Malaysian director, writer and scriptwriter, Amanda Nell Eu hits hard with her first feature film, Tiger Stripes, which won the Grand Prix during Critics' Week at the Cannes Festival in 2023. Close to horror and the supernatural, but also to popular traditions, she has drawn from the sphere of body...

N'Goné Fall, the General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, wished to place this ambitious project under the banner of pan-Africanism and collective intelligence.

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba breathe new life into the world of contemporary art: based in Berlin, they design exhibitions and founded the magazine Contemporary And, a demanding print and digital publication whose aim is to “connect cultures”.

The cinema of Tunisian film director Kaouther Ben Hania is characterised by its authenticity. Straddling the line between fiction and documentary, her creations take a scathing look at our societies, without ever losing their touch of irony.

Aïcha Macky is a documentary filmmaker. With two shorts and two feature films to her credit, this young Nigerian filmmaker distils a committed body of work, advocating in particular for the emancipation of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has been recognised by international critics.

The brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser use cinema to denounce the violence in Palestine, their native country. Their latest project, Gaza mon amour, explores the region's remaining treasures with humour.

A film-maker known worldwide for his work on Cambodia, Rithy Panh is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge work camps who found refuge in cinema. Through his works of fiction, his documentaries, and his books, he endeavours to pass on the history of his home country.

Former director of the Forum des Images and Arte France Cinéma, Michel Reilhac now devotes himself to transmedia writing and immersive experiences. Director of several virtual reality films, he is currently curator of the VR Expanded section of the Venice Biennale. 

For the past 15 years, Antoine Cayrol, producer and cofounder of Atlas V, produces virtual reality content that has won awards at the major festivals. The content features: Spheres (2018), Ayahuasca (Kosmik Journey) (2019) or Gloomy Eyes (2020). 

Damien Odoul is a filmmaker and cross-disciplinary artist. He depicts the dark side of humanity through the arts, all while claiming its eccentricity. He is lively and sensitive, refusing norms in order to put the public’s habits to the test. Damien Odoul has built a discreet but unusual career.

The Théodora Barat artist manipulates light to create landscape-works in the form of films or installations. Her latest project, Micromégas, looks at the electricity infrastructures of Hong Kong.

A director and sometimes actress, Danielle Arbid boasts a certain freedom with her camera. Her latest film, Passion Simple (Simple Passion), saw the Franco-Lebanese woman selected for the official competition at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. This year she is a patron of the Fabrique Cinéma de l...

Director Hassen Ferhani describes himself as a multi-faceted artist sensitive to the brutality and poetry of Algerian society, its history and its hopes. A passionate film maker who has won numerous international awards, Hassen Farhani wishes to put humanity back in the spotlight. His film 143, rue...

Now widely known thanks to the series Dix pour cent (Call My Agent!), actress Laure Calamy has just won the César Award for Best Actress for her part in Caroline Vignal’s comedy Antoinette dans les Cévennes (My Donkey, My Lover & I).

The writer and director Bassori Timité was born in 1933 in Aboisso in Côte d’Ivoire. He is a great figure in Ivorian film, and a reference for cinephiles. The film-maker is involved in developing creation in Côte d’Ivoire, celebrating the strength of image and stating the importance of technique.