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✴︎ project
Fleuve de Fer
oct. 2026 Kinshasa feature-length fiction film
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because the night
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 of two, leads a life divided between light and shadow. By day, he upholds a facade of respectability for his conservative family, heirs to a distinguished mufti. By night, he…
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After BabelLooking 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 Loire Region Drawing inspiration from the vision of Caribbean poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant, After Babel embarks us into six immersive chapters that weave together a sensory, poetic and political tapestry…
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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 Americas, Colonial Remix proposes the construction of a sound box in which reverberates the history of the colonies and their fantasies, from the first Renaissance conquests…
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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 best friend of the house I grew up in and which I had to leave. An unusual, very uncomfortable Parisian house filled with art objects, particularly medieval.…
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MARY AND JIBRIL
rewriting stage FEATURE NARRATIVE It’s the story of crazy love. Of recognition and rejection. Of a passion thwarted by the political and societal climate. By shame and things left unsaid too. Mary is Parisian, Jibril (يلِِجْبر, the archangel Gabriel in the Koran) is Dakarois. Their story begins in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, off…
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✴︎ video art
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 passport, it takes 9min47s. But for the Sudanese writer in exile Youssif Halliem Kiddo, whom we listen to during this flight, the crossing of the Mediterranean…
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✴︎ Filmography
Visual arts
where the seams Hold Against the fixed narrative, 2026 Where the Seams Hold Against the Fixed Narrative is the result of a collaborative effort by Valérie Osouf and Hamedine Kane Where the Seams Hold Against the Fixed Narrative, 2026 was installed at Bonniers Konsthall as part of a group exhibition The Defeated: The Aesthetics of…
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✴︎ Filmography
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 and 66 years of cinema history, Tigritudes* 1956-2021 draws a subjective and chronological pan-African anthology. Conceived by directors Dyana Gaye and Valérie Osouf, in collaboration…
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✴︎ Filmography
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 documentary about people deported from France because of the Pasqua/Debré immigration laws. In Dakar, after a spell at Philosophy college interrupted by a year-long strike,…
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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 see him. But we see what he can’t see. An old street of Guangzhou soon to be destroyed, a Man, a Dream.
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Abderrahmane Sissako, Beyond Territories
2017 Petit Dragon / Granit films / ARTE / CANAL HORIZONS / TV5 MONDE / CNC / ELEPHANT feature-length documentary To be somewhere precise yet stand nowhere at all, to embody one’s convictions, yet never miss the essential, to rise up and be present at the critical moment, to bear witness to a world waiting…
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Afterwards
2014 short film Granitfilms Awarded at Corto di Donne (Naples) and Zagreb (Women film festival).RCB Bejaïa – AFLAM (Marseille) – Setif – Kaliber35 (Munich) – Ljubljana (Migrant films) A few days before her death, a very old woman tries to remember her past. Alzheimer allows her to reinvent swathes of her existence, the most painful…
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National Identity
2012 Feature documentary Granit films with the support of CNC, Ile de France region, South Region & Pays de Loire Region A FILM ON INSTITUTIONAL RACISM If we fail to consider the plight of foreigners, if we fail to perceive what our laws can result in, we begin to lose sight of how low our…