Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa

Director

Biography

Cameroon

Born in 1940 in Douala, Cameroon, Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa is a film director and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, Muna Moto, in 1974. Dikongué-Pipa's films deal with the relationships between elements of traditional Cameroonian culture and the wider world. He became a filmmaker through theater, studied at the Cinema Conservatory in Paris. After three short films (1965-1966), he directed feature films, thus bringing Cameroon cinema to international audiences. An author, playwriter and theater producer, Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa directed and acted in about thirty plays during his life-long career. Biography Source

Filmography

Un simple (1965)
Les Cornes (1966)
Rendez-moi mon père (1966)
Muna Moto (1974)
Le Prix de la liberté (1978)
Kpa Kum (1980)
Music and Music: Super Concert (1981)
Histoires drôles, drôles de gens (1983)
Badyaga (1987)

Films Curated by AFF