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Clando
2022  |  24min  |  Documentary  |  NR
Synopsis
Clando is a typical long-distance bus leaving the remote countryside of Cameroon to the economic capital, Yaoundé. Its thirty seats carry people with diverse reasons for travelling but most are in search of a better life in the French-speaking capital. As an English-speaking minority, they are considered migrants inside their own country. This clando bus, just like many others, is on its twelve-hour odyssey carrying hawker Lina Ike, the hilarious bus “Massa doctor” selling medication which she claims cures many ailments, a revolutionary preacher who collects alms after preaching, a deported migrant, Basil Tebo, who shares his story of strife trekking through Latin America to illegally enter the USA. But also Ayeah Leonette, an internally displaced single mother seeking a better life. Clando, the name for the clandestine buses that transport internal migrants in Cameroon, has to go through identity-checking posts run by French-speaking police, customs and gendarmes acting as immigration officials inside the country. In the lively Clando, filled with arguing, buying and selling, many stories make up the humorous nature of the film that provides another view of why and how economic migrants travel inside Cameroon.
Cast
Eystein Young Dingha, Herbert Nfor, Don Edkins, Tiny Mungwe
Director:
Eystein Young Dingha
Country of Origin:
South Africa, Cameroon
Language(s):
English, French, Kamtok, Medunga, Bikom, Bamileke
Thematic Focus:
Poverty, Migration, Social Justice, Crime & Violence
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