Film

Director

Dania Reymond-Boughenou

Dania Reymond-Boughenou is a Franco-Algerian filmmaker. She was born in Algiers in 1982. Her family left the country in 1994 during the Black Decade to settle in Marseille. There, she began her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts and continued at Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Her medium-length feature, Le jardin d'essai, shot in Algiers in 2016, was shown at several festivals including Angers, Brive, Cinemed, and Belfort, and won several awards. In 2022, her short film Constellation de la Rouguière was selected for the national competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Short. Her debut feature, Silent Storms, world premiered in 2024 at FIFIB and was selected for the Official Competition at the Marrakech International Film Festival.