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  • 2024
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2024
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 33 m
Mambar Pierrette

Summary The city of Douala is getting ready for the start of the school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighborhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for upcoming social events and ceremonies. More than a seamstress, Pierrette is the confidant of her customers. But when it starts pouring and the rain threatens...

Directed By: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam

Written By: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam

  • 2024
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2024
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Mambar Pierrette

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Summary The city of Douala is getting ready for the start of the school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighborhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for upcoming social events and ceremonies. More than a seamstress, Pierrette is the confidant of her customers. But when it starts pouring and the rain threatens...

Directed By: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam

Written By: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam

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91
Jan 25, 2024
Mbakam’s minimalist aesthetics demolish the binary between nonfiction and fiction to reflect Pierrette’s flawed, humane intentions across the nurturers from many settings.
By Edward Frumkin FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 25, 2024
Mbakam hits a remarkable balance. The sociopolitical truths that make up Pierrette’s losing streak are evident, without the miserable patronizing so common in films about struggle in Africa.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
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Jan 25, 2024
Mbakam has brought the patience of a documentarian to a character study that lets the details create an accumulative affect.
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Production Company Tândor Productions, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Tândor Films, TV5MONDE, Fonds Images de la Francophonie, Coopération Belge au Développement, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Centre Audiovisuel à Bruxelles
Release Date Jan 26, 2024
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Awards

London Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cannes Director's Fortnight
• 1 Nomination
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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