Dounia Bovet-Wolteche was born in Algeria in 1980. Having arrived in France in 1994, she then studied filmmaking at the Belgian film and drama school INSAS. She currently lives in Brittany with her three children. In 2000, she made the short “Tant qu'on est là”. Her medium-length film “Les Racines du Brouillard” was presented at the FID Marseille and the États Généraux du film documentaire de Lussas in 2009. In 2019, she directed “Les Herbes Folles/Wild Grasses”, which won the Moulin d'Andé - CECI Perspective Award at the Écrans Documentaires festival in Arcueil.