Alaa Ashkar is a Palestinian filmmaker who lives between Galilee and Gironde. He is fluent in French, Arabic and Hebrew. After studying law in Netanya, Israel, he finished a Master's degree in Political Science in France in 2006 which led him to work in the field of international solidarity around the Mediterranean (Egypt, Italy, Israel/Palestine). In 2017 he became interested in independent cinema to express his views on human relations and directed "You reap what you sow", a film that deals with the issue of the memory of Palestinians in Israel. The film won the award for best documentary film at the Lucania festival in Italy.