Manele Labidi

Manele Labidi is a French-Tunisian writer/ director. She studied politics and economics and worked in finance for a few years before deciding to become a filmmaker. She has been involved in different writing and directing projects for the theater, radio and for TV series. Her first short film, A Room of my Own, is a tragicomic variation on Virginia Woolf’s essay. In 2016, she took part in a screenwriting program at La Fémis in Paris. Arab Blues (2019), her first feature film, won the Audience Award in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori section.

Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid