Régis Sauder was born in 1970 in the East of France. After studying neurosciences and initiating a career in scientific publications, he turned to documentary filmmaking and directed his first feature film, Children of the Princess of Cleves in 2011. Régis Sauder also works with theaters and museums for the creation of art installations.
Thomas Lacoste was born in 1972. Between 1999 and 2005, he created and directed the transdisciplinary festival of contemporary creations Rencontres Internationales de l’Ordinaire (RIO) in Bordeaux.In 2006, before the presidential campaign of 2007, he launched and animated L’Autre campagne, which led to a book of the same name.In 2007, he directed the documentaries Réfutations, …
Mathieu Amalric directed the films Mange ta soupe, Le Stade de Wimbledon (2001), La Chose publique (2003), On Tour (2010), L’Illusion comique (2010), Sfar (dessins) (2010), The Blue Room(2014), Barbara (2017), Maîtres anciens (2021) et Hold Me Tight (2021).
HÀ Lệ Diễm was born in 1991 in Tay ethnic minority group living in the mountains of Northeast Vietnam. She left her hometown to study journalism at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi, from where she graduated in 2013. Children of the Mist is her first feature documentary film project. She is …
Curated by Hicham Falah, general delegate of the Agadir FIDADOC and its “Documentary Beehive”, five case studies from five different geographic regions offer insights into the diverse conditions in which documentary film is created and produced on the African continent. Alongside questions of funding, we also address the issues of representation and the films’ artistic …
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a visual artist originally from Lesotho, he came to cinema as a self-taught artist and now lives in Berlin. Mother, I am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You was selected in 2018 for the Final Cut in Venice, where it won six awards. It had its world premiere at …
Daphne Xu is a Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker exploring the politics and poetics of place. She received her BA in Anthropology from Brown University and an MCP from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a fellow at the Harvard University Film Study Center and an associate of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. Her short …
Hinde Boujemaa is a Belgian-Tunisian director and screenwriter. Author in 2012 of her first feature documentary C’était mieux demain (official selection at the Venice Film Festival), she moved to fiction in 2014 with …et Roméo a épousé Juliette, several times awarded. In 2019, she directed Noura rêve (official selection at the Toronto film festival and …
Mohamed Saïd Ouma is a filmmaker, former director of festivals in Reunion and Comoros, trainer and lecturer on Indian Ocean cinema, representative of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles in the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI). He has just been appointed head of DOC-A (Documentary Africa Fund), a pan-African initiative to strengthen the documentary film network …
Amina Abdoulaye Mamani is a director and producer. Her passion for cinema led her to train at the African Documentary Film Forum in Niamey in 2008. Hawan idi, her graduation documentary film wins the Film Schools Best Documentary Award at Fespaco 2013.In 2018, after a long research work, she signs Sur les traces de Mamani …
Inadelso Cossa is a Mozambican film director, cinematographer, producer, and the founder of 16mmFILMES, an independent film and television company based in Mozambique. His work explores different phases of Africa’s, particularly Mozambique’s, history from a personal perspective. Investigating the Colonial, Post Colonial, Independence, and Post Civil War periods, Cossa finds it his duty to document …
Born in Luanda (Angola) in 1985, Paula Agostinho graduated in Performing Arts in 2007, in Lisbon (Portugal), while taking piano and singing lessons. Back in Luanda in 2013, she became a producer at Geração 80, producing commercials, music videos and institutional videos.