One of the emerging voices of feminist African filmmaking, the Cameroonian director Osvalde Lewat-Hallade is well on her way to becoming her continent's Kim Longinotto or Barbara Kopple, forging direct cinema with activist power. Like Longinotto's Sisters in Law, The Forgotten Man casts an insightful eye on the vagaries of the Cameroon justice system, here presenting the true case of a man sentenced to four years in jail who, through judicial neglect and incompetence, remains incarcerated thirty-three years later.