Born in 1994. Graduate of film directing at Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). „Hello Grandma” is her graduation project. Author of several short feature and documentary films.

MAJA NOVAKOVIĆ (1987, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina) has completed her Bachelor's Degree and Masters at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She attended a film directing workshop at the Students’ City Cultural Centre Academic Film Centre in Belgrade. Currently Novakov ić is doing her PhD studies with registered thesis "Poetics of heritage in the works of Sergei Parajanov" at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She is a researcher at the Centre for Museology and Heritology at the same university, and a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Marlén Viñayo (Spain, 1987). Documentary filmmaker. She has lived in El Salvador since 2013, where she founded the production company La Jaula Abierta. "Cachada - The Opportunity" (2019), her debut feature documentary, won nine international awards, including the Audience Award at SXSW Film Festival and the Latitud Award at DocsBarcelona and was selected in more than 50 film festivals in Europe, America and Asia. "Unforgivable" (2020) is her second film and was awarded as Best Short Documentary at IDFA, Hot Docs, Slamdance, Sebastopol and Guanajuato Film Festival, and nominated for the IDA Documentary Awards.

After leaving France aged eighteen, Philippine Sellam lived, studied and worked in different places, including the Netherlands, Armenia, Australia, Cuba, and Argentina. In 2014, finished the Master’s degree in Sustainable Development and began studying Cinematography and Documentary Filmmaking in Argentina. Philippine created various short films, including ‘War, chalk, time / Recovered absences’ and ‘El Roma’. Currently, she is editing my first feature length documentary, with material shot over several years in a marginal neighbourhood of the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

Graduated from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he began his career as a film critic, co-founder and co-director of the magazine A Cuarta Parede. In 2010 he is a member of the Júri da Mostra de Venecia. The following year he moves to Stockholm, where he shoots the shorts Pettring (2013) and No novo céio (2014). In 2014 he films the mediometraxe Jet Lag and in the following two years he completes the feature No cow on the ice (2015), premiered in Visions du Réel, and two more short films: Yellow brick road (2016) and Rust (2016). In 2018, his feature film Hamada (2018) premieres in IDFA.

Rui Esperança was born in Viana do Castelo in 1991. Graduated in Film by the National Theatre and Film School in Lisbon, he is the author of a body of work that most recently includes “The Outsiders” (IndieLisboa; 2019), “18” (Curtas Vila do Conde; 2019), among others. He was assistant director to Joaquim Sapinho between 2013 and 2015 and a member of the YEAD Project (Young European Cultural Audience Development) that took place between 2016 and 2019.

Mikhail Gorobchuk was born on 04.06.1988 in Novokuznetsk, Russia. In 2010 graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), the Faculty of Cinematography. In 2007 he received the President's grant for talented youth. In 2013 he received the National Award in the field of documentary film and television "Laurel Branch" in the category "Best professional cinematographer".

Born in Dubai, Mahdi Fleifel lives and works between Denmark, England and Greece. A graduate of the UK’s National Film & Television School, he studied Fiction Directing under Stephen Frears and Pawel Pawlikowski. In 2010 he founded the London based production company Nakba FilmWorks with Irish producer Patrick Campbell. Fleifel’s critically acclaimed debut feature, A world not ours, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received over 30 awards, including the Berlinale Peace Prize, and the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes. He was named Best New Nordic Voice at Nordisk Panorama, and received the New Talent Award at CPH:DOX in 2013. In 2016 Fleifel won a Silver Bear for A MAN RETURNED. His follow up, A drowning man, was selected in the Official Competition at Cannes, and was nominated for a BAFTA. His last film, I signed the petition, won Best Documentary Short at IDFA and was nominated for the 2018 European Film Awards.

Ana Maria Gomes is a Franco-Portuguese artist and filmmaker, born in 1982 in France. She lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris and went on to further study at Le Fresnoy, specializing in video art. Gomes’s work today focuses on the role of fiction in the construction of personal identities; her main artistic interest revolves around her inner circle and family in particular. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and screened in international festivals (Hors Piste at the Centre Pompidou, Gaîté Lyrique, Jeu de Paume, Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris, French and Portuguese Cinemathèque, etc.), it has received support from artistic institutions including the G.R.E.C, the Gulbenkian Foundation, SCAM, DRAC or the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, and it is part of public collections such as the French National Contemporary Art Fund Collection (FNAC), the National Bpi Catalogue (Images en Bibliothèques), the National French Library (BnF), the collection of the Casa de Velazquez.

Abolfazl Talooni is an Iranian filmmaker. He studied at the Arts University of Tehran in Iran and at the National Film and Television School in the UK. Alongside making documentary films, he is an established editor in London.

Alex Evstigneev was born and grew up in Shatura, Russia. He has been studying Documentary Filmmaking at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (also known as VGIK), course of Viktor Lisakovich, and Alexey Geleyn. His student film The Track premiered at Dok Leipzig in 2019, the festival circle of the next documentary The Golden Buttons was launched on Visions du Reel in 2020. Recently, Alex has been working on an animated documentary Mom’s Hair.

Thelyia Petraki is a film director, script writer and an anthropologist. She graduated from CAL-ARTS (USA) with a BA in Film, and from University College of London (UK) with an MA in Visual & Material Culture - dept. of Social Anthropology.