She made short documentaries as a teenager at a Dunkirk video studio, and later studied film direction at INSAS in Brussels, graduating in 2004. Her short drama The Ylang Ylang Residence (2008) was shot in the Comoros Islands, and in the Comorian language. The film was screened at over 35 international festivals,[3] including the International Critics Week at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.[4] It won awards at the 2009 Quintessenve International Film Festival of Ouidah, the 2009 Francophone Festival of Vaulx-en-Velin, and the 2009 African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan.[3]