Franco-Algerian director Leila Chaïbi was born in 1982 in Créteil. After studying cinema, she began her career as an Images reporter within the France Télévision group. A great traveler, she worked as a freelance cameraman, mainly for television, first in France, then in the Indian Ocean and the Maghreb. In 2009, she self-produced and directed her first feature-length documentary La Brûlure (2009), whose theme, dear to her own story, is immigration. In 2016, she co-directed Le Verrou with Hélène Poté, then in 2021, she directed the documentary Gardien des mondes.