Diam's creates a surprise after ten years of silence: his documentary will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival

"Sit down, I need to talk to you."

After more than ten years of absence, Diam's is back on the front of the stage, but without a microphone in their hands.

She has just announced the release of a new documentary retracing her career.

On Instagram, the interpreter of

recounts the process of creating his work.

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“For years, people knocked on my door asking me for permission to stage my life, to play it, to interpret it.

Many requests for documentaries, biopics, series have continued to flow,” explains the artist.

“I had the feeling that I was being asked to give the keys to my life so that others could make a film of it.

A show."

In video, the trainee at the Cannes Film Festival

“I took up the pen”

In a few sentences, Diam's explains that she did not want to let strangers speak for her and therefore decided to “take up the pen again.

The one with which I have always liked to indulge myself”.

After two books,

(2012) and

(2015), the former rapper unveils a screenplay that she adapts to the screen with the help of directors Houda Benyamina (

) and Anne Cissé (

) .

In her publication, she notably gives several clues on the subjects she will address in this documentary.

"There is certainly the story of Diam's behind the woman I am today, but it is also a human story, and a quest that can echo the story of so many people who wonder how to find the inner peace as they got lost in the maze of life.

His success, his depressions, Islam, his daily life… The long-awaited film is called

and will be presented in the Special Screenings category at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.