Entering the history of the Festival de Cannes with his film Downstream to Kinshasa (2020) in the Official Selection 2020, Dieudo Hamadi questions the institutions of his country, the DRC. After two acclaimed short films, Ladies in Waiting (2009) and Tolérance zéro (2010), he directed a documentary, Atalaku (2013), winner of the Joris Ivens Award for Best First Film at the Festival Cinéma du Réel; then National Diploma (2014), Grand Prix FIDADOC at the Festival of Agadir. In 2015, he founded his production company, Kiripifilms. In 2017, he directed Mama Colonel, Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel, and in 2019 received a grant from the McMillan-Stewart Foundation of Harvard’s Film Study Center. He is currently working on a series Milimo, les âmes errantes de Kinshasa which he is producing and directing for Canal +, and on his next feature film La Vie est un chemin de fer.
Jury attendance
- Member Feature films, 2025
