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Agnès Varda was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1928. She studied at the École du Louvre and took evening classes in photography at the École de Vaugirard. She became a photographer for Jean Vilar when he founded the Avignon Theater Festival in 1948, then for the Théâtre National Populaire at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. She held her first personal exhibition in 1954 in the courtyard of her home. That same year, Agnès Varda made the move to cinema without any formal training. She founded Ciné Tamaris (a cooperative) to produce and direct her first feature, La Pointe Courte. She directed short films and features, both fiction and documentaries. In 2003, she began her third career as a visual artist at the Venice Biennale.

Amíg apa haza nem ér

Mari Gulbiani grúz rendező és forgatókönyvíró. A Tbilisi Állami Egyetemen filológiát, az Állami Színház és Filmművészeti Egyetemen pedig rendezést tanult. 2006 és 2010 között az Ateliers Varan párizsi filmakadémián további tapasztalatokkal mélyítette tudását. 2007-ben megalapította a Midifilm nevű produkciós irodáját. A tbilisi CineDoc dokumentumfilm fesztiválon programszervezője, és a CineDoc Ifjúsági részlegének szekció kordinátora volt.

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Jan Kounen holland rendező, forgatókönyvíró és producer. Számos rövidfilmet, játékfilmet és dokumentumfilmet készített már és nemrég három VR szemüveggel nézhető produkciót is forgatott: Ayahuasca - Kosmik Journey, Seven Lives és -22.7°C címmel.

The Real Thing

Benoit Felici is a French-Italian filmmaker. He graduated from the Zelig Film School in Italy. His film, Unfinished Italy, is a journey into the remains of incomplete buildings and infrastructure scattered throughout rural Italy. In The Real Thing, Benoit focuses on architectural replicas, and explores the reality of life in fake surroundings.

Still Recording

Born in Syria, Saeed Al Batal is a citizen journalist, photographer and filmmaker. He has led numerous trainings in photography and news reporting, and has worked as a reporter on current affairs in Syria for agencies, radio stations and institutions worldwide. He is one of the founders of the online gallery, Sam Lenses, and the Humans of Syria project.

Born in Syria, Ghiath Ayoub is a filmmaker and visual artist. He graduated from the faculty of Fine Arts at the University Damascus in 2013. He co-founded a number of open spaces across Beirut. Ayoub also participates in various civil society initiatives, such as Humans of Syria, graphic design work and films that have been featured online and in exhibition spaces globally.

Tiny Souls

A Jordanian director and producer with Palestinian roots, Dina Naser graduated with a BA in Art and Graphic Design. In 2013, she received the DocNomads scholarship to pursue a Master's Degree in Documentary Filmmaking. Naser’s devotion for documenting is inspired by seemingly ordinary people and stories that spring from her homeland in Palestine.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - Sea Wash
2015 - One Minute

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Jan Kounen is a director, screenwriter and producer born in the Netherlands. He has made several short films, feature films, documentaries and recently released three VR experiences: Ayahuasca – Kosmik Journey, Seven Lives and -22.7°C.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (fiction feature)
2004 - Other Worlds
1997 - Dobermann (fiction feature)

Before Father Gets Back

Mari Gulbiani is a Georgian film director and screenplay writer. She studied philology at Tbilisi State University, and film directing at the Theatre and Film State University. From 2006 until 2010, she fine-tuned her experience at the Parisian film school, ‘Ateliers Varan’. In 2007, she founded the production company, Midifilm. She has worked in the program department of the CineDoc Tbilisi documentary film festival, and for CineDoc Young as a section coordinator.

Selected filmography: 
2013 - I Am At Home, You Are On the Way (feature fiction)
2013 - The Shelter
2011 - High Above the Clouds

Daguerréotypes

Agnès Varda was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1928. She studied at the École du Louvre and took evening classes in photography at the École de Vaugirard. She became a photographer for Jean Vilar when he founded the Avignon Theater Festival in 1948, then for the Théâtre National Populaire at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. She held her first personal exhibition in 1954 in the courtyard of her home. That same year, Agnès Varda made the move to cinema without any formal training. She founded Ciné Tamaris (a cooperative) to produce and direct her first feature, La Pointe Courte. She directed short films and features, both fiction and documentaries. In 2003, she began her third career as a visual artist at the Venice Biennale.

The Gleaners and I

Agnès Varda was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1928. She studied at the École du Louvre and took evening classes in photography at the École de Vaugirard. She became a photographer for Jean Vilar when he founded the Avignon Theater Festival in 1948, then for the Théâtre National Populaire at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. She held her first personal exhibition in 1954 in the courtyard of her home. That same year, Agnès Varda made the move to cinema without any formal training. She founded Ciné Tamaris (a cooperative) to produce and direct her first feature, La Pointe Courte. She directed short films and features, both fiction and documentaries. In 2003, she began her third career as a visual artist at the Venice Biennale.

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