Rosine Mbakam was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon and is currently based in Belgium. In 2014, she founded with Geoffroy Cernaix, Tandor Productions and directed The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman, her first documentary. Mbakam’s 2019 Chez Jolie Coiffure, a documentary capturing the day-to-day lives and concerns of immigrant West African women in a small hair salon in Brussels, screened at several festivals and won the Spirit of the Festival Prize at Light Film Festival 2019. Her 2021 documentary, Delphine's Prayers, is an intimate portrait of a Cameroonian immigrant living in Brussels.