Alicia Mendy is a young Swiss director born in Lausanne in 2000 to a Senegalese father and an Italian mother. Graduating from HEAD – Genève, Haute école d'art et de design, she is interested in a cinema that represents and valorizes African and Afro-descendant peoples through the fantasy and science-fiction genres. Spirituality is central to her work, which explores utopias and dystopias. She also composes film music.