Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou at IU

Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou (Villa Albertine)

For the past decade, Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou has been a film festival programmer (Critics' Week, Marrakech International Film Festival, Villa Medici Film Festival, Fespaco, Doxa) and a curator for various exhibitions, including Un.e air.e de famille (2021); Tofodji, in the footsteps of our ancestors (2022); and Afrotropes - des imaginaires de l'Atlantique noir (2024). In 2023, she was made a Knight of the Order of Merit in Arts, Letters, and Communication by the government of Burkina Faso.

She is currently a Harvard visiting scholar and Harvard Film Study Center associated fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year.