Born in Cairo, Egyptian/Swiss director Christophe M. Saber graduated from an American College in Cairo in 2009. He then completed a short school of digital filmmaking in the U.S before being admitted in the cinema department of the University of Arts and Design of Lausanne in Switzerland in 2010. He wrote and directed several fictions as well as documentaries and experimental films. In 2014, he graduated from ECAL with first class honors. Discipline is his diploma film and his documentary The Valley of Salt was selected for Hot Docs in 2016.