Award-Winning Filmmaker 🏆
MEET JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO
Internationally acclaimed film director, known for his bold, satirical, and genre-defying films. Bekolo’s work challenges conventional cinematic norms, reshaping African narratives through experimental storytelling that engages and provokes audiences around the world. Advocating for artistic freedom his cinema is not just “African,” or postcolonial, or experimental, or narrative. It is also a cinema that constantly searches for itself, for what it is and what it can accomplish.
Bekolo’s Cinema Achievements
Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s filmography is a testament to his creative brilliance and willingness to challenge cinema norms. His films not only entertain but also provoke thought, addressing critical issues within the African context and beyond.
“Quartier Mozart” (1992)
“Aristotle’s Plot” (1995):
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Best Books
Jean-Pierre Bekolo: Cinema as a Tool for Postcolonial Transformation
The role of Africa’s creative intellectuals, whether labeled ‘native’ by Fanon or ‘negro’ by Cruse, has been scrutinized throughout the post-colonial era. Bekolo’s new work adds to this conversation but goes beyond critiquing ‘colonial mentality.’ He advocates for filmmakers to move away from didacticism towards a more clinical, healing approach, echoing Armah’s call for healers.
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Ongoing Projects
A Global Authority in Filmmaking Workshops
Bekolo in 60sec
Bekolo has conducted workshops in various countries, sharing his expertise and passion for cinema. From the USA 🇺🇸 to Brazil 🇧🇷, France 🇫🇷, Cameroon 🇨🇲, Colombia 🇨🇴, Switzerland 🇨🇭, Germany 🇩🇪 (Dortmund), Senegal 🇸🇳 (Dakar), Sweden 🇸🇪 (Stockholm), Austria 🇦🇹 (Vienna), Buea 🇨🇲, and South Africa 🇿🇦 (Johannesburg), his influence has reached diverse audiences, empowering the next generation of creative minds and filmmakers worldwide.
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Healing Cinema: Reimagining Humanity and African Cinema from a Place of Transformation
In today's world, we are inundated with illness—not only physical disease like COVID-19, but also social and political maladies. The rise of extreme-right movements, escalating violence, and human suffering highlight our global sickness. For so long, art, knowledge,...
Jean-Pierre Bekolo : “Les cinéastes africains craignent la littérature”
Le réalisateur camerounais Thierry Ntamack annonce pour bientôt la sortie officielle de son prochain film Walaande. Une adaptation du roman éponyme de l'écrivaine camerounaise Djaïli Amadou Amal. Le long métrage fiction est le produit du programme Scripto Sensa...
The African Spiritual Void
In discovering Candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion born from slavery, I began to reflect on Africa's current spirituality. Afro-Brazilians teach us a crucial lesson: when Africans face dehumanizing and unbearable conditions, they must resist, and this resistance...