Maël Bret was born in Dijon. From 2010 to 2015, he studied plastic arts at École Supérieure d'art et design de Saint - Étienne (ESADSE), approached the cinema through documentary and video, wrote a master dissertation on Apichatpong Weerasethakul. During a stay in Shanghai, he began the making of his first film I don ’ t speak Chinese , inspired by a novel of François Cheng.In 2015, he enters the master « directing » of École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ESAV) which give him the occasion of an internship for the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard selection. Maël Bret writes the scenario of his next film, a walk around the blind spot, the opportunity for him to play.