1981 born. Lives and works in Lucerne (Switzerland) and Belgrade (Serbia). 2004-06 attends University of Fine Art in Basel and Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade. 2006-09 University of Art & Design Lucerne, in Video department. Since 2010 she works as a filmmaker & editor. 2017 Co-Founder of PRO SHORT (Short Film Association Switzerland).

• Filmography
• 2018 - ALL INCLUSIVE, HD, 10’
• 2017 - INS HOLZ / IN THE WOODS, HD, 10’ 48'' (Co-Director: Thomas Horat)
• 2015 - JUST ANOTHER DAY IN EGYPT, HD, 10’ 48'' (Co-Director: Nikola Ilić)
• 2013 - KOD ĆOŠKA / DOWN ON THE CORNER, HD, 15’ 20'' (Co-Director: Nikola Ilić)
• 2011 - BAGGERN / TONS OF PASSION, HD, 12’ 30''

Tal Michael, born in 1974, is a film & TV director and content editor. Michael is a graduate of the film and Television dept. at Tel Aviv University, and a former PhD student in Comparative Literature. Among her works are the films "Who's Afraid of Mordechai Vanunu?", and "Israel is not waiting..." about the assassination of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin, "Pitbulls: Flesh&Blood".

Born in Ramat Gan, David Ofek graduated the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School in 1992. Ofek’s graduation documentary “High-Tech Dreams“ won 1994 Jerusalem Film Festival best short award. His extra graduation short Home (written by Yossi Madmoni) won the first prize award at 1994 Jerusalem film festival and dozens of international awards. David Ofek is one of Israel’s leading and prolific documentary and television series makers. His full-fledged body of award winning works (with Yossi Madmoni and individually) include: Bat Yam - New York (Israeli Academy Best TV Drama Series Award), No. 17 (Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary, Best Film - DocAviv Festival); the TV mini-series Melanoma My Love (Israeli Academy Award for Best Drama), The Ulpan (The Israeli Documentary Forum Award, Best Directing Award), Minimum Wage (Israeli Academy Award for Best Drama Series, Best Directing Award), House Call (IDFA 2016).

Born in Peru, she is a director who first studied architecture in Lima before attending the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS) film school in Belgium. She has taught film directing in Brussels, Cuba and Switzerland and is currently in charge of the Sound Image Culture (SIC) filmmakers’ lab in Brussels where she gives advice and support to filmmakers realising their projects. Her films have been invited to numerous international festivals, including the Berlinale Forum which screened her film Du verbe aimer in 1985.

• Filmography
• 1985 - DU VERBE AIMER
• 2006 - LA POSITION DU LION COUCHÉ
• 2009 - LE DICTIONNAIRE SELON MARCUS
• 2012 - HÉROS SANS VISAGE
• 2019 - BY THE NAME OF TANIA

Having studied film directing at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, her debut feature film, Une part du ciel, was selected for Un Certain Regard in Cannes and also screened at festivals in Toronto, San Sebastián and New York. She followed it with several documentaries which were shown at festivals and on television. She teaches at IAD and is Artist in Residence at the Université catholique de Louvain. By the Name of Tania is her third collaboration with Mary Jiménez.

• Filmography
• 2002 - UNE PART DU CIEL
• 2013 - D'ARBRES ET DE CHARBON - documentary (Sobre las brasas - documentary)
• 2015 - LE CHANT DES HOMMES
• 2019 - BY THE NAME OF TANIA - documentary

He majored in architecture in 2004 and received a master’s degree in creative documentary from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University in 2012. He has been a partner at the production company TERRATREME since 2008. In 2006 he participated in a workshop on documentary filmmaking held by the Ateliers Varan in Lisbon and produced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since then he has been working as a director in his own films and has taken on different roles in other projects. In 2009 he worked as a trainee at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. He teaches at the DOCNOMADS - European Documentary Master Course.
He directed the following films: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, co-directed with Frederico Lobo (2014 - World Premiere at “Visions du Réel”, Nyon, Switzerland); GUIDED TOUR (2009 - Audience Award at Indielisboa); THE GIFT FROM AFAR (2008 – Included in the collection "So close, So far" released in DVD by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); “GROUND GLASS I, II” (2007 – First prize at Lisbon’s Microfilms Festival); SHOW HOME (2007) and QUINTA DA CURRALEIRA (2006 – Primeiro Olhar Award at “Encontros de Cinema e Video de Viana do Castelo”).

Having studied film internationally (École Normale Supérieure, University of Oxford and University of Television and Film, Munich), Lena Karbe started her career in film acquisition and distribution before changing to production. After a 5-year-long tenure with one of the German leading production companies, she has founded her own production company Karbe Film, specializing on documentaries and international coproductions. Along her production activity, she is a curator of Chinese Film Festival in Munich and writes and directs.

• Filmography
• 2019 - CHINESE DREAM (short documentary, 24 min, Germany, Director, Producer, ZDF, Arte, a co-production of Karbe Film GmbH and Tellux next GmbH)
• 2017 - OUT OF LOVE (feature episodic documentary, 100 min, Germany, South Korea, India, Singapur, Vietnam, Director, Producer of the 1 Episode, EBS South Korea)
• 2017 - TOUCH OF CLASS (short fiction, Germany, Director, Producer, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München)

Tristan Coloma is an editor in chief of Lettre de l’océan indien. Having formerly worked as a journalist for Le Monde diplomatique and Le Monde, he is primarily working on reportages on the Sub-Saharan Africa. An Africanist, he has worked on several university publications on the connections between Africa, China and India to Europe (France, the Netherlands, Great Britain). Tristan has studied cinema before pursuing his studies of science and philosophy and co-written and co-directed several short films. The work on the project BLACK CHINA has begun from a reportage he wrote for Le Monde Diplomatique on the African presence in Guangzhou.

• Filmography
• 2019 - CHINESE DREAM (short documentary, 24 min, Germany, Co-Director, ZDF, Arte, a co-production of Karbe Film GmbH and Tellux next GmbH)

Anja was born in 1982 in Switzerland. After taking courses at the Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK), she studied animation at the Lucerne School of Design and Art (HSLU). In 2008, she received her diploma in visual design. Her highly acclaimed diploma film Chrigi dealt with the same topic as her recently finished anima-doc Chris the Swiss.

Eduardo Brito holds a Master's degree in Artistic Studies - Museology and Curatorial studies - from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. At the faculty Eduardo is a research fellow at the I2ADS's Research Group in Art and Intermedia, researching on museology, film and visual studies and photography. Eduardo was project coordinator of Reimagining Guimarães, a photography, archive and curatorial programme developed for the Guimarães 2012 European City of Culture. Brito is the author of the photographic books Terras Últimas (2010), Under the Almost-Same Light and Uma Variação Veneziana (2014), of the text As Orcadianas (The Orcadians, 2014), and of the short films Antropia (2009), Line (2013) and Over The Hills (with pianist Joana Gama, 2013) and As Simultâneas (with artist Rita Faustino, 2015). He wrote the screenplays for Paulo Abreu's film The Scoundrel (2012) and Manuel Mozos’ The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal (2015). He directed the short films Penumbria (2016) and Slope (2018).

• Filmography
• 2013 - LINHA
• 2016 - PENÚMBRIA

Susana de Sousa Dias, born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1962, holds a PhD in Fine Arts/Video and teaches at the Fine Arts Faculty of the Universidade de Lisboa. She has exhibited her cinematic works at international film festivals and art exhibitions worldwide and received several awards. In 2012 she was Co-director of the international film festival Doclisboa, opening up the new sections “Cinema of Urgency” and “Passages” there in 2013.

• Filmography
• 2019 - Fordlandia Malaise (41 min)
• 2017 - Luz Obscura (76 min)
• 2010 - Natureza Morta | Stilleben (3 screens, 33 min)
• 2009 - 48 (93 min)
• 2005 - Natureza Morta, Visages d’une dictature (72 min)

Rodrigo Areias began his studies in Management at the Portuguese Catholic University, graduated in Sound and Image at the School of Arts with specialization in image. He also specialised in Direction on the Tisch School of Arts at New York University and on the production Eurodoc program. He has developed throughout his career, creative work in the field of the independente cinema, in fiction and documentary, alternating with other works of video art and video clips for some of the best bands in the Portuguese rock scene (The Legendary Tiger Man, Wray Gunn, Dead Hand, Sean Riley, D3o, etc..) and various other projects. As a producer, he began his career in 2001 and has since produced and co-produced over 70 short, long, videos and documentaries. He has produced renowned authors like Edgar Pêra, João Canijo and FJ Ossang and young directors as André Gil Mata, João Rodrigues and Jorge Quintela. He also co-produced with Brazil, England, France, Germany and Finland. As a director, among several films, stands out Tebas (feature film) and Corrente(short film) which were represented in over fifty international film festivals and were awarded a dozen times. His second feature film premiered in Official Competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was awarded awith a honorable mension. He was responsible for the film production of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture where film directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Greenaway, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Victor Erice where included.

• Filmography
• 2018 - Hálito Azul (Blue Breath) – Documentário - 75'
• 2018 - Pixel Frio (Cold Pixel) – curta-metragem ficção - 15'
• 2016 - Ornamento & Crime (Ornament & Crime) – Longa-metragem ficção - 90'
• 2015 - O Guardador (The Keeper) – curta-metragem ficção - 15'
• 2014 - Cinema – Curta-metragem ficção - 9'- 35mm
• 2013 - 1960 – Documentário -70'- super 8mm
• 2012 - Estrada de Palha (Hay Road) – longa-metragem de ficção
• 2012 - Domesticada(Tamed) – curta-metragem ficção co-realizada com Paulo Furtado
• 2010 - Golias – curta-metragem documental -10'- Super 8mm
• 2008 - Corrente (Flow) – curta-metragem ficção -16'- 35 mm
• 2008 - Tebas- longa-metragem ficção - 75'
• 2007 - D. Afonso Henriques- O Conquistador – Documentário televisivo - 50'
• 2004 - Tempo Suspenso – curta-metragem experimental - 9'

Eloy Domínguez Serén was born in 1985 in Simes (Galicia). He studied in Salamanca, Milano and Barcelona, where he graduated in 2010. Before debuting as a filmmaker he worked as a film critic for both radio and press, becoming a member of the Youth Jury at 67th Biennale di Venezia in 2010. In 2012 he moved to Sweden, where he made his short film PETTRING. In 2014 he released two new projects, the short film I DEN NYA HIMLEN and the medium-feature film JET LAG (programmed at FID Marseille, Doc’s Kingdom, Museum of the Moving Image of New York and Etats Généraux de Lussas, among others). His film NO COW ON THE ICE was premiered in 2015 at Visions du Réel and awarded in Toulouse, Filmadrid, Play-Doc, L'Alternativa or Márgenes, while his two most recent works, the short films YELLOW BRICK ROAD and RUST, have been premiered at Jihlava IDFF and FID Marseille, respectively. In 2017 his new project HAMADA was selected at the Doc Station of Berlinale and it won two awards at the Doc Outlook of Visions du Réel. Moreover, he was also selected to participate at Berlinale Talents 2017. HAMADA was premiered at IDFA 2018, it's been selected in festivals such as Cinéma du Réel or Bafici and it's been awarded at Cinéma du Réel, Gijón International Film Festival, Tempo or Porto/Post/Doc. Along with that project, he is currently working in THE DARKER IT GETS, a Swedish production shot in the Arctic Circle.

• Filmography
• 2018 - Hamada, 89 min
• 2016 - Rust, 14 min
• 2015 – Den gula tegelvägen (Yellow brick road), 14 min
• 2015 – Ingen ko på isen (No cow on the ice), 63 min
• 2014 - Jet Lag, 52 min
• 2014 - I den nya himlen (No novo céio), 6 min
• 2013 – Pettring, 20 min

Mina Rad left her native country at the age of 18, the day after the Iranian revolution to purse her dream like Oriana Fallaci and become an international reporter. After studying history, journalism and communication at the Sorbonne Paris, she embarked on international political journalism in various Central Asian countries. She worked for the BBC, RFI and AFP. While traveling the world, for twelve years, she discovers another passion, World Music. She became Editor-in-Chief of World Music Supplements for The World of Music. Between 1990 to 2000 she traveled the world and produced supplements devoted to the music of rare and emerging countries for; Yemen, Egypt, Cuba, Cape Verde, Marocco and India. In 2011 and 2014, she trained in the production and writing of documentaries at Ateliers Varan. Her first film "For me the sun never sets," was awarded the prize for best documentary film at the Festival of Truth in Iran in 2012. This film got the jury mention, "for the warmth and simplicity to tell a deep story". She is the founder and president of Apresvaran, an alumni association of Ateliers Varan created in 2013. She is director of the Apresvaran Documentary Film Festival. As a documentary filmmaker, she has directed more than ten films. In preparing several documentaries, she notes that the documentary opens a window to the universe. Mina Rad has made several portraits of people who have marked the history of Iran: "This family of 60 people",and "History of the Mafi family". Mina Rad, is interested in the transmission of knowledge and the methods of the realization of great filmmakers like Jean Rouch (France), Pierre Perrault (Quebec, Canada). She directs and produces documentary films based on the influence of these cineastes. In 2017, the film "Jean Rouch Persian look", was broadcast by TV5 Monde on the occasion of the centenary of Jean Rouch. EN 2019, The film "Persian Tales, Jean Rouch in Iran" was presented at Melgaco International Documentary Film Festival in Portugal. It will be published in Montparnasse publisher in France in a series of films dedicated to Jean Rouch. EN 2019, "The future of the past, Pierre and Yolande Perrault", which reflects the influence of this filmmaker after half a century on the little children of the characters of his films at Isle aux Coudres. This film was in the official selection of the Festival for Art at FiFA in Montreal. And it is scheduled at the Jean Loup Passak awards at the Melgaco International Documentary Film Festival.

Thiago Zanato (1979), is a Brazilian-American filmmaker splitting his time between the USA and Brazil. He initially got involved in film as the creative director of projects such as "I'm Here", directed by Spike Jonze and "NY-Z", featuring Jay-Z and directed by Danny Clinch. In 2012, he started his own production company (Black Magic Films). He worked on films such as "Bite" (Brazil, 2016) and "Madrigal for a Living Poet" (Brazil, 2018) both directed by Adriana Barbosa and Bruno Mello Castanho. In 2018 he co-directed the short film "La Flaca" (The Bony Lady). He is currently directing his first feature documentary "Esu and the Universe", about an African god brought to the Americas by the enslaved Yoruba people.

Adriana Barbosa (1987), is a Mexican-Brazilian filmmaker based in São Paulo, Brazil. She is part of the Film Collective Cinefusão since 2009 where she took part of the script and art direction for the short films "Wax" (2009) and "String Quintet" (2010). Between 2015 and 2016 she produced the feature film "Young and Miserable" and "A film of Cinema", both directed by Thiago B. Mendonça. In 2016, she also directs the short film "Ferroada" (Bite) selected at Off Cinema Documentary Film Festival in Poland, Bucharest Short Films, Diametrale Experimental Film Festival, among others. In 2018 she co-directs along with Thiago Zanato the short film "La Flaca" (The Bony Lady). Also in 2018, she premieres her first documentary feature "Madrigal for a Living Poet" (2018) at the Official Competition of 21th Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes and she continues her research on a documentary about the regional Mexican traditions related to death.

Xenia Sigalova was born 1980 in Voronezh, Russia. After her school degree she studied Graphic Design at the art college in Voronezh, before she migrated to Germany with her parents. After taking her high school diploma in Germany, she did several internships at film and television production companies in and around Munich. Subsequently she began to study documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich. During her studies she accomplished several short and feature documentaries, such as the feature documentary “The opposite of work” (2009) and the medium length documentary “Empty Orchestra” (2016). Both had their premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Munich (Best.Doks).

• Filmography
• 2018 - Wir Träumten Vom Frühling (My Russian Spring, 78 min, documentary, graduation project, HFF München)
• 2016 - Leeres Orchester (Empty Orchestra, 45 min, documentary, HFF München)
• 2009 - Das Gegenteil Von Arbeit (The Opposite of Work, 68 min, documentary, HFF München)
• 2006 - Russischer Standard (Russian Standard, 14 min, documentary)

Miguel Gonçalves Mendes was born is 1978 in Covilhã, Portugal. He worked as an actor, director and producer and directed several feature films and documentaries. In 2002, he founded JumpCut, a cinema and theatre producer, based in Lisbon. He is currently one of the established names of the new generation of Portuguese filmmakers. He held a series of award-winning documentaries, experimental films and projects on request. His film Floripes, released in 2007, is his first hybrid production (documentary-fiction), a format the director began to explore. In 2011, he had the debut of his project José e Pilar, in co-production with O2Filmes and the Spanish producer El Deseo (from the Almodovar brothers). Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences, the film collected awards in several festivals and was elected to represent Portugal in the category of Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2012. Among his most recent works is the series “I’ve nothing of my own"", displayed by Canal Brazil in 2013. In 2018, Miguel adapted to the cinema one of the most lucid works of Portuguese culture – “Saudade's Labyrinth"" from Eduardo Lourenço – on a unique journey inside a brilliant mind. Miguel’s most recent project is the documentary MEANING OF LIFE - a film that tells the story of a young man with Amyloidosis and his exciting search for purpose, meaning and truth. In parallel, Miguel is also developing the long fiction film ""The Gospel According to Jesus Christ"", the controversial adaptation novel by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.

• Filmography
• 2004 - Autografia
• 2005 - Floripes
• 2007 - Curso de Silêncio
• 2010 - José e Pilar
• 2013 - Nada Tenho de Meu
• 2018 - O Labirinto da Saudade

Catarina Mourão studied Music, Law and Film (MA Bristol University). In 1998 she founded AporDOC, Portuguese Documentary Association and started teaching Film and Documentary in 2000. With another filmmaker (Catarina Alves Costa) she started Laranja Azul, an independent production company for creative documentary and visual arts in Lisbon.

• Filmography
• 2019 - O Mar Enrola na Areia (The Hissing Of Summer Sands) (curta)
• 2015 - A Toca do Lobo (The Wolf's Lair)
• 2010 - Pelas Sombras (Through Shadows)
• 2009 - Mãe e Filha (Mother and Daughter) (curta)
• 2006 - À Flor da Pele (On Edge)
• 2006 - A Minha Aldeia Já Não Mora Aqui (My Village Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
• 2004 - Malmequer, O Diário de uma Encomenda (Love Me, Love Me Not)
• 2002 - Desassossego (Restless)
• 2001 - Próxima Paragem (Next Stop) (curta)
• 1998 - A Dama de Chandor (The Lady of Chandor)
• 1997 - Fora de Água (Out of Water) (curta)
• 1996 - Porto (The Port) (curta)
• 1994 - Mecca Before I Die (curta)

Heba Khaled was born in Damascus in 1986 and studied Arabic Literature at Damascus University. She worked as a radio commentator and as a freelance fixer for CNN, Al Arabiya and Reuters in Damascus and Beirut between 2011 and 2013. In 2014, she started collecting footage for her first short-film People of the Wasteland. The same year, she moved to Berlin where she assisted the filmmaker Talal Derki in the direction of his film Of Fathers and Sons, which has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in 2018.

• Filmography
• 2018 - People From The Wasteland (21:10 min, experimental documentary, Germany/Syria)

He was born in Lisbon. Film director, cultural programmer, and professor in the fields of artistic creation, documentary and experimental film, Pedro Sena Nunes has directed various projects - documentaries, fiction films and commercials - with the support of ICA/RTP. Co-artistic director of Vo'Arte and co-founder of Companhia Teatro Meridional, he consults and coordinates diverse cultural projects. He integrated the teams of Fragile, Unlimited and European Video Dance Heritage (EVDH). He co-directs the international festivals InShadow – Lisbon ScreenDance Festival, InArt – Community Arts Festival and has programmed Olhares Frontais - Encontros de Cinema Viana do Castelo. His artistic work has had an increasing focus on social practices through expanding dynamics between people with special needs and professional artists. An orchestrator and stage director in various theatre, choreographic and performative projects, Pedro Sena Nunes, was awarded numerous times for his cinematographic, photographic and multidisciplinary works, both in Portugal and abroad. He is, currently, pedagogical coordinator (ETIC) and teacher in the Masters Documentary Cinema (ESMAD). He is a PhD student at the University of Lisbon in Performative Arts and Moving Image and a researcher at GECAPA in the intersecting, experimental areas between body and image.

• Filmography
Ficção (seleção) / Fiction (selection)
• 1994 - Eléctricos
• 2002 - Cacilheiros
Documentário / Documentary (Microcosmos)
• 1995 - Margens
• 1999 - Entraste no jogo, tens de jogar, assim na terra como no céu
• 2003 - A Morte do Cinema
• 2005 - Da pele à pedra
• 2007 - Elogio ao 1/2
• 2010 - Há Tourada na Aldeia
Documentário (seleção) / Documentary (selection)
• 1997 - Impressões do 3º dia em Glasgow
• 1997 - Fragments Between Time and Angels
• 2000 - Lugar à Dança
• 2008 - Corpo Todo
• 2009 - A Evolução de Darwin
• 2013 - Opus Tutti – Enraizar
• 2013 - 2 and 2, are four
• 2018 - Qualquer coisa de belo
Vídeo Experimental (seleção) / Experimental Video (selection)
• 1989 - As Imagens de Peter Robinson
• 1998 - As Palavras derretem-se na água
• 2001 - Homens Suspensos
• 2003 - Burdião
• 2008 - Labirinto
• 2010 - Hope
Instalação Vídeo (seleção) / Video Instalation (selection)
• 1995 - Efémeros Sentidos
• 1999 - Nómadas Urbanos
Screendance (seleção)
• 1998 - Devaneios Flutuantes: Carlos Paredes
• 2009 - Mergulho
• 2017 - Running Man

Lisbon, 1984. Graduated from The National Film and Theater Academy (ESTC) in Portugal, and Universidad del Cine - Buenos Aires. His feature debut MOUNTAIN (2015) had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival - Critics Week and through many other festivals (Rotterdam, San Sebastian, Buenos Aires, S. Paulo, Munich, Angers, Kerala or Montpellier where it won the prize for Best Film), before its commercial release in Portugal and France. João Salaviza directed a trilogy of internationally award-winning short films: RAFA (Golden Bear at Berlinale’12 and Ingmar Bergman Award at Uppsala); ARENA (Palme d'Or at Cannes’09); and CERRO NEGRO (premiere at Rotterdam). His films were selected for the most important festivals, and also presented in places as Centre Pompidou, La Biennale di Venezia of Architecture, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Barbican Centre, Malba Buenos Aires, Fundação Gulbenkian, Casa de America Madrid, Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art and Artium Basque Museum of Contemporary Art. João Salaviza also directed the experimental short films as STROKKUR (FID Marseille, Belfort, Gijón, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid); HOUSE AT COMPORTA commissioned for the Portuguese architecture national exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2010; HOTEL MÜLLER on the work of Pina Bausch. The short film HIGH CITIES OF BONE is his most recent work, with its World Premiere at Berlinale’17. CHUVA É CANTORIA NA ALDEIA DOS MORTOS, co-directed with Renée Nader Messora, have its premiere due in 2018.

• Filmography
• 2018 – Russa (Portugal, Brasil, 19 min)
• 2017 – High Cities Of Bone (Portugal, 19 min)
• 2015 – Montanha (Portugal/France, 90 min)
• 2012 – Rafa (Portugal/France, 25 min)
• 2011 – Cerro Negro (Portugal, 22 min)
• 2009 – Arena (Portugal, 15 min)

Ricardo Alves Jr. was born in Belo Horizonte in 1982. He is a Brazilian screenwriter, filmmaker and theater director. His works were screened and awarded in several international festivals such as Cannes Critic’s Week, Rotterdam, Locarno, Oberhausen, KarlovyVary, IndieLisboa and Rio International Film Festival. A full retrospective of his short films took place at the Cinémathèque Française, in 2013. In 2016, he released his first feature, Elon Doesn’t Believe in Death, which was contemplated by the Hubert Bals Fund for Script and Project Development in 2012. The film was selected for some of the most important Brazilian film festivals, such as: Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro (Best Actor Award); Panorama Coisa de Cinema (Best Film Award – Award IndieLisboa); and Semana dos Realizadores in Rio de Janeiro (Jury award). Its international premiere was at the Macao Film Festival & Awards, in China, where it won the Best Artistic Contribution Award. The film had its European premiere at the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Bright Future session. The Ibero-American premiere was in the competition section of the Cartagena Festival, in Colombia. It was also exhibited at IndieLisboa, in Portugal; FICUNAM, in Mexico; and BAFICI, in Argentina.

• Filmography
• 2016 – Elon Doesn’t Believe In Death (Fiction, Brazil, 75 minutes)
• 2013 – Tremor (Ficção, Brasil, 14 minutes)
• 2010 – Permanências (Documentário, Brasil, 34 minutes)
• 2007 – Invitation To Dine With Comrade Stalin (Ficção, Brasil/Argentina, 10 minutes)
• 2006 – Raw Material (Experimental, Brasil, 16 minutes)

Dmitri was born September 9, 1988, in Severodvinsk (Northern Russia). ere he graduated from Physics and Mathematics Lyceum. In 2013 he graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television with the degree in Director of Film and on TV (Sergei Petemkin’s Studio). Additionally, Dmitri have studied at the Cinema School of Krzysztof Zanussi in Warsaw in 2010 and in Summer Cinematic School in Huavarilla (Finland) in 2011. In the course of four years he worked with the legendary St. Petersburg composer Oleg Karavaichuk; Dmitri took part in making the documentary Oleg Karavaichuk: Encircling Minstrels. Dmitri took part in Masterschool Documentary campus 2017.

• Filmography
• 2009 - Can of Beans, 26 minutos — documentário
• 2010 - God is All Around, 8 minutos - documentário, ensaio
• 2011 - Homesickness, 13 minutos — documentário, reportage
• 2013 - Oleg Karavaichuk: Encircling Minstrels, 55 minutos — documentário, com o apoio de Art-Center Garazh (Moscow)
• 2013 - Standstill, 18 minutos — documentário
• 2018 - Russian dreamer, 38 minutos — documentário

Born in city of Vladimir, lived in a far north of Russia. Studied as a philologist, graduated from St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television with a specialization “Director of TV programs”. When working on different TV channels in Russia (while studying) realized that TV programs is not exactly his cup of tea, started to direct documentaries. Ilya have studied at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (HFF) in 2012. Directed several short documentaries and commercials. Works also as DOP.

• Filmography

Stefano Savona was born in Palermo in 1969. After studying archaeology and anthropology in Rome and Cambridge and working as an independent photographer in 1997 he started producing and directing documentaries and video installations. His first feature length documentary, Notes from a Kurdish Rebel, produced in 2006 by Arte France, gained the International Jury Prize at the Cinéma du Réel in Paris. His intimate chronicle of the 2008 war in Gaza, Cast Lead, obtained the Special Jury Price at the Locarno Film Festival 2009. In the same year he launched a campaign for the gathering of the filmed testimonies to be included into Il Pane di San Giuseppe, a visual archive for the preservation and the transmission of the oral history of rural civilization in Sicily counting to date around 200 hours of edited contributions. In 2010 he founded with Penelope Bortoluzzi Picofilms, a company with which he has been producing all his subsequent films. Among these Palazzo delle Aquile, awarded with the Grand Prix du Cinéma du Réel in 2011 and included in the Acid selection at Cannes Film Festival 2011, and Tahrir Liberation Square that, after its premieres in Locarno and at New York Film Festival was theatrically released in France and won the David di Donatello and the Silver Ribbon for best documentary in Italy.

• Filmography
• 2011 - Tahrir, Liberation Square
• 2011 - Palazzo delle Aquile
• 2010 - Spezzacatene
• 2009 - Cast Lead
• 2006 - Notes from a Kurdish Rebel

Born in 1971 in Cerignola, Italy. Agostino Ferrente is a director, producer and artistic director. Before becoming involved in cinema, he was an editorial coordinator for magazines and news programs addressed to communities of Italians living abroad. After gaining a degree in the DAMS in Bologna and attending Ermanno Olmi’s Ipotesi Cinema, he directed short films and music videos and produced them with his company Pirata Manifatture Cinematografiche. He’s also part of the multiethnic band L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio. In 2001, collaborating with ten accomplices, he founded the group "Apollo 11" in Rome, which saved the historical Apollo cinema theatre from becoming a bingo hall. By promoting film, music and writing, the group turned it into one of the liveliest cultural centres in Italy’s capital city, the first with an ongoing program dedicated to cinema of the real. He is currently working on his first non-documentary feature film.

• Filmography
• 2019 - Selfie, 78 min, documentário
• 2013 - Le Cose Belle, 88 min, documentário, com Giovanni Piperno
• 2006 - L’orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio, 93 min, documentário
• 2004 - Scusi, Dov’è Il Documentario?, documentário, coletivo
• 2000 - Intervista A Mia Madre, 52 min, documentário, com Giovanni Piperno
• 1999 - Il Film Di Mario, 45 min, documentário, com Giovanni Piperno
• 1994 - Opinioni Di Un Pirla, curta-metragem
• 1993 - Poco Più Della Metà Di Zero, curta-metragem documental

Camila Menéndez is graduated as director of the ERCCyV (Regional film and video school, Mendoza, Argentina) and continued her studies with Professor Miguel Pérez (The Lost Republic I and II) in his assembly workshop and dramatic structure. Since 2010, she has worked as an independent editor for several production companies and television channels in Mendoza and Buenos Aires, such as Baraka Cine, Pandito Films, Shango Films, Channel 7 of Mendoza, Obol, Acequia TV, Señal U. She edited the films "La pasión de Verónica Videla "(2011), (Panorama selection Cinelatino Festival of Toulouse) and" Los ojos llorosos "(2018) by Cristián Pellegrini. Also in "Necronomicón" (2017) by Marcelo Schapces, and the documentaries "Madam Baterflai" (2014) and "With flower´s name" (2018) by Carina Sama. She has directed the documentary short films "Biofertilizers" (2013, Tecnópolis TV), "Vol I: Antonio" (2018) and "Vol II: Lavalle" (2017). She was a participant in the 12th edition of Buenos Aires Talent Campus. She has worked as curator and audiovisual artist since 2009. He has obtained the Diploma in Creative Documentary Studies, at the Barcelona Cinematographic Observatory.

Lucas Peñafort is graduated in Cinematography at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. He worked as a sound designer, editor and producer in the documentaries directed by Martín Solá: Caja cerrada, Hamdan and La Famila Chechena, winner of the award for the best film at the Madrid Film Festival, Nyon Visions du Reel and Docs Barcelona . He has participated in the installation of traveling video together with Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki; Workers: "Leave your workplace" in more than ten cities. He gave an ethnographic film workshop to the community leaders in San Martín Chile Verde (Guatemala). Currently he collaborates with the LODO platform that focuses on the interdisciplinary dialogue of artists since 2014, working with performance, multichannel video installations and theater.

Julia Kushnarenko was born in Moscow and studied directing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. She has completed courses at Moscow’s Scream School in visual effects compositing. She works not only as a documentary director, but also as a cinematographer and an editor. Julia is fascinated by exploring characters in all their contradictions. In 2017 Julia with Veronika Sher founded International Dance Short Film Festival BODYSCOPE.

• Filmography
• 2017 - MOTOR, short documentary, 12'
• 2016 - THE FANTOMS, short film, 6'
• 2015 - IT'S ME, short film, 27'
• 2011 - THE STOP, short film, 9'

Katja Fedulova was born in Leningrad, USSR in 1975. In 1993 Katja went to Germany and started her studies at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. She earned her degree there in 2000 and moved to Berlin. She started her studies in cinematography in 2001 at the German Academy for Film and Television Berlin (dffb) Her award-winning graduation documentary "Ladies of Fortune" receives nationwide theatrical release in 2012.

• Filmography
• 2012 - Ladies of fortune, documentary, feature, graduation
• 2015 - My Name ist Khadija, documentary, middle long
• 2017 - Faith Hope Love, documentary, feature
• 2018 - The Patriot, documentary, short
• 2019 - Kirill Serebrennikov, documentary, middle long
• 2019 - Summer Guests, documentary, feature, in development

Elke Sasse studied literature in Berlin and worked as a journalist for radio and tv before focusing on documentary films. Her films centre on people from all walks of life: She documented the daily life of garlic farmers in China or dancehall pensioners in Berlin. She accompanied homeless people on their way through Germany and former slave workers waiting for justice. She found 100 places called Berlin worldwide, filmed old Ukrainian women on a bank discussing politics and searched for the leftovers of the Berlin wall all over the world. Her last film #MyEscape got several awards. It documents escape routes to Europe by using the videos the refugees themselves filmed during their escape journeys.

• Filmography
• 2016 - #MyEscape, 90’
• 2015 - One Day in Worldwide Berlin, 90’
• 2014 - Worldwide Berlin, Web-documentary and event
• 2010 - Babske Radio, 78’
• 2009 - Where is the wall?, 87’
• 2008 - Who’s afraid of Europe?, 83’

A Jordanian director, writer, and producer with Palestinian roots, Dina Naser holds a BA in Art and Graphic Design. Following her passion for filmmaking, she was granted the scholarship for DOCNOMADS Mobile Documentary School for a two-year MA programme in Lisbon, Budapest, and Brussels. She worked her way through a variety of television and film productions, until she began to direct and produce independently. Her first works are inspired by stories from her homeland. Her short documentary film ‘Shamieh’ (2011) portrays an aging Palestinian woman living in the Zizya refugee camp in Jordan. Her award-winning ‘One Minute’ (2015) tells the story of a woman living in Gaza while it was under attack in 2014. ‘Sea Wash’ (co-director, 2016), a short experimental film, pictures refugees who lost their lives at sea. ‘Tiny Souls’, a documentary project first realized in a nine-minute format, will be Naser’s first feature length film.

Coimbra (Portugal), 1969 Painting Degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, 1998 Co-orientation of several animation workshops since 1992 In 1992 she starts working in animation: - Animation, in the film "The Outlaws", by Abi Feijó, 92/93 - Animation and graphic research in the film "Fado Lusitano", 94/95 - Sand animation in the film “Stowaway”, by Abi Feijó, 2000. In 1996 she starts directing. Her films obtained a vast recognition, winning countless awards and becoming inescapable references. All her films are in the Portuguese National Cinema Plan, being studied by children and young people in Schools in Portugal. In 2016 became Senior Lecturer at FILMAKADEMIE - Germany. In 2018 became member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

• Filmography
• 1999 - A Noite
• 2001 - Odisseia nas Imagens
• 2005 - História Trágica com Final Feliz (Tragic Story with Happy Ending)
• 2012 - Kali o pequeno vampiro (Kali the Little Vampire)

Born in Bushehr southern of Iran and this is their fifth short film as director.

• Filmography
• 2012 - White
• 2014 - Plastic Date
• 2018 - The Fishnet And Fish
• 2018 - Wash Me Please

Rodrigo Areias began his studies in Management at the Portuguese Catholic University, graduated in Sound and Image at the School of Arts with specialization in image. He also specialised in Direction on the Tisch School of Arts at New York University and on the production Eurodoc program. He has developed throughout his career, creative work in the field of the independente cinema, in fiction and documentary, alternating with other works of video art and video clips for some of the best bands in the Portuguese rock scene (The Legendary Tiger Man, Wray Gunn, Dead Hand, Sean Riley, D3o, etc..) and various other projects. As a producer, he began his career in 2001 and has since produced and co-produced over 70 short, long, videos and documentaries. He has produced renowned authors like Edgar Pêra, João Canijo and FJ Ossang and young directors as André Gil Mata, João Rodrigues and Jorge Quintela. He also co-produced with Brazil, England, France, Germany and Finland. As a director, among several films, stands out Tebas (feature film) and Corrente(short film) which were represented in over fifty international film festivals and were awarded a dozen times. His second feature film premiered in Official Competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was awarded awith a honorable mension. He was responsible for the film production of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture where film directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Greenaway, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Victor Erice where included.

• Filmography
• 2018 - Hálito Azul (Blue Breath) – Documentário - 75'
• 2018 - Pixel Frio (Cold Pixel) – curta-metragem ficção - 15'
• 2016 - Ornamento & Crime (Ornament & Crime) – Longa-metragem ficção - 90'
• 2015 - O Guardador (The Keeper) – curta-metragem ficção - 15'
• 2014 - Cinema – Curta-metragem ficção - 9'- 35mm
• 2013 - 1960 – Documentário -70'- super 8mm
• 2012 - Estrada de Palha (Hay Road) – longa-metragem de ficção
• 2012 - Domesticada(Tamed) – curta-metragem ficção co-realizada com Paulo Furtado
• 2010 - Golias – curta-metragem documental -10'- Super 8mm
• 2008 - Corrente (Flow) – curta-metragem ficção -16'- 35 mm
• 2008 - Tebas- longa-metragem ficção - 75'
• 2007 - D. Afonso Henriques- O Conquistador – Documentário televisivo - 50'
• 2004 - Tempo Suspenso – curta-metragem experimental - 9'

Diogo Costa Amarante graduated in Law before making his debut with the documentary Jumate, screened in numerous international festivals and won various awards. In 2009, he participated in the Talent Campus of the Berlinale. His film The White Roses was screened at the Berlinale Shorts in 2014. Graduated in cinema at the Tisch School of Arts in New York. Won the Best Short Film Golden Bear with the Small Town at the Berlinale 2017.

• Filmography
• 2016 - Cidade Pequena (Small Town)
• 2014 - As Rosas Brancas
• 2012 - Down Here
• 2009 - Barcelona Film Project: We Have Legs/Time Flies
• 2009 - En enero, quizás
• 2007 - Jumate

Sandro Aguilar was born in 1974 in Portugal. He is a producer and editor. He studied cinema at the Superior School of Theater and Cinema and is co-founder of the film production company "O Som e a Fúria".

• Filmography
• 2017 - Mariphasa
• 2015 - Undisclosed Recipients
• 2015 - Bunker
• 2014 - False Twins
• 2013 - Dive: Approach And Exit
• 2011 - And They Went
• 2010 - Mercúrio
• 2010 - Voodoo
• 2007 - Arquivo
• 2005 - A Serpente
• 2003 - S/Título
• 2003 - From Head To Tail
• 2002 - Remains
• 2001 - Corpo E Meio
• 2000 - Sem Movimento
• 1997 - Estou Perto
• 1997 - Cadáver Esquisito

Cristina Pinheiro was born in Tours, France, where her parents settled down after leaving Portugal. She grew up with a double culture that conditioned his love for language. She began her career as an actress and in 2002 made her first short film, Marina Death. In 2012, she makes the short film Liga, produced by Easy Tiger with interpretation by Helena Noguerra and Nanou Garcia. Menina is her first feature film. The argument is selected at the International Festival of Arguments before it takes place in the summer of 2016 with a French-Portuguese cast comprising names such as Nuno Lopes, Beatriz Batarda and young Naomi Biton.

Henrik Ferrara, Inês Silva and Jéssica Monteiro were university graduates at the School of Media, Arts and Design from 2015 to 2018. They became friends earlier on and worked on various academic projects together. In 2018, during the Frontal Shot Residency, they got together professionally for the first time to produce the documentary Domus. Currently they are working in the fields of video, photography, film, performance and installation in the metropolitan area of Porto and Braga.

With different experiences, Martina Tzvetan, Mariana Quaresma and Vasco Silva joined in together at the Frontal Shot residency in Melgaço to continue their practice in documentary cinema. They sought pathways and solutions that would respond to the various challenges that have been set forth. They are currently working in different fields. Vítor Hugo was responsible for the editing, sound mixing and colour correction of the documentary.

Maria Inês Rodrigues was born in Porto in 1994. She currently attends a Master's Degree in Directing at Escola de Cinema. This is her first film. Joana Baptista is a videographer and post-producer of documentary video and video clips. This is her latest project. Diego Zon is a director and screenwriter. His latest film, Running Waters, competed at the Berlinale Shorts in the 66th edition of the festival.

Filipe Moreira, Multimedia Course level IV, from the Multimedia Institute; Graduated in Sound and Image at UCP Porto; Instrument, Musical Training and Joint Classes degree by the Musical Conservatory of Porto; Teacher and Multi-Instrumentalist. João Dias was born in 1996 in the city of Chaves. He was a man of Sciences until he discovered Photography and Cinema. Currently finishing his Degree in Sound and Image at the Catholic University. Vasco Trabulo Bäuerle was born in 1998 in Porto. Graduated in Sound and Image from the School of Arts at Catholic University of Porto. He is currently finishing his final degree project, a fiction film titled “Auspice”.

They met at the Film Residency and fate determined they would get together to make a film. They have in common the fact that they both come from areas other than the cinema and image - Luis worked in marketing for several years, before turning to photography, his true passion, as his main activity. Emanuel works in IT and directed a couple of short films during the master's degree course that is nearing completion. They both have a special liking for stories and coincide in the passion they place in their artistic representation.