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Ibrahim Snoopy is a Sudanese filmmaker and cinematographer working recently for ARTE, BBC and The Washington Post, as well as music videos, commercials, and shorts. Notable works include the feature documentaries *Khartoum Offside*, which won Best Documentary at the Carthage Film Festival, and From Argentina to Sudan, as well as the award-winning shorts Serotonin and Journey to Kenya . This is his second feature.

Anas Saeed a Sudanese media maker, started working as a video journalist for the independent media house, Ayin Network. He has produced several reportage works for international media that focus on human rights issues affecting different communities across Sudan. His work for Ayin Media has focused on covering culture and the recent war. His latest work is Five Meals of Resistance, soon to be released at festivals.

Rawia Alhag  is a Sudanese filmmaker and screenwriter now based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on women's and children's issues, shedding light on the experiences and struggles of Sudanese people both within their communities and in the diaspora. She directed the award-winning short film "Out of Coverage" , which won Best Foreign Film at the Juba Film Festival.

Timeea Mohamed Ahmed is a Sudanese director, editor & producer based in East Africa. His work explores non-narrative experimental & documentary. He directed short films, including Saddari (2023) and Is it War? (2024). Other credits include Flower of Sinkat (2018), Hope Journey (2021), as well as advocacy and commercial campaigns. His films center on the culture and struggles of Sudan.

Phil is the co-director of award-winning indie film collective Native Voice Films since 1998 and has directed and shot over 30 films for TV and cinema. His recent cinematic features as director/writer are THE BENGALI DETECTIVE (Sundance and Berlin premiere – HBO), LOVE HOTEL (Toronto premiere. Netflix / BBC Storyville), BETTY THEY SAY I'M DIFFERENT (IDFA premiere, ARTE / BBC / Amazon), THE CLEANER (FR2), AND THE SPIDER-MAN OF SUDAN (ARTE / GUARDIAN). He is the recipient of a British Grierson Award, a Rory Peck Award, and the Hinzpeter and Bayeux Calvados awards for his work in Sudan since 2004.

Cutting Through Rocks

Sara Khaki is the Grand Jury Award winner of the world cinema documentary category of Sundance Film Festival for her feature documentary, Cutting Through Rocks. Her co-directed film, Our Iranian Lockdown, streaming on the Guardian, received an IDA nomination. Her co-directed Netflix original, Convergence, received an Emmy nomination. A Chicken & Egg Films and Sundance Alumni, Sara is a director, producer, and editor with dedication to stories about gender equity.

Mohammadreza Eyni is the Grand Jury Award winner of the world cinema documentary category of Sundance Film Festival for his feature documentary, Cutting Through Rocks. A Sundance and Tribeca Alumnus, Mohammadreza is a  director, producer, and cinematographer,  whose career and cinematic approach bridges boundaries and elevates underrepresented voices, connecting diverse perspectives globally. A co-founder of Gandom Films Production L.L.C., Mohammmadreza’s works have earned IDA nomination and international recognition.

Emperor

Az 1987-ben Franciaországban született Marion Burger számos játékfilm díszlettervezője, többek között Houda Benyamina Divines (Caméra d'or 2016), Jérémy Trouilh és Fanny Liatard Gagarine (Cannes 2020) és legutóbb Léonor Serraille Mother and Son (Cannes 2022) című filmjének. Legutóbbiért megkapta a Fiatal Filmtechnikusok Díját. Rendezői debütálása a személyes története alapján készült Emperor című VR-élmény.

Az 1984-ben Franciaországban született Ilan 2008 óta dolgozik rendezőasszisztensként (többek között Noaz Deshe White Shadow, Lodge Kerrigan Rebecca H. és Bertrand Bonello Sarah Winchester című filmjeiben), miközben saját forgatókönyvírói és kliprendezői tevékenységet is folytat (Rone, Gaspar Claus).

Emperor

Born in France in 1987, Marion Burger is a production designer on several feature films including Divines by Houda Benyamina (Caméra d’or 2016), Gagarine by Jérémy Trouilh and Fanny Liatard (Cannes 2020) and more recently Mother and Son by Léonor Serraille (Cannes 2022). On this occasion, she has been awarded the Young Film Technician Prize for her work. Based on her personal story, Emperor marks her directorial debut.

Born in France in 1984, Ilan has been working as a first assistant director since 2008 (including Noaz Deshe’s White Shadow, Lodge Kerrigan’s Rebecca H., and Bertrand Bonello’s Sarah Winchester) while pursuing his own screenwriting and directing music videos (Rone, Gaspar Claus).

Mesék rólunk, nekik

Rand Beiruty író, rendező és a jordániai Ammánban működő Shaghab Films produkciós cég társalapítója. A babelsbergi Konrad Wolf Filmművészeti Egyetemen szerzett doktori fokozatot, itt a reprezentáció és részvételi filmezés kérdéseivel és gyakorlatával foglalkozott. Projektjeit nemzetközi platformokon mutatta be, és többek között a Tribeca Film Institute, a Mifa Animation du Monde, az Arab Cinema Center és a European Network of Young Cinema díjazta. Első egész estés dokumentumfilmje a Tell Them About Us (2024) a koppenhágai CPH:DOX-on debütált, majd a 64. Zlín nemzetközi filmfesztiválon megnyerte a legjobb fiataloknak szóló dokumentumfilm díját.

Tell Them About Us

Rand Beiruty is a writer, director, and co-founder of Shaghab Films, a production company based in Amman, Jordan. She holds a practice-based Ph.D. revolving around questions of representation and participatory filmmaking from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. She has pitched her projects on international platforms and received awards from, among others, the Tribeca Film Institute, Mifa Animation du Monde, the Arab Cinema Center, and the European Network of Young Cinema. Her debut feature documentary Tell Them About Us (2024) premiered at CPH:DOX and received the ECFA Award for Best European Feature Documentary for Young Audience at the 64th Zlín International Film Festival.

Karavánról és kutyákról

Askold Kurov 1974-ben született Üzbegisztánban. A moszkvai Marina Razbezhkina Filmiskolában szerzett diplomát dokumentumfilm-készítésből. 2012-ben ő volt az egyik rendezője a díjnyertes Winter, Go Away! című dokumentumfilmnek. Későbbi filmjei, a Leninland (2013), a Children 404 (2014) és A per (2017) szintén sikeresek voltak és számos fesztiválon vetítették őket. Munkái a kortárs Oroszország emberi jogi viszonyaival és társadalmi konfliktusaival foglalkoznak.

Of Caravan and the Dogs

Born in Uzbekistan in 1974. In 2010, he graduated in documentary filmmaking at the Marina Razbezhkina Film School in Moscow. In 2012 he was one of the directors of the award-winning documentary Winter, Go Away!. His next films Leninland (2013), Children 404 (2014) and The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017) won critical acclaim and screened at numerous festivals. His work focuses on human rights issues and social conflicts in contemporary Russia.

A Fidai Film

Kamal Aljafari palesztin rendező a kölni Médiaművészeti Akadémián folytatott tanulmányokat, jelenleg Berlinben él. Tanított a New York-i The New School és a berlini DFFB intézményeknél. A Columbia Egyetem Institute for Ideas and Imagination ösztöndíjasa. 2024-ben UNDR (2024) című filmjét beválogatták az IFFR programjába. A Fidai Film (2024) filmje a Visions du Réel fesztiválra került be, ahol a Burning Lights szekcióban a zsűri nagydíját is begyűjthette. Aljafari jelenleg egy Jaffában játszódó játékfilm előkészületein dolgozik.

A Fidai Film

Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln and currently lives in Berlin. He has taught filmmaking at The New School in New York and the DFFB in Berlin. He is a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination of Columbia University. In May 2024, IndieLisboa dedicated a retrospective to his work. In 2024 his film UNDR (2024) was selected at IFFR and A Fidai Film (2024) at Visions du Réel, where it won the Grand Jury Prize Burning Lights Competition. Aljafari is currently working on a fiction film to be shot in Jaffa.

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