Wiame Haddad (1987) graduated from ESAD in Valenciennes, and from La Cambre in Brussels. The artist’s work can be considered as a photographic and cinematographic research project which investigates ethical issues and experiments with formal approaches. This research is coupled with a yearning for the unseen. Focusing on the forgotten bodies of History, her work …
Rayane Mcirdi was born in Paris and grew up between Asnières-sur-Seine and Gennevilliers, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Angers. His work, midway between fiction and documentary, is based on stories, memories and anecdotes collected from his relatives, which …
Luc Decaster grew up in Saint-Nazaire, the “French ship-building capital”. During his teenage years while he was preparing for his Industrial Boilermaker’s Certificate, he was marked by fierce strikes, the confrontations between laborers from the Atlantic shipyards and the riot police. Having become an industrial draftsman with Chausson in the Paris region, he discovered the …
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 …
Born in 1972 in Paris, France, Alain Gomis studied art history and film. After making videos and short films, his first feature film L’Afrance (2002) won the Silver Leopard at Locarno. His last film Félicité was shown at the Competition section of the 2017 Berlinale.
Born in Madrid in 1981, Jonás Trueba is the author of the feature films Todas las canciones hablan de mí (2010), Los ilusos (2013), Los exiliados románticos (2015) and La reconquista (2016). The fifth, The August Virgin, was distributed in France in 2020.
Laurie Lassalle lived a nomadic childhood between France and Nigeria. In 2014, she directed her first medium-length fiction film, I Made My Own Course Down The Passive Rivers, selected at the Critic’s Week in Cannes. She directed I Am Gong (Association 1000Visages) with young inhabitants of the inner city La Grande Borne (Jury Prize and …
Born in 1986 in Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire, Joël Akafou graduated from the Master’s in Cinema Directing at the Ouagadougou Institut Supérieur de l’Image et du Son, Burkina Faso. He has made several short school films, both documentary and fiction, including Nourah, selected for several festivals in Africa. Vivre Riche is his first professional documentary film. …