2017

Artistic Director

Samaher al Qadi is an emerging voice in Arabic documentary filmmaking. She studied at the High Cinema Institute, and at the Academy of Art and Technology of Cinema, both in Cairo. Her work focuses on women and dissident artists in the Middle East. She has directed three films, between Palestine, Egypt and France: MOHAMMED BAKRI (2008), GAMALAT (2009), and RAJ3EEN (2012). Her current project, AS I WANT, is a personal exploration of what it means to be a woman in the Middle East; interwoven with inspiring stories of women striving to break taboos and gain their rights.

Anne Luthaud is the Executive Director and General Delegate of Le Grec [Group of Research and Experimentation in Cinematography] since 2011. She was the Director of Studies at La Fémis [the French State film school under the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and Communication] until 1992. She then worked as a publisher and edited the review “cinemas croisés.” Anne is also an author who wrote several novels, the last of which was CALYPSO (published in 2018).