Born in Benin in 1967, Idrissou Mora Kpai lived in Algeria, Italy and Germany, where he studied at the Cinema and Television High School of Babelsberg. He is the producer of his own films; he lives and works between Paris and Cologne. His first work, Si-Gueriki, la Reine-Mère (2002), won the first prize for the best documentary film at the Namur festival in 2003.