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 …
Déni Oumar Pitsaev was born in 1986 in Chechnya. He grew up in Almaty (Kazakhstan), in Samashki, near Grozny in Chechnya, then in St. Petersburg (Russia). He arrived in Paris at the age of 17. He studied at the Sciences-Po Paris, followed by a master’s degree in directing at the INSAS, and a master’s degree …
Ryusuke Hamaguchi He is one of the most acclaimed directors of the new generation of Japanese cinema. His films include Senses (2015), Drive My Car (which won the screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021) and Evil Does Not Exist (2024). He is currently shooting his next film in Paris.