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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.

Coexistence, My Ass!

Award-winning filmmaker Amber Fares directed Speed Sisters, Reckoning With Laughter, and We Are Ayenda, which won the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity Grand Prix for Entertainment. She co-directed Convergence: Courage Under Crisis. Fares is a Canadian of Lebanese origin based in New York.

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Basel Adra palesztin ügyvéd, újságíró és filmrendező Maszafer Jattából. Tizenöt éves kora óta aktivista és dokumentumfilmes, aki közösségének tömeges izraeli kitelepítése ellen küzd.

Hamdan Ballal palesztin fotós, rendező és Szuszjából. Több megszállásellenes emberi jogi csoportnál dolgozott kutatóként.

Yuval Abraham izraeli rendező és oknyomozó újságíró Jeruzsálemből.

Rachel Szor izraeli operatőr, vágó és rendező Jeruzsálemből.

No Other Land

Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta. He has been an activist and documentarian since 15, fighting against Israel's mass expulsion of his community.

Hamdan Ballal is a Palestinian photographer, filmmaker and farmer from Susya, and has worked as a researcher for several anti-occupation human rights groups.

Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist from Jerusalem.

Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor, and director from Jerusalem.

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.

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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Basel Adra palesztin ügyvéd, újságíró és filmrendező Maszafer Jattából. Tizenöt éves kora óta aktivista és dokumentumfilmes, aki közösségének tömeges izraeli kitelepítése ellen küzd.

Hamdan Ballal palesztin fotós, rendező és Szuszjából. Több megszállásellenes emberi jogi csoportnál dolgozott kutatóként.

Yuval Abraham izraeli rendező és oknyomozó újságíró Jeruzsálemből.

Rachel Szor izraeli operatőr, vágó és rendező Jeruzsálemből.

No Other Land

Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta. He has been an activist and documentarian since 15, fighting against Israel's mass expulsion of his community.

Hamdan Ballal is a Palestinian photographer, filmmaker and farmer from Susya, and has worked as a researcher for several anti-occupation human rights groups.

Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist from Jerusalem.

Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor, and director from Jerusalem.

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