Zurura, Zurura: Le Sourire Fleurit
Zurura, Zurura: The Smile Blooms
Marthe Djilo Kamga
Zurura, Zurura: The Smile Blooms is a visually poetic and philosophical essay. In this film, director Marthe Djilo Kamga revisits the issue of the silenced black female body. She refers to African roots, and the African cultural landscape to offer a new perspective of the black female body. Zurura, Zurura invites new generations to celebrate their blackness.
Marthe Djilo Kamga
Marthe Djilo Kamga looks at issues relating vulnerability, identity and equality. She is the founder and organiser of the Massimadi Festival in Brussels. Thanks to her commitment to art and cultural production (film, performance, photography, etc.) she allows people who are systematically ignored by society to appropriate images and public spaces. Kamga’s publications include When Women Love Other Women: A Consideration of Female Homosexuality in Cameroon and the photo documentation Sikiliza, My Body Talks to You.
Films by Marthe Djilo Kamga
Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sister 2017
