Alois Sandner Díaz was born on
the shores of the Atlantic Ocean
on the island of Tenerife (Spain) to
a Canarian mother and a German
father. Passionate about writing and
storytelling from an early age, he
studied Social Sciences in Madrid
and at UCL (London) and Philosophy
at the Sorbonne (Paris). In 2020, he
graduated from La Fémis’s directing
department in Paris. He has worked
on several film projects with local
communities in Bogotá (Colombia)
and La Paz (Bolivia). Based in Paris
for the last ten years, he has directed
several short fiction films, including
Les Huns, Passe impair et manque,
and Querido Juancar. His last film,
Les amours électriques, premiered
at Torino Film Festival. His work
seeks new images and narratives to
tell stories that explore the tensions
between tradition and modernity,
technology and humanity, the
intimate and the political. Through
his films, he strives to create
cinematic experiences that invite the
viewer to rethink their relationship
with reality and with others. Words
That Burn is his first feature-length
fiction film.