French-Estonian, Eléonore de Montesquiou was born 1970 in Paris, she now lives in Tallinn and Berlin. Her work is based on a documentary approach, translated in films, drawings and texts. In Estonia she is giving voice to the Russian community or asylum seekers from French speaking countries arriving in Estonia. Her films often follow the protagonists over time. „Traverses“, with shepherds in the Hautes Alpes, since 2011, or „Nagrane“ with women living on the Estonian-Russian border.