Valentin Noujaïm (born in 1991, Franco-Lebanese) graduated from the Screenwriting Department of La Fémis in Paris and was a guest student at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. Noujaïm’s work focuses on three axes: improvised lives, compressed lives, and extinguished lives. He creates marginal and strange characters in fantasized universes while relying on format research, blending 16mm film, archives, digital, and special effects. His films have been selected for festivals such as CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), DocLisboa, BAFICI, DokuFest, BlackStar Film Festival, and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. Additionally, his work has been featured in several group exhibitions: Triennale de Nîmes (2024), Museo Madre (2024), Magasins Généraux (2023), CNAC Magasin (2022), Salon de Montrouge (2022), Galerie Air de Paris (2022), Galerie Exo Exo (2022), Saatchi Gallery (2021), among others. His works are found in the collections of CNAP, FRAC Bretagne, and Lafayette Anticipations. Valentin Noujaïm will have his first institutional solo show in 2025 and is currently working on his first feature.