Cahier Africain ([kaje afʁikɛ̃], "African Notebook") is a 2016 documentary film by Heidi Specogna, a Swiss filmmaker.
Beginning in 2008, Specogna's long-term observation follows the lives of two young Central African women, Amzine and Arlette.
The film was prompted by the discovery of a small exercise book, full of courageous testimonies by more than 300 victims of war crimes committed by Central African mercenaries during armed conflict between October 2002 and March 2003.
Giorgia Del Don wrote about Cahier Africain in Cineuropa: "Heidi Specogna's latest film literally speaks through images [..] about a sad and hopeless beauty.
[4] Cahier Africain received the 2016 German Human Rights Film Award (Deutscher Menschenrechts-Filmpreis) [5]