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Cyrielle Raingou
Director of "Le Spectre de Boko Haram", winner of the 2023 Tiger Award in Rotterdam
On screen : Le Spectre de Boko Haram (2023)
Who are they?
Cyrielle Raingou is a Cameroonian director and screenwriter. She holds a master's degree in law from the University of Yaoundé II and turned to film, earning a master's in documentary directing from the European DocNomads programme. She began with short films, including "Challenge" (2017) and "The Lamb".
What made them famous
Her first feature, the documentary "Le Spectre de Boko Haram", follows three children in Kolofata, in the Far North Region, growing up under the threat of the armed group. It won the €40,000 Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2023, at the festival's 52nd edition.
Key facts
- The film went on to win the Paul Robeson Prize at FESPACO 2023 and the Silver Montgolfière at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes.
- In 2018 she was a Mandela Washington Fellow.
- Her fiction project "Pour toi je reviendrai" ("I'm Coming for You"), about a young mother cast out by her community in northern Cameroon, won the Kirch Foundation award at Munich Film Up! in 2022.