Kamal Lazraq was born in Casablanca in 1984. In 2011, he graduated in directing from the Femis in Paris with his short film Drari, with which he won the Second Prize of the Cinéfondation in Cannes and the Grand Prix at the Festival Entrevues in Belfort. In 2013, he made another short film, The Man with a Dog, and received many awards at international festivals. Hounds (Noir Casablanca) is his first feature film, which had its world premiere at Cannes in 2023.