Muna moto
Director: Dikongué- Pipa
1975 / 89min / DCP
The first feature film produced in Cameroon, Muna moto—the title is Duala for “the child of the other”—focuses on a young couple, Ngando and Ndomé, who, despite the fact that Ndomé is carrying her lover’s child, cannot be married because of Ngando’s inability to pay the necessary dowry, leaving hapless Ndomé to be snapped up by Ngando’s uncle, desirous of the heir his three sterile wives have thus far failed to provide him, and leading Ngando to take desperate measures. Winner of the Silver Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival, Pipa’s film would go on to win further plaudits abroad, and announce the emergence of an unapologetically brash, rabble-rousing new voice in Central African cinema.
Distributor: Janus Films
Introduction by filmmaker Director and Film Curator Mohamed Challouf on Saturday, April 18th
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