The Utopian decade
In 2015, Djinn and Salomé became unhappy with their art-world routine—it felt kind of vain and repetitive: writing, financing, shooting, screenings. So they left Paris for Perpignan, a city Dalí famously called "the center of the world." There, they created FYMo—Fight Your Mind Open as a pledge to their own open-mindedness. During the next ten years, they decided to approach everything they filmed as intimate cinema. From the wedding of an old flame in Rotterdam to a writing workshop in a French prison, from a queer Brazilian party in Barcelona to a feminicide survivor bearing the Olympic flame for Paris 2024—these projects helped them find their purpose and inspired them to launch EU·TOPIANS.
The Guerilla era
Salomé began her film career at age 7, playing the little Lili in Agnès Varda’s One Hundred and One Nights. At 17, she wrote her first feature-length screenplay, Which One of Us, directed by Charles Belmont and screened at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles.
Djinn grew up between Haiti, Togo, France, and French Guiana. He dropped out of philosophy studies at the Sorbonne and taught himself filmmaking.
They met in 2009, when Djinn was directing his first guerrilla feature film, DONOMA, in which Salomé starred as one of the lead characters. DONOMA was later shown at the Cannes Film Festival (ACID selection), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and the Busan International Film Festival. Together, they co-signed FAIRE L'AMOUR, presented as the opening film of Cannes Film Festival's Critic's Week.