Loubna Régragui

Loubna RÉGRAGUI is an independent film preservationist and filmmaker. She studied at the European training programme ARCHIMEDIA for the Promotion of Film Heritage, and graduated from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in 2004. Here, she had the opportunity to work on the private film collection of Martin Scorsese. Since then, Régragui has collaborated with leading film archives and specialised film laboratories, on film preservation programmes and many prestigious restoration projects in Europe and the USA. In 2007, she set up and launched the Film Heritage Educational Program, the first major educational programme in India. She also curated the IFFI Goa Film Treasures, the new section dedicated to classics and professional workshops within the International Film Festival of India. Régragui specialised in creative documentary filmmaking at Ateliers Varan, and studied Modern Literature and Education at the Sorbonne. In 2014, she founded Versova Films in Paris, an organisation for the production, promotion, and preservation of films and any cinema related projects internationally. Her first feature-length documentary film The Nine Lakh Stars, world premiere at IFFR 2022, is an hommage to Indian director Mani Kaul, whose first film Uski Roti (1969) was one of the key films of the ‘New Indian Cinema’ or the Indian New Wave.