Leïla Kilani

Leila Kilani has always dreamed of being a clown. She is passionate about different forms of narrative and storytelling. She makes hybrid documentaries, feature films, cinematographic and experimental films, and writes television series.

Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including Cannes, Locarno, Rotterdam, Venice and San Sebastian. Her films have received excellent critical acclaim.

She has been making films since 2001, including Tanger, le rêve des brûleurs (Grand Prix documentary at Fespaco, Tanit d'or at Carthage...) and Nos lieux interdits, which explores the memory of political violence in Morocco, Sur la Planche, which was screened at the Cannes Festival and at some 70 other festivals, winning numerous awards and critical acclaim. Her latest drama Indivision had its world premiere at the Rotterdam Festival. Critically acclaimed, it has been selected for some thirty festivals.

She is the founder of Jardin des Coïncidences, a cross-disciplinary collective that brings together artists, lawyers, researchers, designers, engineers and citizens around a shared ambition: to prototype the future. At the crossroads of art, law and critical thinking, the collective designs exploratory projects combining investigation, fiction and collective creation. One of its flagship projects is Les Procès 2080, an exercise in legal and political anticipation that imagines today's responsibilities in the light of tomorrow's world.