# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lula-ali-ismail
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:05:14.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lula-ali-ismail"
name: "Lula Ali Ismail"
slug: "lula-ali-ismail"
description: "Lula Ali Ismaïl is a Djibouti-Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is the first woman from Djibouti to produce a film, earning her the nickname of the \"first lady of Djibouti cinema.\" Her first film, a fiction short titled Laan (2011) was screened at the 2012 Vues d'Afrique festival in Montreal, and at FESPACO in 2013. Her second film and first feature, Dhalinyaro, was co-written with Alexandra Ramniceanu and Marc Wels and released in 2017. A co-production between Djibouti, France, Canada and Somalia, and entirely filmed in Djibouti, it is the country's first feature film."
tagline: "Djibouti-Canadian filmmaker (* 1978)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7yhLAtuDlnhVjOH1GlI6xZFhdUc.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.57
  momentum:             1.666666666666667
  historical:           12.07293066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9036250/"
    handle:    "nm9036250"
sources:
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    title: "Lula Ali Ismaïl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lula Ali Ismaïl"
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    title: "Lula Ali Ismail"
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    title: "Լուլա Ալի Իսմայիլ"
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    title: "Lula Ali Ismaïl"
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    title: "ലുല അലി ഇസ്മായിൽ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Lula Ali Ismaïl"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump