
Dania Reymond
Franco-Algerian filmmaker Dania Reymond-Boughenou was born in Algiers in 1982. Her family left Algeria in 1994 during the Black Decade to settle in Marseille. She studied at the École des beaux-arts de Marseille and the École Nationale SupĂ©rieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, then at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, where she received the Studio Collector prize for her film Jeanne. In 2015, her work was sponsored by Mounir Fatmi at the Jeune CrĂ©ation salon. Her medium-length film Le Jardin d’essai, shot in Algiers in 2016, has been shown in several festivals, among them the Angers European First Film Festival, Rencontres du moyen-mĂ©trage de Brive, Cinemed and the Belfort Entrevues Film Festival, and won several awards.
Currently she develops her first feature film The storms, which will be shot in Algiers.