CLAUDE

NARCISSE WANDJI; CAMEROUN
SYNOPSIS
Mother and widow, Claude is a hairdresser in Yaoundé and lives alone with Petho, her 12-year-old son. One morning, she could no longer find the five hundred thousand francs offered by her tontine for the little hairdressing salon she had been running for several years. Claude immediately suspects his son. In order to teach him a lesson and make him forget any desire for delinquency, she takes him manu militari to a police station. Refusing to file a complaint against his son, Claude bribes a police officer and gets him to spend a night in a cell. When she comes back to pick him up the next day, her son is missing…
BIOGRAPHY
A film teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts in Foumban in Cameroon, Narcisse WANDJI is a Cameroonian screenwriter and director who has a dozen short films to his credit. Known for WALLS (2016), BENDSKINS (2021) and SADRACK (2023). He was also the founder of the international women’s film festival MIS ME BINGA and direct artistic director of the prestigious Ecrans Noirs festival.