Walls
Director: Narcisse Wandji
Cameroun, 2016
14 minutes
Richard Meka, ex-general manager of “NTEP & FILS” is imprisoned at the MABIDO detention center where he has been awaiting his trial in vain for 4 years. He saw this situation as a real torture, but what gives him the strength to endure is his son, Martin MÉKA, who is also his lawyer. That fiction plunges us into this opaque and dark system that is the prison universe. A universe created by the author, with characters who hold their roles. It is indeed at the Madibo detention center that the viewer meets Richard Meka who, accused of embezzlement of public funds, is still waiting for his judgement. Walls is especially this psychological suffering that tortures this father who realizes his son, his lawyer, also ends up doubting him. The struggle of a man who realizes that he is perhaps alone in fighting for his innocence, faced with a fuzzy and complex judicial system. In the eyes of Richard Meka, during his last trained conversation with his son, there was a disappointment which mingled with the icy and mute atmosphere of this communication room.