Idriss Gabel is son and grandson of a minister. Native of France, his family immigrates in Belgium when he is 3 years old. As a teenager, a true prodigal son, he is dismissed from several schools and ends up in a “garbage school” in Brussels. He takes advantage of this situation to study cinema, for which he has a real passion. Self-taught person, he soon works with Belgian director Thierry Michel as his official editor. He also travels with him on his shootings in Congo. These experiences shall reveal a true interest for direction, and a capacity to immerse himself with the characters he is filming, becoming a privileged witness of the situations they are facing. The story of his family is also full of travels, and is rich of multiple adoptions, among which the one of his Down’s Syndrome brother. This truly family epic, together with this melting pot of diversity, influences and inspires his cinematographic work, day after day. Idriss Gabel always had a real passion for cinema. Self-taught person, he works with Belgian director Thierry Michel as his official editor, and on shootings in Congo. These experiences shall reveal a true interest for direction, and a capacity to immerse himself with the characters he is filming.