for REAL.

Nora Mandray (she/they) is an artist-filmmaker born in France, educated in the US, and now living in Berlin.

Spanning a conversation on trauma and resilience, their work explores truth-telling as a tool of healing in the age of mass extinction.

Past films have notably screened at the Berlinale, Hot Docs, SXSW, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and the Camden International Film Festival.

Recent credits include feature documentaries “The Process of Recovering” for VICE Studios and the TOPIC Original “Eli: A Dog in Prison”, as well as the award-winning shorts “3 Acres in Detroit” and “Dancing With Le Pen” (EP’d by Oscar-winner Laura Poitras & Oscar-nominee Charlotte Cook for Field of Vision).

As a non-fiction writer, Mandray has notably collaborated with NETFLIX, Disney+ and ARTE.

Mandray speaks French, English, German and Polish. They hold a double-Master's Degree from Sciences Po Paris and UCLA film school, where they studied as a Fulbright scholar.

They just completed a three-month long art residency in Nigeria as part of the 2024 Goethe Institute x 16/16 Berlin-Lagos programme, where they made a series of collaborative projects exploring the more-than-human perspective of water.

This May, Mandray is expanding on this work as one of Villa Lena’s artists-in-residence.

Represented by FILM Talents (Paris).