M.I.A.O

Allia Louiza Belamri was born in Bejaia, Algeria in 1984. Trained as a lawyer, she moved to Algiers and worked as a freelancer in the audiovisual industry. At the same time, a committed visual artist, she has the chance to exhibit her works in various galleries.
Selected to participate in several residencies in collaboration with large NGOs (UN CISP...) and with her experience in the audiovisual sector, she began by producing in 2017, a video loop entitled "Yes for lipstick", presented at the “UN woman“, in which we understand that it is the woman who makes her choices and no one else.
She is particularly interested in the beauty of the human being, which she seeks to sublimate. She made her first documentary film in 2017 "Unique.dz" on people coming out of the social mold imposed in Algeria, thus wanting to break the clichés and show another look at her country.
In the process, she directed a very short experimental film "Lisptick choice" on the free choice of partner. Selected by the French Institute of Algeria at the "6th Laboratory of Algiers", she directed "Sorry Mom" in 2019, a short documentary on Amine, a young Algerian tattoo artist, torn between his passion and religious and family pressure. In 2021, she directed a documentary film “Living together in peace” for Caritas Algeria. In 2021, she is directing her first long documentary, currently in post-production, around a collective of Algerian street artists. Today, she is in full development of the writing of her first fiction feature film project "Beating".