Alexe Poukine was born in 1982 in the suburbs of Paris. She lives in Brussels.
After highschool, she studied photography at the Beaux-Arts School in New-Zealand.
At age 20, back in France, she took drama lessons, then resumed studies in Anthropology and Arabic. In 2006, she moved to Jordan to prepare a thesis she abandoned to enter the documentary school of Lussas. Her graduation film, Petites Morts, is a non-fiction project dealing about abortion.
In 2011, her photographic project about absence resulted in an exhibition and the book Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur.
After the death of her uncle who was homeless, she filmed for three years two men who lived on the street. Her first feature-length documentary, Dormir, dormir dans les pierres was screened in 2013 at numerous festivals and bought by the french national television.
That same year, she entered the Atelier Scenario of La Fémis, in Paris, where she studied screenwriting.
Released in 2019, her second feature-length documentary, That which does not kill tackles the issue of rape. It was selected in many prestigious international festivals and won several awards.
Palma, a medium-lenght self-fiction was completed in 2020.
She is now writing her first long fiction film.