Amie Barouh was born in Tokyo in 1993. She moved to Paris in 2011, where she studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. It was also in the French capital that she first met a Roma, or gypsy - and she soon began learning Romani and Romanian. One day, a friend of hers gave her a camera and asked her to film a wedding, and she's stuck with it ever since. She makes films, between documentaries and visual essays, whose starting point is often inspired by her life experiences. I Can Change, But Not 100% (2019) is Amie's first film. The film has been received in several festivals, at Visions du réel FF in Switzerland, Filmadrid IFF and Si Cinéma IFF and received the Pompidou center prize in 2020. Her film Lost Dog (2021), selected at Villa Medici FF and her latest work Shurruk (2024), was selected at the Flash Competition from FID Marseille.

Photo: Marianne Maric