Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, also, a founding member of the Palestine Film Institute, that focus on supporting, promoting, and preserving Palestinian …
Filmmaker and video artist Avi Mograbi was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv, where he lives and works. He grew up in a family of European and Arab Jewish emigrants – his grandfather, who came from Damascus, founded one of the first cinemas in Tel Aviv – in a Zionist environment from which he emancipated …
Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. As an activist and documentary director, he is fighting against Israel’s mass expulsion of his community.
Hamdan Ballal is a photographer and farmer from Susya in the West Bank and has worked as a researcher for several human rights groups opposed to the Israeli occupation.
Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist. He lives in Jerusalem.
Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor and director. She lives in Jerusalem.
Silva Khnkanosian is a director and photographer. She made her first film at 21: Nothing To Be Afraid Of. The film follows five women doing civilian mine clearance on the Armenian border. It has been selected at Dok Leipzig, IFFR Rotterdam, Fipadoc, FICCI Cartagena…and has won awards. In 2020, at the start of the 44-day …
Sylvestre Meinzer is an anthropologist, photographer and film director. After working in costume and scenography, she joined the Mission du Patrimoine Ethnographique and the CNRS in Ivry. Since her education at Ateliers Varan and École des Gobelins, she has worked in documentary film and fine art photography. She exhibits her work in museums and art …
Claire Doyon directed her first feature film Les Lionceaux in 2002, selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. She then directed: The wind blows where it wants, Kataï, Dark avenues, Arsenic, Chrishna/Ombwiri, films selected at international festivals including Locarno, Venice, Turin, FID Marseille, Clermont-Ferrand, side court Pantin and for which she won …
Born in France in 1974, Jean-Gabriel Périot has made many short films on the edge of documentary, experimental and fiction.He has developed his own editing style that questions violence and history, based on film and photographic archives material. His films, including Dies Irae, Even If She Had Been a Criminal…, Nijuman no borei (200 000 …
Pierre Carles was born in 1962 in Bordeaux, France. After studying social work and journalism, he worked as a news camera operator before directing his first documentary short films for BelgoFrench TV show Strip Tease. In 1998 he directed the media criticism film Pas vu pas pris (“not seen, not caught”) selected at the Locarno …