Mambar Pierrette. 2023. Directed by Rosine Mbakam

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Held on Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

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Mambar Pierrette. 2023. Cameroon/Belgium. Directed by Rosine Mbakam. Courtesy Icarus Films

For members at the Explore category and above, tickets will become available two weeks before the screening date, starting at 10:30 a.m. Additional tickets will be available to members and the general public one week before the screening date, also at 10:30 a.m. Please note that space is extremely limited and tickets will be in high demand.

Mambar Pierrette. 2023. Cameroon/Belgium. Directed by Rosine Mbakam. DCP. Courtesy Icarus Films. In French and Pidgin; English subtitles. 93 min.

"In a captivating new film evoking her superb 2018 documentary Chez jolie coiffure, which followed the proprietor of a hair salon in the African Matonge district of Brussels, director Rosine Mbakam returns to her home country of Cameroon to follow an equally charismatic protagonist: the good-natured yet exhausted seamstress Mambar (played by the director’s cousin, Pierrette Aboheu Njeuthat), struggling to make ends meet in the city of Douala. In trying to pay debts, raise children, and keep her business going, Mambar contends with continual mishaps and setbacks, each fortifying her against an uncompromising world. A drama of quotidian elegance fueled by the observational beauty of Mbakam’s nonfiction work, Mambar Pierrette quietly sneaks up on the viewer in its powerfully subtle representation of the ways in which women exist under patriarchal oppression." (New York Film Festival notes, 2023)

This film accompanies The Contenders 2023.

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