An independent filmmaker born and living in Marrakech, Adnane Baraka studied Directing at the ESAV film school in Marrakech and graduated in 2011. In 2010, he directed his first short documentary, Talbanine, about a remote and isolated school in the mountains. In 2019, he completed his first full-length documentary, Wandering Stars, which was a portrait of three blind young Moroccans. Since 2014, Baraka has been working on the film Fragments from Heaven, which has been shot over several periods between 2017 and 2019. He is also a musician, conducting research into sound through the InCave and SENT projects.