Julien Gaertner is a historian, documentary filmmaker, and researcher. After teaching at the University of Montreal, he lectured at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris on the Méditerranée campus. In 2010, he defended a thesis on "The Image of the "Arab" in French Cinema from 1970 to the Present Day." His research interests include the history of immigration, the history of representations, and the history of cinema. He directed "Déséquilibre" in 2013, a documentary about a family of acrobats in Tangier. He then collaborated with Karim Dridi on the documentary "Quatuor Galilée" (2014), then on the writing of his fiction "Chouf," released in theaters in 2016. They co-directed "Hakawati, les derniers conteurs" (2019).
