Mathias Monet

French filmmaker and photographer born in Cannes in 1992. In 2017, Mathias Monet left to work for 1 year as a photographer, with "the Talibés" in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. He produced a series of 150 portraits devoted to these street children, exhibited in Dakar and then in Paris, the same year. In 2018, Mathias Monet made a first documentary in partnership with "the European Guild" and the "Vidome" association. Shot in Benin, "Tales of Kokoro" was selected in several festivals in France and abroad before winning the "Golden Tree" for best documentary film at the Sarajevo International Film Festival in 2019. The same year, Mathias Monet left for Chad and worked with the Fulani Central African refugees living in the village of Niergui in the Guéra region. He produced the documentary project "Refugees Photographers" exhibited in December 2020 at the French Institute of N'Djamena in the presence of the French Ambassador to Chad and a representative of the Chadian Ministry of Culture. In 2019, it was produced with the support of "the French Institute, Guéra Touristique and France Volontaires", a second documentary film "Goodbye Bangui", which traces the journey and daily life of the Fulani victims of the third civil war in the CAR. Based in Paris since 2010, Mathias Monet works in sub-Saharan Africa since 2017.