Louise Heem

Louise Heem is a Flemish French actress, scriptwriter and director. After some training in France, Germany, Argentina and Israel, she started her career in theatre in 2007 and joined cinema in 2011. She has taken part in international productions as an actress -amongst them: Love, theft and other entanglements (Muayad Alayan), Eyes of a thief (Najwa Najjar), Nous irons vivre ailleurs (Nicolas Karolszyk) and Another day (Hassan Fathi). Based in Paris, she has traveled in 40 countries. Quadrilingual in French, English, Spanish and Italian -she worked before as a language teacher, a protection officer in charge of asylum requests and an interpreter- she goes regularly to the Middle East where she learns Palestinian and Modern Standard Arabic. In 2016, El dia de la virgen -her first-short movie as a director and scriptwriter- was screened in Palestine for its Première during Nablus festival and Gaza Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival.