Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo is a Rwandan filmmaker who taught herself filmmaking and began working actively in 2008 within a community of young filmmakers in Kigali. After being selected in the Tribeca Film Institute′s screenwriting competition, she directed her first short film, Lyiza (2011), followed by shorts such as A Place for Myself (2016) and Icyasha (2018). Her feature directorial debut, Ben′imana, was invited to the Un Certain Regard section at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where it won both the Caméra d′Or and the FIPRESCI Prize.
