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Aché Ahmat Moustapha (born July 16, 1985) is a Chadian sociologist, author and film director. She is known mostly for her films that focus on the rights and protection of African girls and women. She has lived in France since 2020.

Early life and education Ahmat Moustapha was born in N'Djamena, Chad in 1985. Raised in a family from northern Chad, she grew up in a culture that placed significant restrictions on girls’ freedom of movement. These early experiences influenced her later activism in support of women and girls and inspired the themes of some of her films.

She attended the University Abderrahmane Mira of Béjaïa in Algeria from 2003 to 2007 where she received her degree in sociology and communications.

She is fluent in French, Arabic, English and Kanembou.

Career Ahmat Moustapha's first job after finishing her studies was in 2008 as a producer at the Office National de la Radio et Télévision Tchadien (ONRT). From 2009 to 2011, she went on to co-host Espace Jeunes, a popular talk show on Chadian TV. Her second short, Al-Amana (2016), also follows a Chadian girl, a teenager who dreams of being a musician and is held back by her family. The film premiered at Fespaco in 2017 and screened at the Luxor African Film Festival, the Festival Cinema Court Kef in Tunisia, and the AFRICLAP Film Festival of Toulouse. Also in 2018, she founded FETCOUM, the first short film festival ever held in Chad. Funded in part by the French embassy of N'Djamena, the first edition ran for 4 days in June followed by a second edition in October 2019. The independent advisory council, with more than a dozen members, advises the French president on the relationship between France and Africa and on African issue more broadly.

Her first novel, Kalam Sutra, was published in France by Cent Mille Milliards in March 2022. Centered around a girl orphaned by Boko Haram, Ahmat Moustapha aimed for the story to bring visibility to women's rights and the fight against terrorism in the Lake Chad region.

In 2025, she released the documentary #Harcèlement 2.0, (#Cyberbullying 2.0) an exploration of her and other African women's experiences with cyberbullying. The film received coverage from media that included France 24, TV5 Monde Afrique, Radio France International, and Jeune Afrique.

Works

Filmography YearTitleCategory2014 Entre 4 Murs A Day at School in Chadshort documentary2025#Harcèlement 2.0 Cyberbullying 2.0feature documentary

Book Publications 2017 Portraits de femmes tchadiennes (Portraits of Chadian Women). Book of photography co-authored with Salma Khalil. France: Edilivre.

2022 Kalam Sutra. A novel. France: Cent Mille Milliards.