Rosine Mbakam grew up in Cameroon. She chooses cinema as her metier very early in life, and trained in Yaounde? with the Centro Orientamento Educativo (COE) where she learned cinematography, editing and production. She collaborated and directed several films with COE before joining STV (Spectrum Television) in 2003, where she worked with Mactar Sylla. In 2007, she left Cameroon to study at the Institut Supe?rieur des Arts (INSAS) in Brussels, Belgium. She directed and co-directed several short films, including You Will Be My Ally and a portrait of the Congolese artist Freddy Tsimba 'Mavambu.' In 2014, she and Geoffroy Cernaix founded Ta?ndor Productions, which produced her first feature film, The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman (2016), which won prizes including the prestigious Discovery Award from the Society of Media Authors and Creators (SCAM). Chez Jolie Coiffure (2019) is her second film.