After studying journalism in Tunisia and then film studies at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco, Rama Mari worked as a 1st assistant, cinematographer and editor before directing several short films, including her latest, Izriqaq, which was selected in many festivals and won the Jury Prize at the Arab Short Film Festival in Beirut. At the same time, she teaches cinema at Dar Al Kalima University College of Arts and Culture and at the A.M. Qattan Foundation. She is preparing her first feature film, Geography of solitude.