François Margolin born on the 29th of March 1957 alumnus from FEMIS French National Film School combines the hats of writer director and producer He directed Mensonge in 1994 with Nathalie Baye The Opium of the Talibans in 2001 and Les Petits Soldats about Child Soldiers in Liberia in 2005 His first short movie Elle et Lui won the famous Jean Vigo Prize His work as a producer won him to work with prestigious directors like Raoul Ruiz Nucingen House Dias de Campo Hou HsiaoHsien The Flight of the Red Balloon Raymond Depardon Empty Quarter une Femme en Afrique Olivier Assayas Boarding Gate or Costa Gavras and Abbas Kiarostami for the omnibus documentary À propos de Nice la suite In 1986 he created the production company of Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris and worked as a journalist during the eighties for Liberation and LExpress in Africa and Afghanistan He published a successful book about the Black Jews of Ethiopia We were the only Jews in the World in 2008