Cameroon

François Woukoache was born in 1966 in Yaounde, Cameroon. He studied mathematics, science, and cinema at the University of Paris VII. In 1989, Woukoache continued his film studies at INSAS in Brussels. While there, he made several short films: Une Nuit et des Jours dans la Ville, Feuilles Morte, and Melina, which won awards at festivals in Amiens, Milan, and Paris in 1992. Between 2013 and 2016, he coordinated the Faces of Life project, which trains Rwandan women from disadvantaged backgrounds to use the visual arts as a means of critical expression and social transformation. His latest film, Ntarabana, a documentary feature, follows the work he has been doing in Rwanda for over fifteen years and concludes a triptych on Rwanda post 1994: We Are No Longer Dead, Icyizere, Ntarabana.

Filmography

Asientos (1996)
Smoke in the Eyes (1997)
Fragments de vie (1998)
Nous ne sommes plus morts (2000)
Ibitekerezo by' Abana (2001)
Humura (2004)
Témoignage de Astérie, rescapée du génocide de 1994 (2004)
Icyizere, l'espoir (2006)
Iryo Nabonye tour in prisons (2007)
Ubuzima bw'umugore (2007)
Reconciliation in Rwanda (2009)
La dame du 4e étage (2009)
Kongossa (2009)
A journey with King faisal Hospital, Kigali (2010)
Ntarabana (2016)