Lula Ali Ismaïl (born 1978) is a Djibouti-Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is the first woman from Djibouti to produce a film, earning her the nickname of "the first lady of the Djibouti cinema."[1] The directed the twenty-seven minute fiction short Laan (2011).[2] The film was screened at the 2012 Montreal Vues d'Afrique festival, and in 2013 at FESPACO. In 2014 she started working on a feature film, Dhalinyaro,[3] co-written with Alexandra Ramniceanu and Marc Wels.[4] The film, Djibouti's first feature film, premiered in July 2017.[5]