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A karmester

Bernadette Wegenstein osztrák származású, az amerikai Baltimore-ban élő nyelvész, szerző és elismert dokumentumfilm-készítő. Munkáiban a feminizmust ötvözi az emberközpontú történetmeséléssel. Nyelvészetből doktorált, és jelenleg a John Hopkins Egyetemen oktat médiatudományt. Eddig négy dokumentumfilmet rendezett, úgymint a Made Over in America, a See You Soon Again, a The Good Breast és a The Conductor című filmeket.

Tearless

Gina Kim is a writer and director whose five feature films and works of video art have screened at over 150 prestigious international film festivals and venues such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance, as well as MoMa, Centre Pompidou, and the Smithsonian. Praised by Le Figaro as a “fearless feminist who conceals an extreme sensitivity,” Kim’s Invisible Light (2003) was selected as one of the 10 best films of 2003 by Film Comment. Never Forever (2007), starring Jung-woo Ha and Vera Farmiga, was the first co-production between the United States and South Korea. Kim’s latest work Bloodless (2017) won the Best VR Story Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, followed by international acclaim and numerous awards and nominations. Kim’s films have been theatrically released to critical acclaim in Europe, Asia, and the US. Kim is a professor at UCLA.

Bloodless

Gina Kim is a writer and director whose five feature films and works of video art have screened at over 150 prestigious international film festivals and venues such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance, as well as MoMa, Centre Pompidou, and the Smithsonian. Praised by Le Figaro as a “fearless feminist who conceals an extreme sensitivity,” Kim’s Invisible Light (2003) was selected as one of the 10 best films of 2003 by Film Comment. Never Forever (2007), starring Jung-woo Ha and Vera Farmiga, was the first co-production between the United States and South Korea. Kim’s latest work Bloodless (2017) won the Best VR Story Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, followed by international acclaim and numerous awards and nominations. Kim’s films have been theatrically released to critical acclaim in Europe, Asia, and the US. Kim is a professor at UCLA.

Mom's Clothes

The Territory

Alex Pritz is a director and cinematographer whose work focuses on humanity’s relationship with the natural world. His process relies on a participatory filmmaking model, in which everyone is encouraged to pick up a camera. The Territory is his first feature film.

All That Breathes

Shaunak Sen is a filmmaker and film scholar based in New Delhi, India. Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at major international film festivals (including DOK Leipzig, DMZ Docs and the Taiwan International Documentary Festival), and won six international awards. Shaunak received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019), the Catapult Film Fund (2020), the Charles Wallace Grant, the Sarai CSDS Digital Media Fellowship (2014), and the Films Division of India Fellowship (2013). He was also a visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018), and has published academic articles in Bioscope, Widescreen and other journals.

Riotsville, U.S.A.

Sierra Pettengill’s films have played at Sundance, Locarno, True/False, on PBS, CNN, Netflix, and in festivals around the world. She produced the Oscar-nominated Cutie and the Boxer, and in 2018 was a Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow. Pettengill is an archivist for many artists, including Jim Jarmusch and Adam Pendleton. She is also a board member of Screen Slate.

Fragments of Paradise

Infinity According to Florian

Oleksiy Radynski (Ukraine, 1984) is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. After studying film theory, he took part in several film education experiments, including the Home Workspace Program (Askhal Alwan, Beirut), and Labor in a Single Shot, by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann. His award-winning short films have been screened at Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Docudays IFF, DOK Leipzig, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), e-flux (New York), S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin), and International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York). Infinity According to Florian is his first feature-length film.

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