Anouk Moyaux Anouk Moyaux is a director and a visual artist living and working in Marseille, France. In her work, she is particularly interested in the belief systems of Western culture, and questions their power to influence our decisions, behaviors and life projections. She explores these themes by navigating between different narrative and formal registers, …
Göran Hugo Olsson Born 1965 in Lund, he has studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm after film studies at Stockholm University. He is a Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and inventor of the A-cam, the world smallest Super-16 film camera, and D2 the only uncompressed digital camera. He’s also editor and founder of …
Aminatou Echard She studied Ethnomusicology and cinema. As an artist who works with experimental film and documentary, Aminatou’s focus is how space transforms people and how people inhabit spaces. She conveys this idea by exploring the relationship between sound and image.Fieldwork is an essential part of her artistic practice. From 2006 onwards, she travelled regularly …
Dominique Cabrera Born in Algeria in 1957 into a pieds-noirs family, Dominique Cabrera entered Idhec after studying literature. She shot her first documentaries in the suburbs, including Chroniques d’une banlieue ordinaire, Réjane dans la tour, Une poste à la Courneuve. In Rester là-bas, she deals with the pieds-noirs who became Algerian citizens, and takes contemporary …
Donatienne Berthereau After completing a Master’s degree in film studies with Nicole Brenez, she joined the directing department of la Fémis school of cinema, graduating in 2021. In 2022, she directed her first short film, Nuits Blanches, produced by Les Films du Sursaut, about a woman adrift in Paris between the two rounds of the …
Amit Dutta Born in 1977 in India, he was educated at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2004, and is now regarded as one of the most successful experimental filmmakers from his country. Dutta has made more than 40 films and published six books. His works range from literary adaptations, fiction, documentation, …
Diana Allan A filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include Voices of the Nakba: A living history of Palestine (2021) and Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014).
Sophie Bredier Born in South Korea, then adopted in France, Sophie Bredier is a documentary filmmaker and fiction scriptwriter. After studying classics at the Sorbonne and working as a critic (Bref, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, La Lettre du Cinéma), she turned to documentary filmmaking, making three autobiographical films – Nos traces silencieuses (1998) and Séparées …
Gaspard Hirschi Born in Paris in 1978. After studying literature and philosophy, he joined Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, then worked on a number of feature film shoots in various technical positions. He directed his first feature-length documentary in 2012. He has lived in Marseille since 2007.
Lee Anne Schmitt She is an essay filmmaker; her projects have addressed American exceptionalism, the logic of utility and labor, gestures of kindness and refusal, and the history of racial violence in the United States. Her films have screened at Museum of Modern Art in NY, Viennale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, CInema du Reel (California …
Yashaddai Owens Born in 1998 in Brooklyn, New York. He spent much of his early life traversing several different U.S. states with formative years in Chicago, Illinois before settling back in New York, where he currently lives and works. Owens is the eldest of 11 and was raised in a Black Jewish community. For his …
Tolin Erwin Alexander Tolin Alexander is a Surinamese writer, theatermaker and performer who specializes in crosscultural theatre and community projects. In 1994, he founded the cultural dance group Fiamba with Louise Wondel (1971-2014), which aimed to integrate Maroon culture into the Surinamese society. Since 2003, he has developed and produced various plays and performances presented …