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 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. …
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, …
Jean-Marie Teno is a director, editor and producer of Cameroonian cinema, born on May 14, 1954. In 1983, he made his first documentary short entitled Schubbah. In 1996, he shot Clando, a feature film that won the Audience Award at the 6th African Film Festival in Milan, Italy. He has since directed Chef (1999), Le …
Born in 1946 in Sidi Bel Abbès, Brahim Tsaki studied at the drama school in Algiers before continuing his studies in directing in Belgium. In 1980 he signed his first short film, La Boîte dans le désert, one of the future three episodes of Les Enfants du vent, which he directed in 1981, followed by …
António Ole was born in Luanda, Angola in 1951. He studied Afro-American culture and cinema at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). Painter, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker, he has been recognized since 1984 beyond Angolan borders since his firstexhibition at the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles. From 1975, he directed many films, …