Palestinian filmmaker and screenwriter Samaher Alqadi is one of nine children and grew up in the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank. She first worked for the Palestinian Ministry of Culture before being accepted at the Egyptian Institute of Cinema in Cairo. An emerging voice in Arab documentary, she focuses on the …
Amédée Pacôme Nkoulou started as an assistant director on feature films and documentary series. In parallel with his creations, he works at the Gabonese Institute of Image and Sound. His first short fiction film, L’Enfant unique (2014) was selected at FESPACO, the Ecrans Noirs and other festivals around the world. Boxing Libreville is his first …
Director and photographer, Sonia At Qasi-Kessi lives and works in Bouzeguène, a town in Haute-Kabylie. She photographs pastoral activities, the peaceful and rough life of women and their daily tasks, which are also hers. Far from folkloric stagings and ethnicist representations, his black and white photos bear witness to his natural environment and current life …
Tovo Rasoanaivo s’est formé sur le tas, dans une chaîne de télévision locale malgache. En 2009 il a suivi pendant 2 mois l’université d’été de la FEMIS à Paris pour se perfectionner dans le cinéma documentaire et en 2010, il est entré à l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech.
Luck Razanajaona is a Madagascan director, screenwriter and producer, a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Marrakech. In 2012, he was invited to the 10th Berlinale Talent Campus and the 5th Durban Talent Campus. He has made short fiction and documentary films, shooting in different countries including Morocco, Reunion Island, Madagascar, Germany …
Hamza Ouni, Tunisian director, was born in 1975 in El Mohammedia, where he still lives today. He began a first cycle of film studies at the Maghreb Institute of Cinema, and then continued his training at the School of Arts and Cinema in Tunis, where he specialized in writing and filmmaking. El Gort, his first …
Hamedine Kane, Senegalese and Mauritanian artist and director, lives and works between Brussels and Dakar. After ten years of exile in Europe, her practice now focuses on themes of memory and heritage. This aspect of his work takes shape with the research project “École des Mutants”. His film La Maison bleue, presented in world premiere …
Né au Burkina-Faso en 1987, Moumouni Sanou, après des études de cinéma, a travaillé notamment comme monteur et cadreur dans plus d’une dizaine de productions africaines. Passionné de documentaire, il réalise en 2010 son premier film Dji-Ko au Burkina-Faso, puis entre 2012 et 2014, trois autres documentaires : Youplex, Sini, l’avenir et N’gooni Fo Sékouba …
Kiswendsida Parfait Kaboré known as “Galadio” was born in 1984 in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. After his baccalaureate, he studied law, while regularly visiting film sets. Spotted by director Guy Désiré Yaméogo, he joined the team of his feature film Danse Sacrée à Yaka in 2007. After a master’s degree in international public law, Kiswendsida …
Born in Morocco, Ali Essafi pursued a documentary filmmaking career after studying psychology in France. His works as a director include “General, Here We Are”, “The Silence of the Beet Fields”, “Ouarzazate Movie” and “Shikhat’s Blues” which have been widely screened in international film circuits. After returning to Morocco, he embarked on a lengthy research …
Mostafa Derkaoui was born in 1944 in Oujda (Morocco). A philosophy student in Casablanca in the early 1960s, passionate about theatre, he was banned for political reasons from one of his first plays in the midst of a period of repression against the far left and the opposition under Hassan II. He then left for …
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy (1939-2018) was born Atteyat Awad Mahmoud Khalil into a family of labourers in a small village along the Nile Delta. A child of Nasserism, she studied law at the University of Cairo while supporting herself financially by working as an actress and assistant director at the theatre. At the beginning of the 1970s, …