Lula Ali Ismail

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.