23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Les saignantes

Bleeding
by Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Country: Cameroon
Year: 2005
Duration: 92'


Two fascinating women who use their beauty to win the favors of powerful men come into contact with an important minister. When the man dies under compromising circumstances, a complex plot is unveiled that includes cut-off heads and women's secret societies and involves the destiny of an entire nation in turmoil. Sex for sale, corpses in the streets and corruption at the highest levels in a provocative, political fanta-thriller that takes place in Cameroon in 2025.

"To be a woman in Cameroon also means having evil powers. Those who give life can also take it away. It is the power of Woman who, like the plants, knows the fluctuations of the seasons. She bleeds as though she was wounded and then she doesn't bleed anymore, as though she had been healed. She has the dizziness of life, she rises like the dawning day, turns like the earth, she wonders what she is made of. Questions that don't interrupt the infernal cycle, the privileged dialog with nature." ( J.P. Bekolo)

Biography

film director

Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Yaoundé, Cameroon, 1966) has made numerous short films, including Boyo (1988), Un Pauvre Blanc (1989), Mohawk People (1990), Le Complot d'Aristote (1996) and Original Sin Toronto (1998). His first fulllength film, Quartier Mozart (1992) won the Prix Afrique en Création at the Festival of Cannes. He is a professor of the Literature Department of Duke University and till 2002 he worked at the University of North Carolina.

FILMOGRAFIA

Boyo (cm, 1988), Un Pauvre blanc (cm, 1989), Mohawk People (cm, 1990), Quartier Mozart (1992), Le Complot d'Aristote (cm, 1996), La Grammaire de Grand-Mère (cm, 1996) Original Sin Toronto (cm, 1998), Les Saignantes (2005).

TFF

prizes

HOLDEN AWARD 2005

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