As a film editor, I directed a short documentary in 2003 about the war in Iraq, my father's country. My film was selected in Festivals including: Les états généraux du documentaire (Lussas), les escales documentaires (la Rochelle), les écrans du réel (Beirut)...It was screened at the Cinéma des Cinéastes in Paris by "Documentaire sur grand écran" and on the ephemeral site "Arte-Le Louvre" in 2009. In 2012, I was in residence at the Moulin d'Andé for a project that did not see the light of day.I regularly intervene at the Lycée Suger in Saint-Denis with students in the Cinema section.Since 2020 I left Paris in order to devote myself more to documentary. In particular, I wrote a project for the production "Bootstrap Label" in 2021.Since the end of 2021 I am doing regular location scouting for my project "In what world do you live Canetti".

They recently got out of prison. Cyrille Canetti, a psychiatrist, after having practiced there for 25 years. His patients after serving their sentences.Month after month, Cyrille now receives them in the privacy of his new office at the hospital. Broken by incarceration, these men are gradually trying to repair their lives. He is gradually trying to get rid of a prison world that still sticks to him.

Kahina Benakli grew up in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis. She decided to leave Paris to take an ES baccalaureate in the Var. Having always been passionate about theater, she decided to return to her first love and began a three-year actor's training program from which she graduated. It was during this first course that she directed a short documentary on the "Calais Jungle". She then decided to move to Marseille where she worked as an assistant and casting director. In 2021, she was co-author and casting director on the film "Merlich Merlich" and since November 2021, she has been a theater and cinema teacher in three elementary school in Marseille. In June 2022, she wrote and directed her first short fiction film. Directing turned out to be an enriching experience, a revelation for her.

Kahina Benakli, living in Paris, an actress by training, in her thirties, discovers, post confinement, a passion for English boxing. It is while visiting her family in the South of France that she learns that four of her grandfather's brothers were great boxers, champions in the 1950s. She then decides to embark on a quest to revive her sacred great-uncles. A journey between history and memories, between France and Morocco.

Born on June 12, 1985 in Algiers, Leila AOUDJ is a producer and artistic director of film festivals. After a postgraduate degree at EM Strasbourg, and after a stint at FEMIS, Leila AOUDJ joined the team of the international festival "les Rencontres Cinématographiques de Bejaia" and became Artistic Director and Programmer of the Festival for 5 years. She then contributes to various film projects as Producer, Director, editor or Artistic Director.

What does it mean to be a woman artist today? With her camera and her one look, an Algerian photographer explores her place in the art world. How do her photographs convey the way she looks at the world? How can photography be used to immortalize the moment and highlight aspects of society that are often ignored?

Sonia Kichah, author-director studied philosophy and cinema in Paris at the Sorbonne under the direction of Jean-Paul Torok, Claude Sautet's screenwriter. She is currently working on a thesis on the character of "Lilith" in cinema. After having been an assistant director on the documentary "Frantz Fanon". In 2001, she went behind the camera to sign her first short film " Feu Vert " selected in Clermont. She wrote and directed her first documentary "Veiled Identities", 52, on the issue of the veil in France, on Tenk. She wrote and directed " Les oubliés de Cassis " a 71' documentary for Public Sénat and France 3 France Ô, Tenk. " Voyage en Beurgeoisie " 52' for Public Sénat, France Ô. "A caravan in the desert" 80', JCC, FIPA'. " Le Jihad au féminin ", 52' for LCP, " Beaucaire une histoire française, France 3 on the RN in power."

In politically divided Tunisia, between Islamists and progressives, five young women aged 28 to 38 share a modest roommate in a residential building. Having come to work in the country's largest city, far from their families and reproving glances, the path to freedom is marked by hardships. Shunned by the conservatives who consider them as girls of little virtue, they face a rejection fed by tough prejudices. Nevertheless, the small group of women supports and supports each other. They even welcome a new roommate: a white chiwawa, who carefully observes the lives of the house's inhabitants.

French-Italian documentary filmmaker, I studied art history and cello in Bologna and Berlin, then moved to Brussels, where I graduated in filmmaking at INSAS and in "Speculative Narrative" at erg. Since then I work as a director, author, sound designer and video maker. I also make documentary animation films with the illustrator Charline Collette, which we develop during residencies and workshops with audiences of all ages, as well as children's albums.Since 2015, I am an active member of the ARG (Animation Research Group), an international artistic research collective around animation practices, with which I have exhibited at BOZAR and the erg gallery (Brussels), at the Mundaneum (Mons) and at the Khiasma space (Paris). My first feature-length documentary, Domus de Janas, is currently being broadcast.

Sophie had to flee her native Egypt forever in 1956, in the context of the Suez crisis.
 She never forgot it.Woman-rabbi and Arab immigrant, brilliant mathematician and housewife, she will have been crossed by her time while displaying a candid strength that questions me - between the passivity of the victims and the suspension of the wise.In a film-essay in the first person, mixing archival footage, home movies and animated objects of memory, I trace the story of this particular history - that of my grandmother - against the backdrop of the great history and the political and identity-related questions it raises in me today. Between Paris and Cairo, between present and past, the fragmentary portrait of a complex woman emerges...

Paola Di Mitri is a director, writer and performer of documentary theater and documentary film. Her works start from the reuse of historical and family archive materials and deal with social and political issues. Among her theatrical directions Vita Amore Morte and Rivoluzione (2022) presented at the Festival Romaeuropa 2022, Libya. Back Home (2019) which debuts at the Festival delle Colline Torinesi and at the Festival Romaeuropa 2019, Human Animal (2017), Il Paradiso degli idioti (finalist Premio Scenario 2015).In 2021, she signs the direction of her first documentary film Tutti i Nostri Affanni produced by ZaLab Film. The same year she collaborates ,as author, to the documentary film Qui Non c'è niente di Speciale, winner of the XVI Salina Doc Fest and works as author and performer in the film Comunisti, winner of the Zavattini Prize and presented in official selection out of competition. at the 40th Film Festival of Turin.

Il Grande Buco" is a creative documentary that, starting from the personal history of the author, will open to a collective and generational dimension.Intermingling the use of private and historical archive images with images shot in the present time, the film traces a subjective journey within the left-wing social movements in Italy, from the 1960s until today. The hole between the two rooms of the new house where the two authors live, is the point from which all their thoughts are born.The choice to have or not to have a child becomes the pretext to represent the disorientation of a whole generation (that of the thirty-year-olds today) facing the future.

Davide Crudetti is a writer and director of documentary film and documentary theater, member of ZaLab Film production (zalab.org).Among his latest works for cinema Qui Non c'è niente di Speciale (2022) winner of the XVI Salina Doc Fest and Communists (2022), official selection out of competition at the 40th Festival of Turin. His next feature film Il Grande Buco, produced by ZaLab with AAMOD, is one of the projects funded by the selective grants for development and pre-production 2022 of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Back Home (Romaeuropa Festival '19, Festival delle Colline) and Vita Amore Morte e Rivoluzione (Romaeuropa Festival '22).Since 2016 he is also a trainer for documentary and participatory cinema in important public and private institutions.

Il Grande Buco" is a creative documentary that, starting from the personal history of the author, will open to a collective and generational dimension.Intermingling the use of private and historical archive images with images shot in the present time, the film traces a subjective journey within the left-wing social movements in Italy, from the 1960s until today. The hole between the two rooms of the new house where the two authors live, is the point from which all their thoughts are born.The choice to have or not to have a child becomes the pretext to represent the disorientation of a whole generation (that of the thirty-year-olds today) facing the future.

Filmmaker by training, Cyrine launched a career in organizations working on migration. She was able to work on several short films as an assistant, director and producer. Her latest short film as a writer and producer entitled "Kosmos" has been selected and awarded in several festivals including Malmo film festival, Marakech Film Festival and the JCC.

The telephone call, being initially a tender and human act, has been recuperated by the consumer society in call centers whose purpose is to "sell" political opinions, commercial offers, products, hope. This film uses the call center as a writing process and is guided by chance, generosity, and the need to talk. A call center conducts a psychological survey on happiness among Tunisians. The film is the result of the survey

A former journalist at Le Monde, Emma is currently a producer at Al Jazeera. Her first film, Call Him President, about the adventures of the self-proclaimed president of Liberland, was selected in several festivals. She lives in Lebanon where she is developing The Naked Island, which was supported by Addoc Pitch. In parallel, Emma is working on Pinzuta, a project about her family history in Corsica.

In a devastated Lebanon, Munir, Jamil and the other bathers seem indifferent to the crisis. They sunbathe indolently, a chicha at the corner of their mouths on the last public beach of Beirut with the appearance of an island of freedom. All the social classes and religious communities of this small fragmented country meet there. Imams, poets, Hezbollah supporters, alcoholics, singers, intellectuals or Syrian refugees clash their destinies in an odyssey of oiled bodies. A fragile coexistence threatened by the collapse of Lebanon.