Anamocot

Anamocot

2025 · 91 min · ★ 8.0 · Documentary

After a 20-year long fruitless search in the Cameroonian forest, Frenchman Michel Ballot is on the verge of giving up his lifelong quest to find the mysterious creature known as the Mokélé-Mbembé. Turning to local initiates for help, and torn between ancestral wisdom and scientific evidence, he embarks on a final journey into powers, knowledge and the unseen.

Directed by Marie Voignier · Written by Marie Voignier

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