El vol de la cigonya

Barcelona, 1994. She participated in the TEDxyouth Barcelona at the CCCB (2013) and received a scholarship to study the Project Course at the Grisart School in Barcelona (2015). That same year, she is selected by Flickr as one of the twenty best female photographers under twenty and is awarded with an exhibition in New York. She was awarded by the Fundación Banco Santander with Fototalentos (2013) and received the Sony World Photography Awards (2013) in the young portrait category. Between 2014 and 2018 she lived in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where she collaborated in several participatory photography projects and conducted workshops with women in juvenile prison in the same city. She completed a Master's Degree in Documentary Film at EICTV, San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, where she made her first short film Todos los días Elisa (2021) and in 2022 she received the Injuve Creaciones and Investigación e Investigación scholarships from OSIC. He currently combines his work with the collective Ruido Photo with the pedagogical program Cine en Curso. He is also developing the feature film El vol de la cigonya and the short film Artic Echoes.

Barcelona, 1993. She trained as a translator and interpreter of German and English at Pompeu Fabra University, specializing in literary/audiovisual translation and working as a translator in 2019. In 2021 she develops a documentary project about the disappearance of her grandmother's Berber dialect and is awarded the Barcelona Scholarships. The project mutates until it becomes what today is El vol de la cigonya. Thanks to the Bonne Maison Feminist Documentary Creation Lab, where the project is awarded a grant to be part of the team, Soumaya gets the theoretical and practical advice she needs to be able to carry out this process.