Maïmouna Doucouré’s short film Maman(s) (2015) was selected for nearly two hundred festivals worldwide and won more than sixty awards, including the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the Best Short Film award at the Toronto International Film Festival and the César Award for Best Short Film. In 2019, Doucouré was awarded the Gold Fellowship for Women by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts. Cuties (2020), her first feature-length film, won the Best Director award at Sundance and a Special Mention from the Generation Kplus International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival. Hawa (2022) is her most recent film.