Mathias Monet is a French filmmaker and photographer born in 1992 in Cannes. He studied music at the Cannes and Montreuil conservatories before being trained in the film industry at the Fonderie de l'image in 2014.
In 2017, Mathias Monet left to work for a year as a photographer with the Talibés in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. He produced a series of 150 portraits dedicated to these street children, which he exhibited in Dakar and then in Paris the same year.

In 2018, Mathias Monet made his first documentary in partnership with the European Guild and the Vidome association. Shot in Benin, "Les contes de Kokoro" was selected in several festivals in France and abroad before winning the "Golden tree" for best documentary film at the Sarajevo International Film Festival in 2019.

The same year, Mathias Monet travels to Chad and collaborates with the Central African Peul refugees living in the village of Niergui in the centre of the country. He produced the documentary project "Refugee Photographers" which was exhibited in December 2020 at the French Institute in N'Djamena in the presence of the French ambassador to Chad and the Chadian Ministry of Culture.

In 2019, with the support of the French Institute, Guéra touristique and France Volontaires, he will make a second documentary film "Au revoir Bangui", which traces the journey and daily life of the Peul victims of the third civil war in CAR.

Based in Paris since 2010, Mathias Monet has been working in sub-Saharan Africa since 2017.