From: Paris

To: Tunis

Aim of the travel: prepare a project

Moufida graduated from the École Européenne Supérieure d'Art de Bretagne. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University and theater at the University of Caen before moving to Paris to be trained in film directing. She traveled from Paris to Tunis in 2012; during the workshops, the "wag-dreams" from April 13th to 15th in Sfax and on the 12th and 13th May 2012 in Tunis, she did some location scoutings and pictures of the Medina in order to prepare the planned route for the performance, while working on the ground with the residents.

She keeps on working with the Arab world. 
Her works were shown in many Centers of Contemporary art, in Europe and in the Arab world.In parallel, she teaches the visual arts and collaborates as a curator on several exhibitions projects. Then she integrates the experimental Group of sound and realizes experimental films, selected in several festivals.Moufida has co-writing the medium-length film of fiction “Li-La” and develops her next film “Paradise” between Paris and Tunis.

From: Algiers, Algeria

To: Durban, South Africa

Aim of the travel: take part in a festival/prepare a project

Mohamed  is an Algerian film director who traveled to Durban, South Africa, from Algiers. He stayed in Durban for 6 days, from 17 – 24 July 2013, and participated to the Filmmart (Film Market at the Durban International Film Festival): in 2012 he already took part to the festival, presenting his documentary project “Searching for Janitou”. Therefore, he was looking for funds to produce the film. When he got back from South Africa, he received several invitations, contacts and collaboration proposals for his projects. He fully believed that cultural mobility has been essential in shaping his artistic personality.

From: Ramallah, Palestine

To: Bruxelles, Belgium

Aim of the travel: prepare a danse project

Yazan is a Palestinian 22 year old dancer who traveled from Ramallah to Brussels for three months to participate in the project " Badke " : The title derives from a the deliberate mis-spelling of " dabke " , the name of the folk dance Palestinian . The piece was created by three well-known famous artists ( Koen Augustijnen , Rosalba Torres Guerero and Hildegard De Vuyst ) in collaboration with 10 Palestinian dancers from mixed backgrounds : their experience is shaped by the dabke , contemporary dance, hiphop, capoeira and / or circe . Yazan emphasized the strong impact that this project will have on the Palestinian and Arab public opinion : it follows from the folk dance of the region and after it decomposes, so that the audience feel involved and integrated into the performance. He told us his desire to teach what he have learned during this experience to his young students and believes that this work will be extremely beneficial for the festival he organizes in Palestine, Ramallah Dance Festival, also enlarging the circle of partners and contacts .