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Jean-Pierre Bekolo

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Jean-Pierre Bekolo is a noted African film director from Cameroon. He already garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film Quartier Mozart (1992), with a style that is playful, comic, and sardonic became the representative of a new generation that has been working against the restrictive expectations of African cinema, mixing genres and linking pop with politics. He directed Aristotle's Plot (1996), the African entry in the British Film Institute's series of films commemorating the centenary of cinema that has included the participation of artists such as Scorsese, Bertolucci, Frears, Miller, Reitz, and Godard. Part action movie send-up, part parody of Aristotle's rules, part satire on Africa's preoccupation with itself, this first African film selcted at Sundance shows Bekolo to be an "increasingly fearless trickster."His avant-garde political thriller Les Saignantes (2005) that premiered at the Toronto film festival was nominated in two categories at the French Césars in 2009 and is now considered to be the first African sci-fi movie. Les Saignantes won the Silver Stallion and Best Actress Awards at Fespaco (Pan African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) in 2007. Bekolo has also created in 2008, a video installation called An African Woman in Space that was on display at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, as part of the Diaspora exhibition curated by Claire Denis. Banned in Cameroon in 2013, Jean-Pierre Bekolo's controversial film Le President questions the phenomenon of Africa's "perpetual governments". His new film, a 4 hour documentary Les Choses et Les Mots de Mudimbe is part of the official selection of the 2015 Berlinale. "An unusual film, as fascinating as its object/subject, opulent, sensitive, clever, and radical. Another station of delightful postcolonial, cosmopolitan filmmaking". Alongside his work as a film director, Bekolo is an activist, he writes and publishes, in addition to teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Duke University. Recently he has been dividing his time between the USA, France, and Cameroon, and starting in the summer of 2015 he will be a fellow of the Artists Program at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.
BornJune 8, 1966
BornJune 8, 1966
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      • 5 wins & 3 nominations total

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    The Bloodettes (2005)
    The Bloodettes
    5.8
    • Director
    • 2005
    Quartier Mozart (1992)
    Quartier Mozart
    6.3
    • Director
    • 1992
    Emile Abossolo M'bo, Andrea Larsdotter, Xolile Tshabalala, and Maryne Bertieaux in Miraculous Weapons (2017)
    Miraculous Weapons
    5.7
    • Director
    • 2017
    Weza Da Silva in Naked Reality (2016)
    Naked Reality
    • Director
    • 2016

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    Director



    • Our Wishes
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Afrique, La pensée en mouvement Part I (2018)
      Afrique, La pensée en mouvement Part I
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Emile Abossolo M'bo, Andrea Larsdotter, Xolile Tshabalala, and Maryne Bertieaux in Miraculous Weapons (2017)
      Miraculous Weapons
      5.7
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Weza Da Silva in Naked Reality (2016)
      Naked Reality
      • Director
      • 2016
    • V.Y. Mudimbe in Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe (2015)
      Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Gérard Essomba in Le président (2013)
      Le président
      6.8
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Diaspora (2007)
      Diaspora
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2007
    • Imagine Afrika (2007)
      Imagine Afrika
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2007
    • The Bloodettes (2005)
      The Bloodettes
      5.8
      • Director
      • 2005
    • La grammaire de grand mère...
      5.4
      Short
      • Director
      • 1996
    • Nihon eiga no hyaku nen (1995)
      Century of Cinema
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1996
    • Quartier Mozart (1992)
      Quartier Mozart
      6.3
      • Director
      • 1992

    Writer



    • Our Wishes
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 2020
    • Emile Abossolo M'bo, Andrea Larsdotter, Xolile Tshabalala, and Maryne Bertieaux in Miraculous Weapons (2017)
      Miraculous Weapons
      5.7
      • Writer
      • 2017
    • Weza Da Silva in Naked Reality (2016)
      Naked Reality
      • Writer
      • 2016
    • V.Y. Mudimbe in Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe (2015)
      Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe
      • Writer
      • 2015
    • The Bloodettes (2005)
      The Bloodettes
      5.8
      • Writer
      • 2005
    • Nihon eiga no hyaku nen (1995)
      Century of Cinema
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 1996
    • Quartier Mozart (1992)
      Quartier Mozart
      6.3
      • Writer
      • 1992

    Producer



    • Walaandé (2023)
      Walaandé
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Jon-Carlos Evans in Tout Le Monde (2023)
      Tout Le Monde
      Short
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Our Wishes
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 2020
    • V.Y. Mudimbe in Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe (2015)
      Les choses et les mots de Mudimbe
      • producer
      • 2015
    • Gérard Essomba in Le président (2013)
      Le président
      6.8
      • producer
      • 2013
    • The Bloodettes (2005)
      The Bloodettes
      5.8
      • producer
      • 2005
    • Quartier Mozart (1992)
      Quartier Mozart
      6.3
      • producer
      • 1992

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      • June 8, 1966
      • Yaoundé, Cameroon
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