Master in Architecture UNI. Master in film production INSAS, Studied directing actors with Ron Burrus Stella Adler studio in Los Angeles. She has been teaching : film production and directing actors in Escuela de los Baños, Cuba, Lausanne (ECAL) at the INSAS and IAD in Brussels. She has directed 4 feature films and ten documentaries shown in selected festivals. The 56th Festival dei Popoli organised a retrospective of her work in 2015. Her last film By the name of Tania was shown at the Berlinale 2019 and got several awards.
“When I speak, I recognise clearly that there is speech only because what “is” has disappeared in what names it. . . the nostalgia of language turns towards what it is always missing, by the necessity where it is to be the lack to say it.”Maurice Blanchot
FUGA (2023), co-directed with Bénédicte Liénard
THEY CALL IT THE BURNING / On l’appelle la brûlure (2022), co-directed with Bénédicte Liénard
WORKS
FUGA – Feature Film (Fiction) – 2023
Co-directed with Bénédicte Lienard
Not yet released
They call it the Burning 2022
In collaboration with Bénédicte Liénard
By the name of Tania – LM Hybride 2019
In collaboration with Bénédicte Liénard
Official Selections
Berlinale – 2019
Documenta-Madrid
Grand Prize Raindance Film Festival London – Jury Prize Fidadoc
Grand Prize Melgaço FF (Portugal) – Prix du Jury Namur FIFF – Prix de la Photo Namur FIFF
Sortir du Noir – Atlas of Transitions II
Co-directed with Bénédicte Liénard
European Project with Noma Omran
2017-2019
Sortir du Noir – I
First part in the framework of ‘Atlas of Transitions’,
Co-directed with Bénédicte Liénard
European Project – Théâtre de Liège.
2014-2015
Le Chant des Hommes – Feature Film (Fiction)
Co-directed with Bénédicte Liénard
PRIX SACD
56th Festival dei Popoli – Full Retrospective of documentary films (2015)
2014
Face deal – Documentary
Official Selections
Visions du Réel Nyon
Courtisane – Gent
Filmer à tout prix – PRIX DU CBA
2013
Sobre las brasas – Documentary
Co-directed with Bénédicte Liénard
Brouillon d’un rêve de la SCAM
Prix Quadrature du cercle – Filmer à tout prix
Festival Filmer le travail – Poitiers – Grand Prix
Official Selection Helsinki Film Festival
Jury Prize FIDOC – Chili
Jury Prize Taiwan IFD
2012
Héros sans visage – Documentary
Official Selection Visions du Réel Nyon
2009
Le Dictionnaire selon Marcus – Documentary
Official Selection Cinéma du Réel 2008
2006
La position du lion couché – Documentary
Official Selection Rome Film Festival
Prix de l’interculturalité festival
Filmer à tout prix – Bruxelles 2006
1982-2000
Loco Lucho – Documentary
Prix du Jury Festival de Taiwan IFD
L’Air de Rien- Feature Film (Fiction)
Best Directing Award, Festival de Barcelona
Du verbe Aimer – Documentary
Berlinale – Forum
La Moitié de l’Amour – Feature Film (Fiction)
21:12 Piano Bar – Feature Film (Fiction)
Prix de la Confédération du Cinéma d’Art et d’Essai