The Red Sea Film Foundation returns to Cannes for its annual Women in Cinema gala â spotlighting trailblazing talents from the Arab world, Africa, and Asia.
This year, weâre proud to spotlight Marie-ClĂ©mentine Dusabejambo.
Born in Rwanda, Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo's journey as a filmmaker started in 2008, when she joined a group of young filmmakers in her neighborhood in Almond Tree Films. In 2010, she responded to a call-out for a script competition by the Tribeca Film Institute, which she won. This victory enabled her to make her first short film, "LYIZA," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011 and won a Bronze Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival in 2012. Clementine worked as a researcher for "Why We Hate?", a documentary series by Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney. Her short films have been presented and awarded at several festivals, including the Carthage Film Festival, where she won the Tanit de Bronze in 2012 and 2018 in Carthage. Her first feature film, "Ben'Imana", has been officially selected to screen in Cannes 2026 - Un Certain Regard.
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