Clara Jeany Clara Jeany was born in 1999 and holds a master’s degree in gender studies and francophone literature. In 2024, she made her first film as part of the Master Empreintes du Réel at the Université de Picardie – Jules Verne. Her work focuses on issues of exile and sexuality.
Maxime Garault Maxime Garault studied literature, then editing at La Fémis. Sa rafale is his debut documentary.
Elsa Brès Filmmaker and artist, she graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national d’arts contemporains and from the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture, where she taught architecture and landscape theory.Her films and installations focus on forces of resistance in spaces on the margins, on the edges or under the ground. After three short films revolving around alternative narratives …
Luna Mahoux A Belgian artist whose work explores overlooked Afro-diasporic narratives through a blend of music, documentary, and archives. She graduated in Painting from La Cambre and joined Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains in 2023. While traveling in the United States, she deepened her research on music as a living archive and the complexity …
Svetlana Rodina and Laurent Stoop Svetlana Rodina graduated in Russian literature, philology and in film directing in Moscow.Laurent Stoop has a degree in literature and photography. As DOP he shot various television and feature documentaries.
Laurent Stoop has a degree in literature and photography. As DOP he shot various television and feature documentaries, including the award-winning and critically acclaimed CITIZEN KHODORKOVSKY (2016).
Mathilde Girard Born in Paris in 1979, she is a psychoanalyst, writer and film-maker. With a doctorate in philosophy, she has published several works on the notion of community in contemporary thought (by Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy) and recently a work of prose, Les Indications pour le corps. For several years now, she has …
Ali Vanderkruyk A filmmaker from Canada, currently based in Los Angeles. Her work engages with shifting notions of the self-and-other in documentary ethics as it relates to ecology, carceral geographies, the archive and the body. She received an MFA in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts, where she currently teaches.e received an …
Noëlle Pujol Noëlle Pujol is a filmmaker and artist whose work experiments with new filmic devices and narrative forms. She places cinematographic writing in the broader context of contemporary creation, enriching her research with drawing, photography, writing and set design. Her investigative works take the form of documentary essays, capturing both a personal history and …
Camille Sisman Born in Paris, Camille studied french literature and drama, and started as a cinematographer on short movies. She entered la Fémis in 2020. Her first full-length movie as a cinematographer, La Colline (directed by Julien Chauzit), was prized at the FidMarseille Festival in 2021.
Pauline Rigal A filmmaker born in 1991, she founded in 2018 with Baptiste Jopeck the film magazine Les Saisons. She publishes writings by filmmakers and artists such as Tacita Dean, Robert Gardner, Lav Diaz, Sharon Lockhart, Deborah Stratman, Helga Fanderl and many more.
Daphne Xu An artist and filmmaker, her films unfurl from places in flux; they are concerned with the interior lives of women and diasporic subjects caught in moments of rapid development. Her films have premiered at festivals and institutions including Toronto International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Visions du Réel, and Cinéma du réel …