Cameroon / 2007 / 115mins / Drama / French

Suzy will do anything to leave her native Cameroon for Paris, but after risking the journey and enduring seemingly endless ordeals, she finds that Paris is not the paradise of which she dreamed. This film presents a powerful portrait of a young woman whose dreams and perhaps false hopes are shared by many young people today.

Josephine Ndagnou

Joséphine Ndagnou, a native Cameroonian, holds a diploma inAudio-Visual Production from the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle in Paris, and a Masters in Cinematographic and Audio-Visual Studies from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. A director with the national television station of Cameroon (CRTV) for many years, she has played a role in many telefilms produced by CRTV and appears in Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes. Paris or Nothing is her first full-length film. The film, which focused on immigration, was a success in Africa, and an award-winning feature film, in 2009, at FESPACO in Ouagadougou and at the Vue d'Afrique Festival in Montreal. Learn More