The village, battered by the Boko Haram insurgency and home to several relief camps, has come to represent something of a starting over point for some of the subjects of Paris-based Cameroonian filmmaker Cyrielle Raingou’s debut feature-length, Le Spectre de Boko Haram (The Spectre of Boko Haram). With this fascinating and tenderly shot documentary, Raingou offers a different narrative of the chronic Boko Haram insurgency, giving her perspective through the eyes of children who are caught up in the violence. The Spectre of Boko Haram accounts for the unbreakable will of the people and the ordinary ways in which they resist. I always wanted to depict life in that region, how Boko Haram atrocities were impacting the people. Le spectre de Boko Haram – trailer | IFFR 2023 www.youtube.comYou are making a movie about children living in a war-affected region.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 24, 2023 05:45 UTC