52mn
le Tueur Silencieux
Cameroon - 2011
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 52mn
Director: Blaise Pascal Tanguy / Screenplay: Ervy Patoudem / Assembly: Alain Fongue, Jean-Baptiste Delpias
Production: 2PG Pictures / Cast: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
In Cameroon, “street drugs”, sold on the sly, constitute a real scourge. More than 60% of the population gets its supplies from sellers with no training and who take advantage of the low purchasing power of their customers to promise them mountains and wonders. Vaccines, serums, insulin, heparins and other heat-sensitive products are diverted from the normal circuit to end up on the stalls of the parallel market. The sources of supply are very varied and often hidden: smuggling, thefts from pharmacies, marketing of medical samples... This illicit circuit, which is still growing, represents more than a quarter of the national market, despite attempts at repression and the development of drugs. yet reputable generics within reach of all budgets.
Synopsis:
The life of a camp in the forest of the Congo Basin is upset by the effects of globalization: logging and the end of caterpillar trees, staple foods, and climate change.
The film is traversed by a questioning of the transmission links between generations, by the relationship to history and memory that is present in this region where the traces of the beginning of things persist.
Director: David-Pierre Fila / Image&Sound: David-Pierre Fila / Editing: Photine Carpentier / Production/Distribution: Patou Films International
Congo - 2011
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 52mn
Territoires
Maady Kaan
Gabon - 2011
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 26mn
Director: Nadine Otsobogo / Assembly: Laurent Ferrari, Fabienne Pacher, Photine Carpentier / Production: Djobusy Production / Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Maady kan? means: Who am I? in this beautiful language that is Wolof. Maady kan? is a real visual spectacle which stages the meeting of three characters through the clay with which they cover themselves, a symbol of the primordial nature of our humanity and also a symbol of an earthly origin .
Synopsis:
Annie-Flore Batchiellilys is a singer with an atypical story. Gabonese and indisputable figure of the music scene of
her country, she was born in Tchibanga, in the south-west of Gabon.
Thanks to donations from the inhabitants of Gabon, patrons and sponsors, she was able to follow the path of her song without getting lost.
to arrive on January 21 at the Olympia in France.
Coming from a country where artists have no rights, where no structure is provided to support their development
career, she owes to her energy, her talent and her unfailing will to have become the artist she is today.
Director: Jean Roke Patoudem / Image&Sound: Jean Roke Patoudem / Editing: Photine Carpentier
Production: Patou Films International and Mboatv / Distribution: Patou Films International
France/Gabon - 2011
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 78mn
Annie Flore Batchiellylis "Sur la route des Anges
Bomengo
Congo - 2010
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 3mn
Director: David-Pierre Fila / Editing: Photine Carpentier
Production/Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Around the fire, deep in the Congo Basin Forest, the last Aka storyteller tells us about ancient times when the Aka man roamed the forest, looking for a wife.
Synopsis:
Every year, the town hall of Paris organizes the ball of July 13 on the place of the Bastille. Placed under the symbol of celebration and social ties, this grand ball is above all a popular gathering around a place rich in history. The ball brings together between 50,000 and 80,000 people each year. This year, it is placed under the sign of diversity and dialogue of cultures through African music.
Bal de la Bastille
Director: Jean Roke Patoudem / Image&Sound: Jean Roke Patoudem / Editing: Photine Carpentier
Production/Distribution: Patou Films International
France - 2010
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 26mn
Salon de Beauté
Congo - 2009
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 26mn
Director: David-Pierre Fila / Editing: Photine Carpentier
Production/Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
A radio in the background, two beauty salons in Brazzaville, with Jena in Bacongo, then with Fatimé in her hairdressing salon located at kilometer 5 in a popular district of Bangui... In the age of globalization.
Guito B "N'Abandonne pas"
Synopsis:
Guito B was born at the end of the 70s. Barely out of adolescence, he left his family when she turned 18 and set off on a musical adventure. Because he likes to sing above all, above all, everywhere and all the time.
From despair to despair, he will have known everything. One day, while singing as usual in the Paris metro, her path crosses that of a man: Roberto.
France - 2009
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 52mn
Director: Jean Roke Patoudem / Image&Sound: Jean Roke Patoudem / Editing: Photine Carpentier
Production/Distribution: Patou Films International
Mila Tu , becoming a Maasai woman without excision
Tanzania/Luxembourg/France- 2009
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 52mn
Directors: Laurene Lepeytre and Charlotte Bruneau
Distribution: Patou Films International
Synopsis:
Since 2007, there is no longer any excision in the village of Monduli, in Tanzania. This secular social landmark is replaced by another symbolic gesture, not mutilating but essential to the integration of young girls into Maasai society.
ZAO
Synopsis:
It was on March 24, 1954 that Casimir Zoba was born in Goma Tsé-Tsé, a village in the Congo. Brazzaville. Zao is an indicator of the evils and problems of the African continent. Through laughter and irony, he conveys a politicized message that is deeply rooted in his time. Zao is a portrait documentary film in homage to a child from Africa. He does not look like anyone, he is a monument, his universe is above all that of words, written and played by him, to awaken our consciences! It's a "modern griot" who sings "cadavere" Africa.
Congo - 2009
Documentary - DVCAM - Color - 52mn
Director: David-Pierre Fila
Production/Distribution: Patou Films International
