Bassek Ba Kobhio (born 1957) is a Cameroonian filmmaker, writer[1] and founder of the Ecrans Noirs[2] film festival in Yaounde, Cameroon.
[4] He started as a writer, winning a short story award while still at high school in 1976.
His second film, Le grand blanc de Lambaréné (1995), brought out the complexities of character of Albert Schweitzer.
Despite clear differences of setting and subject matter, both films "offer vivid portraits of flawed idealists who wish to do good, but are authoritarian, puritanical, at odds with their surroundings and neglectful towards their womenfolk".
[5] In 2003 he collaborated with Didier Ouénangaré on The Silence of the Forest, an adaptation of a novel by Étienne Goyémidé.