Born in 1979 and named an Artist for Peace in 2012, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette has directed several award-winning feature documentaries, including "Les Petits princes des bidonvilles" (2000), "Si j’avais un chapeau" (2006), "Les Petits Géants" (2009), "Se souvenir des cendres" (2010), which follows the journey of Denis Villeneuve’s film "Incendies", and "Le Plancher des vaches" (2015). She has also directed three fiction features: "Le Ring" (2007), selected at Toronto and Berlin, "Inch’Allah" (2012), presented at Toronto and Berlin, where it received the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize, and "Goddess of the Fireflies", presented at Berlin in 2020. She is also the author of the travel chronicles "Embrasser Yasser Arafat" (2011), the children’s book "Nos héroïnes" (2018), and the novels "Je voudrais qu’on m’efface" (2010) and "La Femme qui fuit" (2016).