After studying biology, DOUCOURÉ took her first professional steps as a filmmaker with her short film Maman(s), selected in nearly 200 festivals and winner of more than 60 awards in festivals around the globe, including the International Fiction Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the 2017 César Award for Best Short Film. In 2019, Doucouré was granted the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women. Her first feature (2019) is Cuties (Mignonnes), award winning Special Mention of the Jury (Generation Kplus, at 70t Berlinale, 2020) and Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic (2020 Sundance Film Festival).

She won the Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film at Toronto Film Festival 2015 and the Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction - at Sundance Film Festival 2016, among others, for her second short Maman(s). "For its daring and revelatory exploration of a family's dysfunction and upheaval through the eyes of a child and its refusal to cast characters as villains but rather as complex, and highly conflicted, human beings the jury selects Maman(s). The jury also wanted to acknowledge the vulnerable, defiant performance of the gifted Sokhna Diallo.", remarked the Short Cuts jury at Toronto. The award offers a $10,000 cash prize.

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* www.sundance.org/projects/cuties
* http://media.tiff.net.s3.amazonaws.com/emails/pdf/Festival%20Awards%202015_.pdf
updated on 17/08/2020 by Thierno Dia