Marie Dumora She shoots her films in eastern France, within a few acres of each other, and has thus created a territory of herself. The characters in one film lead to the next like Ariadne’s thread, so much so that it is not uncommon to find them a few years later from one film to …
Richard Dindo Born in Zurich in 1944, he was the grandson of Italian immigrants who had settled in Switzerland. He left school at the age of 15 and began travelling, working in various food trades. He moved to Paris in 1966. Self-taught, he became a film-maker by watching several films a day at the Cinémathèque …
Lemohang Mosese The Berlin-based visual artist and self-taught filmmaker was born in Hlotse, Lesotho. His visual essay Mother, I Am Suffocating, This Is My Last Film About You premiered in the Forum at the Berlinale in 2019 and has been presented at other high-profile festivals and institutions such as MoMA. The following year, he was …
Gianluca Matarrese An Italian director based in Paris, he has established himself as a prominent voice in contemporary documentary filmmaking. Over the past five years, he has directed nine acclaimed films presented at prestigious international festivals, including the Venice Film Festival, IDFA, Thessaloniki, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DMZ, Torino Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Biografilm, Festival …
Emmanuelle Bidou Born in 1969, Emmanuelle Bidou is a French ethnologist and anthropologist. Since the 90s, she has been writing and directing short documentaries for television. She also works as a trainer in various film schools, notably the Atelier Varan in Paris.
Joana Dos Reis It was around the age of 30, when I was working in a local cinema in Paris and living a fast-paced life, that I was bitten by the documentary film bug. The films of Frederick Wizeman, Robert Kramer, Claire Simon, Agnès Varda, the Maysles brothers and so many others opened my eyes …
Radu Jude A Romanian film director. Radu Jude was born in 1977. He made several short films before moving on to feature films with The Happiest Girl in the World (2009). He works in both fiction and documentary.
Sylvie Ballyot Sylvie Ballyot, filmmaker and video artist, explores different forms of cinema – film diaries, experimental films, documentaries, fictions -, where she questions the boundary between the intimate and the collective. His films have been selected and awarded in several festivals including the Directors’ Fortnight, Documenta Madrid, Clermont-Ferrand, Cinemed Montpellier, Nyon, Lussas, Sao Paulo, …
Ben Rivers 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.
Shinji Somai 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 …