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The Planter's Plantation is a 2022 Cameroonian musical drama film written and directed by Eystein Young Dingha. The film was Cameroon's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2023 Academy Awards. It won multiple awards including the 2023 FESPACO Ousmane Sembène Prize and the top prize at the Ecrans Noirs Festival.

The soundtrack Symphonies of Isambile was nominated for Best Movie Soundtrack at the 2023 Cameroon International Festival Music Awards. It features 17 tracks, blending a variety of musical styles and mixing African rhythms, folk melodies and choral arrangements. According to Dingha:

"The Planter’s Plantation is an allegory of new-colonialism. It is a very bleak story in which we tried to insert things that offer a lighter mood. Then music makes sense, absolutely. Indeed, music will take you on an emotional journey and connect you to Africans. The foundation of our nations was created with music. We have the « Rally song » that we sing to celebrate our nationalism, our countries, our identity. So we used music to represent all this and also to give a brighter side to the movie."