SYNOPSIS
The city of Douala is in trepidation for the start of the new school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighbourhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for imminent social events and ceremonies. More than just a sewer, Pierrette becomes the confidant of her customers, of a generation. But when the rain starts pouring down and threaten to flood her workshop – one of several successive misfortunes – Pierrette will have to stay afloat.
BIOFILMOGRAPHY
Rosine Mbakam grew up in Yaoundé in a popular neighborhood that nourished her imagination as a filmmaker. After working for 3 years at STV in Douala as a director and producer, she joined INSAS, a Belgian film school. Her graduation film You will be my ally is very remarkable. In order to be independent, she founded her own production company Tândor Productions. She directed 4 feature-length documentaries that were selected in the most important film festivals in the world. She is also a teacher and researcher at KASK in Ghent. The New Yorker defines her as “an original filmmaker of exceptional sensitivity; one of the greatest documentary filmmakers working today”. She is currently finishing her first feature film Mambar Pierrette.