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Chagrin Valley

Growing up in the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and Switzerland, in 2014 Nathalie Berger completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics at Duke University (USA), and went on to earn a Master's Degree in Documentary Filmmaking from the Zurich University of Arts. In March 2019, she completed her first feature documentary film, Call Me Intern, about millennials striking back against unpaid internships. It won Best New Zealand Feature and Best Editing at DocEdge Film Festival 2019, as well as the Nigel Moore Youth Award at DOXA. As a director she often works alone, but also works on other people's documentaries as a cinematographer. Since 2022, she has worked as a teaching assistant in the Cinema Department at the University of Arts (HEAD) in Geneva.

Snajka: Diary of Expectations

Tea Vidović was born 1986, in Zagreb. She graduated with a BA in sociology and an MA from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She co-organized the photographic-visual-music exhibition What Is Balkan? – Balkan Bude, to raise awareness about the presence of migrants in the local community. In 2011 she enrolled in the informal training program, Peace Studies in Zagreb, and collaborated on research for the film We Wanted Workers, Instead We Got People, by Đuro Gavran. In 2013 she began Restart’s Documentary Film School and developed ideas for her first documentary film. She has been employed at the Centre for Peace Studies since 2012, working on the integration of migrants into immigrant communities and other migrant-related issues.

Light Falls Vertical

Efthymia Zymvragaki got her Master's Degree in Artistic Productions and Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and trained as a photographer at the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya. From the University of Crete, Greece, she got a degree in Psychology. She is an alumna of IDFAcademy 2020; Circle - Women's Doc Accelerator 2020; Acció producció - Dones Visuals 2021; LIM Development Angels; and dok.incubator 2022. She is attracted by social and gender issues and feels close to personal and sensitive approaches to complex and lesser known realities. She seeks to explore spaces of intimacy between and within people. She worked as a co-director of photography on the documentary Serás hombre by Isabel de Ocampo (2018) and was the DOP of the feature film Rocco tiene tu nombre by Angelo Orlando (2015). In 2015 she directed the documentary short Refrán. Light Falls Vertical is her first feature.

Last Call

From an early age, Noah Cohen was driven by a desire to make films. At the age of 21, he entered the CinéFabrique to work in production. There, he practiced directing both fiction and documentaries. He hopes to continue in this direction.

Who I Am Not

Tünde Skovrán was born in Transylvania, Romania. After graduating in 2005 from Babes Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) with a bachelor’s degree in drama, Tünde became a repertoire actress at the prestigious Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj-Napoca. In 2014, Tünde was invited to participate in the Sarajevo International Film Festival Talent Campus. She is a Berlinale Talent alumni. She made her movie debut in Puzzle (2013), for which she received the Best Actress in a Lead Role Award at two US film festivals. Presently, she lives in Los Angeles, where she was an observer at The Actors Studio West. In 2016 she created J.U.S.T. Toys, a pioneer, experimental theatre production company in Los Angeles. She produced and starred in acclaimed productions, the last of which opened off-Broadway in 2019, under the direction of Yuri Kordonsky. The documentary Who I Am Not is her first feature-length film as a director. As a work in progress, the film was awarded by Dok Incubator at IDFA.

Who I Could Possibly Be

Lia Lőrinczy completed her first degree in contemporary, fine art curation. Working as a freelance editor on television shows, she developed an interest in motion pictures. In 2020, she joined the Documentary Director MA program at the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Over the last two years, she has made more than five short documentaries, both jointly and independently.

Until Death

Gergely Mózes is a filmmaker based in Budapest. He is an assistant lecturer at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, a doctoral student at the University of Theater and Film Arts, and a stipend-receiving member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. He did his BA in film and media studies at Kaposvár University, and his MA in filmmaking at the Budapest Metropolitan University. He also has a degree in Film Theory from the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences. The animated historical documentary Until Death is his debut as a filmmaker.

I Won't Die

Asia Dér graduated as a documentary filmmaker in the DocNomads international MA programme. Her first feature-length film, Her Mothers (co-directed by Sari Haragonics), has been screened at international film festivals in over 30 countries and has won numerous awards, including Best Film at the DOKER Moscow International Film Festival and at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz. The film was co-produced with HBO and supported by the Sundance Institute. With her previous films, she participated in workshops at ZagrebDox Pro, CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, East Doc Platform, Cannes Docs and Docu Rough Cut Boutique. Her documentary film about the life of Lajos Kassák, Howling Like We Do (2022), was awarded the Best Director prize at the FilmArte Art Film Festival in Berlin in 2023. She is currently writing her PhD thesis and teaches in the DocNomads international MA programme. She is a member of the board of the Hungarian Documentary Association (MADOKE) and the Association of Film Artists.

Hatchery

Máté Fuchs is a documentary filmmaker from Hungary. He graduated from the University of Theater and Film Arts (Budapest, Hungary) in 2019. He started his DLA studies in 2021, at Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He has worked on a variety of films, documentaries, and other projects. He is a founding member of the Hungarian Documentary Association (MADOKE), as well as the Freeszfe Association.

Fairy Garden

Gergő Somogyvári is a Budapest-based cinematographer and documentary director. After studying photography and journalism, he graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) as a cinematographer in 2008. For the past 14 years, he has worked both on fiction and non-fiction projects as a DOP, and has directed 5 short- and mid-length documentaries, which were screened internationally on television and at festivals. In 2008, his experimental documentary, Carta Azulejo – Tile Mail, received the most prestigious national award, the Main Prize of the Hungarian Film Week. Fairy Garden is his first feature-length documentary.

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