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 …
After studying theater and participating in the creation of the first black troupe in Paris, “the Griots”, Sarah Maldoror, of Guadeloupe origin, left to study cinema in Moscow. Her first productions took her to Africa, where she shot anti-colonialist films, very representative of committed cinema in the 1970s. She obtained in 1969, with Monagambée, shot …
The paintings, films, and writings of Israeli artist Roee Rosen (born 1963 in Rehovot, Israel) have become known for their historical and theological consciousness, novelistic imagination, and psychological ambition. His work addresses the representation of history, the political economy of memory, and the politics of identity, often exploring the tension between trauma, horror, humor, and …
Safi Faye is a Senegalese anthropologist and director. She was studying in Senegal when Jean Rouch offered her a role in Petit à petit in 1971. After continuing her studies in France, she became the first African woman to direct films. First the short film La Passante, then the feature film Lettre paysanne in 1975, …
Dalila Ennadre is a Moroccan director renowned for her documentaries on Moroccan daily life. Morocco constitutes its privileged ground. She mainly films women there, among others in El Batalett, women of the Medina (2000) and Je voudrais vous raconter (2005). She directed around ten documentaries between 1987 and 2019. Dalila Ennadre died on May 14, …