Young Tunisian filmmaker with a passion for art since she was very young. She left Tunisia in 2005 to pursue higher studies in cinema in Paris. She is finishing a doctoral thesis at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on the issue of identity in Tunisian cinema. At the same time, she directed the short film Nice people and the documentary Techniques of Oriental Massage.Following her participation in Meditalents in 2012, she directed her first professional short film La Brouette which she developed there, a prequel to her feature film project Lina. The film was selected and awarded in several festivals.Since then, she has worked as a script and assistant on films in Tunisia, Morocco, France and Hong Kong. She lived in Hong Kong where she worked as a scriptwriter and script in the film A Typhoon Is Coming by Emilie Guillot. She is currently preparing her new short film.

Living in poverty and the early head of a family, Amine, an 8-year-old, does everything he can to give his father a gift before he dies. It is a drama that blends the cruelty of fate with the poignant innocence of childhood.

Native of Algeria (Médéa, 1978), influenced by his cinephile mother, he begins after his studies a training as a director on the internet at Cinecours.com. In September 2010, he participates in the screenwriting competition organized by Thala Films Production as part of the project Alger Demain, les films. He wrote Un jour à Alger which will be selected at the Festival Cinemed in Montpellier (2011).he then joined Meditalents to develop his feature film project Un meurtre à la Une, as well as his short film Cet homme, qui est-il? After Meditalents, he directed and produced the documentary Al Arbun for the CNRPAH. Then he joined the Quebec collective "El Djazair mon amour" and produced a series of short films in co-production with Kinomada which allowed him to direct his second short film Cet homme, qui est-il? developed at Meditalents, as part of the Kinomada Quebec 2014 short film creation laboratory. He teaches audiovisual techniques since 2015 at the Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH).

Said is a journalist and fetish columnist of an Algerian newspaper, miraculously escaped from a terrorist attack.Refuge in a small studio where initially his stay was not to exceed 5 days, the time that his director and best friend, Farid, makes him the visa with his family for France. But given his problems with the justice system (censorship), his stay is extended.Said only communicates with the outside world through two means, his fax phone with which he sends his columns to his newspaper, and a delivery man, Kamel, whom he never meets.One day for the first time in more than 40 days, he receives a phone call; the calls are repeated... He has been found... Said decides to stop hiding and goes out ....

Born in 1976 in Jijel, Karim Moussaoui lives in Algiers, where he is a programmer at the French Institute. He is one of the founding members of Chrysalide, an Algerian cultural association created in 2000 that helps promote cinema. After attending the shooting of Viva l'Algérie, by Nadir Moknech, he directed his first self-produced short film in 2006: Ce qu'on doit faire (What we have to do), inspired this time by Charles Bukowsky's short story: Lune froide. In 2008, he was first assistant director of Inland, by Tariq Teguia, and in 2011, his feature film script, Waiting for the Swallows, was selected for the Meditalents writing workshop. There he met Virginie Legeay, with whom he wrote the medium-length film Les jours d'avant, a prequel to En attendant les hirondelles.Since then, he has continued the development of En attendant les hirondelles at Sud Ecriture and then at the Cinefondation. The film was produced by Les Films Pelléas (David Thion and Philippe Martin) and selected at Un certain regard, Cannes 2017.

In a city in southern Algiers, in the mid-1990s. Djaber and Yamina are neighbors but do not know each other. For both of them, it is so difficult to meet between girls and boys that they have almost stopped dreaming about it. In a few days, however, what was until then only a muted and distant violence erupts before them, changing their destinies forever.

After studying Political and Social Communication, Political Science and Cultural Mediation, Ilham Halib is a Communication Consultant. She works to "create and tell stories that touch for her partners."

Dialogue between multiple cultures that find themselves in conversation over time and across generations.

Graduated from ESAV in 2009 with his short film Certains pieds ne peuvent pas danser (Some feet can't dance), Hicham Elladdaqi edited several fiction, documentary and reportage films before joining Meditalents.He concomitantly developed his feature film project Le cri (The Cry), as well as his short film La troisième main (The Third Hand), a prequel to Le Cri.

Adil is a lonely young van driver, spends his time delivering orders to people, resists against a serious illness, and tries to confess his love to Zineb, a young worker in a carpet factory.One day, he decides to give up everything, and leaves the city to live the rest of his life by a lake.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Alaa studied cinema at ESAV Marrakech and then joined INSAS in Brussels for a master's degree in directing, production and screenwriting. During this course, he directed several short fiction and/or documentary films, including The House of Rumors (2008), National Education (2009), A Last Tribute (2011). He joined Meditalents 2012 to develop his short film Les poissons du déserts which participated in several festivals around the world and won the Grand Prize, the Critics' Prize and the Screenplay Prize at the National Film Festival. Since then, his first feature film script The Miracle of the Holy Unknown has been awarded at the 68th Locarno Film Festival, selected at the Fabrique des cinémas du monde in Cannes and at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.In December 2016, Alaa was named one of the five Arab Stars of Tomorrow by Screen International Magazine, the ceremony was held at the Dubai Film Festival. In 2017, he was selected as one of the Global Media Makers by Film Independent in Los Angeles program which he could not attend in the end.Between 2012 and 2017, he produced several documentaries and dramas and worked as a line producer on several international projects including recently The Stand in by Ra Di Martino with Valeria Golino and Filippo Timmi which had its premiere at the 2018 Venice Film Festival

An eight-year-old boy moves to the edge of the desert with his parents.The latter only dreams of the sea and becoming a fisherman like his uncle. At the death of his mother he decides to leave to realize his dream.

Graduated from the Institute Specialized in Cinema and Audiovisual (ISCA), he then obtained a bachelor's degree and then a master's degree in film studies (valedictorian of his class) at the University AbdelMalek Essaadi in Tetouan. During his career, he directed several short films awarded in several national festivals: Good Morning Honey, special mention in 2011 at the Rabat Short Film Festival, Profession Reporter, jury award at the Rabat Short Film Festival, 2012, Madani, first prize at the festival ciné-jeune talents de Tanger in 2009. His documentary film Terminus (70'min) is selected in 2015 at the International Documentary Festival of Agadir (Fidadoc), before being screened at the Rencontres Cinématographiques Maghreb des Films in Paris in November 2016.At the end of 2015, he created BINGO FILMS with the aim of devoting himself to film creation and the accompaniment of young talent: he then produced the short film Occupation directed by Nasser Benabderahman, then his own medium-length fiction film Sweeter Than Honey, currently in post-production.

Rachid Chifouni, nicknamed Ammi Lhaj is a cynical old man who hates people. One day, he must return in spite of himself to the city where he lived long before. He will have to join three young friends in a quest for treasure. By living their paradoxes, their joys and misfortunes, AMMI LHAJ will metamorphose and gradually lose his hatred of others.