Akuol de Mabior

Akuol de Mabior

Biography

Akuol de Mabior is South Sudanese and was born in Cuba in 1989, now residing in Nairobi, Kenya. She has directed several short films that have all been screened at international festivals and in museums, including the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, at the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa, and at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA. Akuol de Mabior believes that African women’s perspectives are significantly underrepresented and underestimated. She uses her films to tell stories that appeal to a broad, international audience. She is showing NO SIMPLE WAY HOME, her first feature-length documentary, in Cologne. (This film was created as part of GENERATION AFRICA, a joint project of the South African NGO STEPS and the DW Akademie (Bonn)).

Filmography

NO SIMPLE WAY HOME (2022): Direction