Amina Weira

Amina Weira is a Nigerien film director. She is a native of the city of Arlit where she spent her primary and secondary education. She holds a degree in video editing from the Institute for training in information and communication techniques in Niamey and a master's degree in creative documentary filmmaking from the Uni- versité Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal.



Documentary film has become her tool of ex-pression, a way of expressing her ideas. It is also through this art that Amina makes people discover and know her culture, her values, her realities beyond the borders. Through docu-mentaries, Amina exposes, with a certain beauty, the realities of her society in the hope of marvelling, raising awareness or even finding solutions to certain problems that afflict them.



The young director signed her first film in 2011 and has to her credit four other medium-length movies. But it is her denunciatory documentary ''La colère dans le vent'' (Anger in the Wind) produced by Vrai-Vrai Films and released in 2016, which gave her international notoriety. This film, about the radioactive disasters of uranium processing, has already received a dozen international awards.