Dieudo Hamadi

Director, Screenwriter,

Republic of Congo

Having made history at the Cannes Film Festival with his film En route pour le milliard( 2020), selected in the Official Selection in 2020, Dieudo Hamadi questions the institutions of his country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. After two notable short films: Dames enattente( 2009) and Tolérance Zéro( 2010), he directed the documentary Atalaku( 2013), winner of the Joris

Producer

Ivens Prize for Best First Film at the Cinéma du Réel Festival; then Examen d’ État( 2014), winner of the FIDADOC Grand Prize at the Agadir Festival. In 2015, he founded his production company, Kiripifilms. In 2017, he directed Maman Colonelle, winner of the Grand Prize at the Cinéma du Réel Festival, and in 2019 received a grant from the McMillan-Stewart Foundation at the Harvard Film Study Center. He is currently working on Milimo, the wandering souls of Kinshasa, a series he produces and directs for Canal +, and on his next feature film entitled Life is a Railway.