Theater Director until 2010, Christophe Cotteret lived in Beirut from 2002 to 2006, he started in July 2006, since the war between Hezbollah and Israel, a project called Project Lebanon, a series of four shows in the form of theater -documentary, presented in different countries (Belgium, France, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan).

Between 2010 and 2012 he directed his first feature-length documentary, co-signed with Amira Chebli: Democracy year zero. In 2013, he directed his second documentary on the Tunisian Islamic movement Ennahdha, winner of the elections in Tunisia in October 2011. In 2015 he began in Rwanda the making of the documentary film Inkotanyi (the film), on the history of Paul Kagame and the politico-military movement RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front).