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  • Towards the night

    Towards the night working title Nov. 2023 In development Les films du Djabadjah Experimental feature film Shot in Kigali The film begins at dusk. Amdjadi Mugarura, a 34-year-old single father…

  • After Babel
    Looking for Batoutos

    After Babel Looking for Batoutos 2024 feature film, Momento! Co-written with   Patrick Chamoiseau In development with the support of CNC, Ile de France region, South Region & Pays de…

  • Colonial Remix

    Colonial Remix A film andan Immersive Sound and Video Installation In Development (and potentially, a book and an exhibition) Through a rhizome of works of art from Europe, Africa and…

  • THE ECHO

    The echo Film essay Editor : Djamel Kerkar A little over 30 years ago, still a teenager, I borrowed a camera for the first time to archive images with my…

  • MARY AND JIBRIL

    Mary and Jibril FEATURE NARRATIVE rewriting stage It’s the story of crazy love. Of recognition and rejection. Of a passion thwarted by the political and societal climate. By shame and…

  • North

    North 2023 ESSAY FILM STUDIO – LODZ LAB A sequence shot by plane from the African coast to the shores of Europe. When you have the privilege of a Western…

  • Interventions, teaching…

    Interventions 2023 —> 2025 (contrat de 3 ans) Évaluation artistique initiale et conseil en réécriture / développement, Programme CLAP ACP-UE / Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. Festival « Bruits de…

  • Activism

    Textes personnels Les mots sont importants https://lmsi.net/Imaginez-un-pays Lundi matin https://lundi.am/La-rue-ou-rien Terra Nova https://tnova.fr/societe/justice-securite/pour-labrogation-de-la-double-peine/ Afrikaada #8 http://www.afrikadaa.com/2014/11/afrikadaa-issue-n8-image-en-mouvement.html Articles sur des luttes auxquelles je participe https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/05/15/nous-refusons-d-abandonner-les-artistes-soudanais-l-appel-de-plus-de-330-personnalites-du-monde-de-la-culture_6173435_3232.html https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2015/09/11/quand-les-artistes-se-mobilisent-pour-les-refugies_4751255_3246.html ​​https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/toutes-les-rues-sappellent-calais-20210503_KPGBLTQHS5EQ7EVOPXETRZSNUA/ https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/reconcilions-la-television-et-le-documentaire-20210309_I37APX4A7BC2RORH5MUWAE5KEQ/ https://www.liberation.fr/france/2020/11/11/police-partout-images-nulle-part_1805319/ https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2019/06/12/soudan-rompre-le-silence_1733285/ https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2018/02/05/migrants-la-france-et-l-europe-complices_1627540/…

  • Journalism & publications

    Press – Mentions in scientific publications – in commentaries

  • Visual arts

    ✴︎ The school of Mutants — Dialogue from the between worlds The school of Mutants — EN RÉSIDENCE À LA BECQUE La Becque, Artist residency — Switzerland September — November…

  • Programming

    Tigritudes A chronogicalpanafrican film cycle The tiger doesn’t proclaim its tigritude, it pounces on its prey and devours it. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize in Literature Through 126 films, 40 countries…

  • Biography

    After a stormy schooling, Valérie Osouf moved to Senegal for 9 years, where she made her debut film in 1996, No Comment, the country one never reaches, a 16mm celluloid…

  • Xiheng Jie

    Xiheng Jie 2022 Short film ShanShan films & Berlin Biennale #12 Short film shot in Guangzhou (China), ShanShan films & Berlin Biennale #12.  Mister Cheng can’t see us so we won’t…

  • Abderrahmane Sissako, Beyond Territories

    Abderrahmane Sissako, Beyond Territories 2017 feature-length documentary Petit Dragon / Granit films / ARTE / CANAL HORIZONS / TV5 MONDE / CNC / ELEPHANT To be somewhere precise yet stand…