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- After an unusual occurrence in a sacred forest, a group of college students return home to find that something is eliminating them, one after another.
- Portrait of fortitude and care centred on a valiant seamstress single mother in Douala.
- A revelatory encounter between an Evangelist sent on a mission and a prostitute.
- Dr. Soye opens a psychiatric clinic in Yaoundé, but as her professional career rises, her personal woes are only beginning.
- A political candidate becomes the focus of drama and rivalry between his wife and several mistresses.
- Wanita (Weza Da Silva), is on a search for her identity. As it is often the case in Bekolo's work, the personal identity of the character is but the smallest manifestation of an identity struggle for an entire people, and the identity struggle of the film itself, of the process of filmmaking, which in this case is literally trying to form itself before our eyes. This is an "afrofuturistic/sci-fi" film, as the website describes it, taking place 150 years in the future when the human race is plagued by a terrible virus - "bad luck." The main character seemingly travels back and forth between the present and the future, and also carries on conversations with ancestors as well as with alternate selves, like Wanita Bis, who wants to be a television star. But the ultimate goal of the film is a philosophical and aesthetic exploration of the dividing line between fiction and reality, which is perhaps Bekolo's main artistic interest. Among the director's memorable lines on the topic, consider the following: "We shouldn't just be making movies, we should be changing reality." Naked Reality relies on a few visual tricks that support the material split between reality and fiction. The black and white creates a stylized atmosphere that, through sharp contrasts, aggressively suggests the future. It also brings to mind experimentation, but at a formal level, it points to a lack (through the implicit lack of color). And this is a film that is indeed missing various parts. The dualism at work here is reinforced in the director's choice of the superimposition. This is a transition effect used to link up two shots that overlap for a few seconds, but in this film the superimpositions last unusually long (by classical cinema conventions). A low-angle shot that travels under the trees returns several times to provide the characters with a kind of visual base on which to build another scene. Since the film lacks traditional sets, the visual splits and fills that void of materiality with itself, as it were. There are also several upside-down shots and a few edited through a negative filter - the reverse of the initial reality. Characters also speak to each other as they peek from behind a curtain, shot through a grainy filter. VLAD DIMA
- Ekah is determined to go to school in a village of fishermen where a girl child's education is considered a taboo. Her drive to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father, Solomon's past.
- A young soldier returns home to find his mother dying of cancer and is forced to make desperate choices with both the police and the underworld only to find himself embattled in a global conspiracy of coercion and murder.
- In Jean-Pierre Bekolo's barbed political satire, an infectious hybrid of horror and science fiction, vampiric femmes fatales emasculate high-ranking Cameroonian officials through ancient rituals of Mevoungou.
- Villagers advise an abusive husband to channel his rage in the army. There, he must come to terms with violent urges that have deep and painful roots.
- Ngando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the tradition. Ndomé; is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé; should marry Ngando's uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.
- Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.
- A little distressed girl seeks to end the circle of abuse that claimed her mother's life. SYNOPSIS In an anglophone crisis setting, a Little distressed girl, witnesses the constant abuse of her mother, by her frustrated Military father SAMB which leads to her untimely death. Left alone with her father, depressed and in grief, this takes a toll on her studies. Instructed to take counseling sessions with the school counselor who she later discovers is about to fall into the same trap as her mother.
- A clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.
- In a west African Plantation in the 60s, A young determined girl must battle family and society to preserve her late father's legacy; A colonial plantation; amid Disagreements , betrayal and secrets. A dramatic musical , An allegory of Neo colonization.
- A young girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into one.
- Drama based on the everyday lives of several Cameroonian families, as men and women try to resolve their different points of view and find lasting love together.
- Four film students run into supernatural trouble when they trespass on a sacred piece of land.
- After a war outbreak in her village due to Cameroon's Anglophone-Crisis, a desperate woman seeks refuge in the forest. A cellphone is her only lifeline, as relies on a stranger's kindness to determine her fate.
- In The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the African continent. The film looks at Christian evangelism as the forerunner of European colonialism in Africa, indeed, as the ideological model for the relationship between North and South even today. In particular it looks at the role of missionaries in Namibia on the centenary of the 1904 German genocide of the Herrero people there. It reveals how colonialism destroyed African beliefs and social systems and replaced them with European ones as if they were the only acceptable routes to modernity. As Prof. F. Kangué Ewané says in the film: "I can forgive Westerners for taking away my land ...but not for taking away my mind and soul." Through an examination of the work of German missionary societies in Africa whose vocation was to bring Christianity - and by extension, European culture and European rule - to the heathens, Jean Marie Teno reveals The Colonial Misunderstanding.
- "Freaky Table" is an English-language talk show that blends social media, cultural trends, and television. It is a fusion of cultural commentary and social media interaction that provides a captivating platform for in-depth discussions.
- The story of three women in a state called Free State relates around a man sentenced to death. One woman arrives from Europe to support the condemned; another is the condemned man's wife, who runs a Bed and Breakfast next to the prison; and the last one teaches French classes in the prison.
- When they meet a talented girl with no schooling, a teacher and young scout challenge tradition in a primal village, when the girl is chosen as the new wife of the village.
- After celebrating Sasha's birthday with bottles of beers and whiskies, her three friends, Johnn, Tom, and Sam decide to take her to a nearby town for more celebrations but on their way, their car hits and kills a passerby on a lonesome road. They decide to hide the crime as Johnny, the governor's son argues that it will negatively influence his father's political career. However, on their way to bury the corpse, their car is stopped by a police officer and as the officer discovers the corpse, he is shot dead by Johnny but unfortunately during the clash, the officers shoots at Sam. To cover up this new crime three other people will die.
- In his film 'La tête dans les nuages' ('Head in the Clouds') Jean-Marie Teno criticizes the ills of the modern world and the regression of African societies. This short documentary shows the capital of the Cameroon, Yaondé, but might equally show other African cities: heaps of rubbish lie at the edge of streets, academics are out of work, officials unpaid, corruption is the norm, and misery everywhere. For Jean-Marie Teno 'colonization, civilization, independence, then humanitarian talk are merely excuses and theatrical gestures to ensure that Africa remains the place which foreign powers can exploit with a good conscience.'
- A biopic based on the life of Dieudonné Afana, A.K.A Jean Miché Kankan, one of the greatest African comedians of all time.
- A once happily married couple struggling for answers after the birth of their only child leaves it's mother distressed and withdrawn. What might change their lives for the better. Therapy.
- A returning vet attending college falls in love with a pretty co-ed and becomes obsessive over her.
- The forgotten story of the armed wing of Mandela's party as told by its former members, shedding light on a decisive chapter in the struggle against apartheid.