Dragon Mothers - Mères Dragon

Mathilde Sauvère is a director and photographer born in Poitiers, France, in 2000. After graduating in photography from the Centre d’Enseignement Professionnel de Vevey (CEPV) in 2023, she is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in cinema at HEAD-Geneva (Haute École d'Art et de Design de Genève).

Her films seek to build sensitive, committed narratives around social themes, including related to family dynamics, childhood and gender-based violence. Since 2020, she has been a member of the “Bâtardes” film collective, a group where she collaborates with other filmmakers to explore common reflections and experiment together with new creative approaches.

Mathilde Sauvère has co-directed several short films with Khalissa Akadi, including the documentary “Mères Dragon”, the drama “Tant qu'il fera nuit” and their second documentary “Entre cães e lobos”. At the same time, she made a short net found footage film entitled “Les Crocos”, based solely on pre-existing images.

Khalissa Akadi is a director born in Switzerland in 2003, of Beninese and Italian origin. In 2020, she began her studies in social sciences, which she stopped to devote herself to cinema in order to enter the HEAD-Geneva (Haute École d'Art et de Design de Genève). In 2023, she began a Bachelor's degree in cinema.
In her films, she explores the political, cultural and social issues that affect her. “Mères Dragon” is the first documentary she directed as part of her studies, followed by the drama “Tant qu’il fera nuit” and her second documentary “Entre cães e lobos”, all three co-directed with Mathilde Sauvère.