Short film
Raphia
Paul Mouketa · 1986
Synopsis
A short film from the late 1980s for which no accessible presentation summarises the story or names the characters. The articles that cite it today, on the occasion of retrospectives of Gabonese cinema held in Libreville, group it with other short films of those years that question the place of man in modern society.
Context
Produced and distributed by the national Gabonese film institution, today the Institut gabonais de l'image et du son, the film runs thirty-five minutes, with Dominique Diatta and Michèle Babin. The Gabonese press dates it to 1986, Africiné to 1987. Laurent Owondo, novelist and playwright, was its screenplay adviser, according to Info241. It was shown in 2012 at the Écrans noirs festival, in Cameroon.
Who it is for
A medium-length film in French, of about half an hour, distributed by the archives of Gabonese cinema.
Prizes and reception
Tanit d'or for short film at the Carthage Film Festival in 1988, according to Africiné.