Alex Moussa Sawadogo was born in1990 in Ouagadougou where he studied art history and in Hamburg he studied culture and media management specializing in dance, african film film and in creation and management of cultural programs.
He collaborated in numerous cultural institutions in Burkina Faso such as the African film festival FESPACO.
He moved to Berlin in 2005 where he worked as press and culture officer for the Burkina Faso embassy.
Sawadogo has been an artistic director of the AFRIKAMERA film festival in Berlin since 2007 and of the Ouaga Film Lab in Burkina Faso since 2016.
He conceived and curated the dance festivals “Border Border Express” (2011), “Moussokouma” (2013) and “Sleepless Nights” (2016) at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer theater in Berlin. He also worked as a curator at other festivals like Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, German Film Focus and Afrotech.
Sawadogo worked as an artistic advisor for the “Open Doors” program at the Festival del Film Locarno from 2012 to 2015 and and since 2014 “Africa” consultant for the Koudougou – Documentary Meetings in Burkina Faso.
At the 2017 Durban International Film Festival in South Africa, he was in charge of the programming of German Films (Focus Germany).
In 2020, he was appointed as film expert for the Africa 2020 season in France.
Alex Moussa Sawadogo now lives between Burkina Faso and Germany.