Samy Sidali, a filmmaker based between France and Morocco, was born in 1989 in Hauts de Seine to Moroccan parents. At 18, he moved to London to explore filmmaking, first as a self-taught student, then at the University of the Arts London, from which he graduated in 2013. After several years traveling as a director of institutional documentaries, he shot his first produced short film, JMAR, in Morocco in March 2020, with the help of the CNC and France 2 (Mabel Films production). After numerous festival selections, JMAR was included in the César 2023 selection in the Best Fiction Short category.

In June 2021, he shot his second short fiction film, A.O.C, produced by Mabel Films, which won the Audience Prize and the Young Jury Prize at its French premiere at CINEMED in October 2022, and will soon be broadcast on OCS. In 2022 he directed his first short documentary, PETIT TAXI, which premiered at IDFA in November 2022.

In 2023, these three films were screened together as part of invitations to the Cinémathèque Française and the Cinémathèque de Tanger.

He is currently writing a fiction series, and his first feature film, again with Mabel Films, which he hopes to shoot in Morocco in early 2025.