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 …
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.
Kamy Lara was born in 1980 in Angola. In 2007, she started working for independent productions. She was camera assistant on the film A Espada e a Rosa (2010), by João Nicolau, as well as for the French series Maison close, by Mabrouk El Mechri. In 2010, she returned to Angola and joined the team …
Hassen Ferhani was born in Algiers in 1986. From 2003 to 2008, he co-hosts a film club in Algiers. In 2006, he directed his first film, a short fiction film, Les Baies d’Alger, selected in official competition by several international festivals. In 2008, he participated in the summer training of the Fémis and directed a …
Enver Samuel is an award-winning filmmaker involved in television production since 1994. He has a passion for telling the stories of unsung heroes and heroines of the South African struggle against apartheid.
Akuol de Mabior is born in Nairobi, Kenya. She is the daughter of the late John Garang de Mabior (leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the first Vice President of Sudan) and Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior, a South Sudanese politician, fighter for peace in a war torn country and an advocate for women’s …