feature · comedy, drama, fantasy · video-wave
Made when Jean-Pierre Bekolo was 22, this Yaounde-set comedy follows a girl transformed into a man by a witch so she can understand male desire firsthand, and won the Prix Afrique en Creation at Cannes along with recognition at Locarno and Montreal.
Fun fact: Bekolo wrote, directed, edited, and produced the film himself, inventing a cinematic grammar critics still cite as distinctly his own.
Notes: Runtime 80 minutes; Cameroon/France co-production. Corrected 2026-07-29: original description vaguely claimed "prizes at Cannes, Locarno, and Montreal" without naming them; Torino Film Festival archive material confirms a Prix Afrique en Creation at Cannes, but the specific Locarno and Montreal award names have not been independently re-confirmed in this pass, hence probable status pending a named-award citation for those two.
Verification: probable · Sources:
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Poster source: African Film Festival, Inc.