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Having left the academic system at fifteen to forge my own path, my work is a continuation of that rebellion. I aim to abolish hierarchies, treating the sacred and the mundane as equals. It is not about rejecting systems from the outside, but inhabiting them to playfully hijack them. My goal is to flatten the distance between moral opposites. Nothing is too sacred to be touched by life, and my films ask one central question: what happens when we stop being respectful and start being alive?
Country: France
T-Port Partner: AG Kurzfilm
Marion Desmaret is a French filmmaker and writer based between Berlin and East Africa. After fifteen years of international reporting and documentary work, she is currently expanding her practice into hybrid filmmaking and fiction. She began her career in Paris with the European network ARTE before relocating to Berlin. Over the course of her career, she has interviewed figures such as Al Gore, Depeche Mode, and Michèle Lamy. From working with big production teams to being a one-woman crew, Marion adapts herself to the circumstances, balancing between personal works and tv projects. In 2022 in Uganda, she made a documentary about the Nyege Nyege Festival, the biggest festival for alternative music in East Africa and currently collaborates with their Kampala-based collective and record label to promote the Pan-African music and arts scene. Her self-produced experimental hybrid short Forget the Director, This Is Emmy's Cut! will have its World Premiere at the 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). She has several fiction and documentary projects in development.
Forget The Director, This is Emmy’s Cut! is an experimental short about VJ Emmy, Uganda’s...
