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Frédéric Goldbronn

Frédéric Goldbronn After studying social sciences (EHESS) and audiovisual documentation (INTD), Frédéric Goldbronn trained in documentary cinema at the Ateliers Varan in the early 1990s, he stubbornly digs into his filmography a path of cinema which seeks, in the footsteps of Walter Benjamin, “the narrow door of the past” by exploring his traces, a cinema …

Nayibe Tavares-Abel

Nayibe Tavares-Abel Dominican of Lebanese and Palestinian origin, she is a propmaster and documentary filmmaker. She directed the short films Carmencita (Trinidad & Tobago Film Fest 2020) and L’escalier de l’anxiété (Arts & Convergences Paris 2020).

Marthe Perret

Marthe Perret After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she made a film in partnership with Arte and Gallimard, Marthe Perret went on to study film at the Royal Academy of Fine Art (KASK) in Ghent. She lives and works in Brussels, working with other filmmakers on documentary projects as an editor and cameraman. …

Magalie Vaz

Magalie Vaz Born in 1998, Magalie Vaz is a French graphic designer and artist who lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieur d’Art et de Design de Nancy with a DNA in communication in 2020, followed by a DNSEP in communication in 2022 from the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts Besançon. …

Dado Amaral

Dado Amaral A multidisciplinary artist, born in Rio de Janeiro. Trained in theater, he worked as an actor and assistant director before moving into audiovisual production. He wrote and directed several short films, including two documentaries about the Prophet Gentileza. In the 1990s, he created the collective Boato, with which he worked for a decade, …

Léo Bizeul

Léo Bizeul Born in Pabu, France, in 1994. His self-produced films have been shown in venues and festivals such as Cinéma du réel (Capital retour, 2019), Ficunam, FIDBA, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Encuentro Cinematográfico Cámara Lúcida. 

Armand Yervant Tufenkian

Armand Yervant Tufenkian He was born in 1988 to parents from Aleppo, Syria. He did doctoral studies at Duke University, where he started a dissertation on the poetics of community in cinema, and studied filmmaking at CalArts. His films include In Lightning Agnes (2014), Accession (2018). He is currently a lecturer in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University (SUNY).

Anouk Moyaux

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

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

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

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

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 …