Sylvie Ballyot A graduate of the Fémis film school, Sylvie Ballyot turned to experimental cinema to make Tu crois qu’on peut parler d’autre chose que d’amour? co-directed with Béatrice Kordon. From then on, her favourite themes have been desire, identity and family relationships. Her latest film, Green Line, is the culmination of a process of …
An artist and filmmaker based in London, England. He has made around 40 short and feature length films which tread a fine line between documentary and fiction, and often focusing on people who have separated themselves from mainstream society.
Sômai Shinji Born in 1948 in Morioka, Iwate, Bio Shinji Sômai gave up his studies in literature at Chuo University in 1972 to become an assistant director under contract to Studio Nikkatsu. He then went freelance, working as an assistant director with filmmakers such as Hasgawa Kazuhiko and Terayama Shuji. He directed his first film, …
Joël Akafou Born in 1986 in Bouaké (Côte d’Ivoire), he has a professional master’s degree in film production from ISIS (Institut Supérieur de L’Image et du Son Ouagadougou). He has made a number of short documentaries and fiction films for schools, the latest of which, Nourah, has been selected for a number of festivals. His …
James Benning Making the first of his avant-garde works in 1972, James Benning shortly thereafter started to produce longer experimental films. Between 1978 and 1985 he realized numerous projection and computer installations. From 1977 to 1980 he taught at the Universities of California and Oklahoma. Since the end of the 1980s he has lived in …
Ivan Marković A filmmaker and visual artist, his recent work focuses on various connotations of space, and observes the relationship between architecture and ideology. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 2012 and, in 2019, completed his master’s studies in film at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In recent …
Alejandro ALONSO ESTRELLA (1987, Cuba) Graduado en Realización de Documentales en la Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Su cortometraje La despedida (2014) tuvo su estreno mundial en IDFA. Duelo (2016) se estrenó en Cinema du Réel; ganó el premio al mejor cortometraje en el Festival de Cine …
Brydie O’Connor is a New York based filmmaker. Her work activates archives through queering storytelling structures within the nonfiction space. Brydie’s work has been supported by Hot Docs, Dok.Leipzig, Ji.hlava IDFF, NYFA, NYSCA, Brooklyn Arts Council, DocsBarcelona, The Future of Film Is Female, ArtsKC, and the Stonewall Foundation, and has been presented at The Museum …
LEONOR NOIVO grew up in Macao. She came to Lisbon in the late 90s, where she studied architecture before joining Film School. She’d later study in Ateliers Varan, cinéma vérité school, which became a decisive artistic influence for her. Her films were screened and awarded in festivals around the world, like LOCARNO, ROTTERDAM, ZINEBI, FID …
Feargal Ward A filmmaker and artist from Ireland, his practice is largely concerned with the hybrid-documentary form, where tropes and devices of narrative cinema are often appropriated or subverted in an attempt to facilitate the telling of greater truths. His debut feature documentary Yximalloo (2014, co-directed with Tadhg O’Sullivan) premiered at FID Marseille, and The …