Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director and producer. She started out as a journalist and then a documentary maker: in those years she was the founder of the webzine Inkyfada and became a member of the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists). Her first feature-length documentary, Railway Men, won a prize at Visions du réel and was selected for the IDFA in 2018. She subsequently founded her own production company, with which she produced, wrote and made her debut feature film, Under the Fig Trees, in 2022, which won a prize at Final Cut in Venice 2021 as a work-in-progress and then had its world premiere at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes 2022 and has been screened at many international festivals.