Franciaország

Militantropos

Alina Gorlova is a Ukrainian film director. She graduated from Karpenko- Kary Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film & Television. She co-founded a production company, TABOR. Her documentary, No Obvious Signs, won the MDR film award for Best Eastern European Film at DokLeipzig.

Yelizaveta Smith is a film director, co-founder of TABOR and a member of the Ukrainian and European Film Academy. Her documentary, School Number 3, co-directed by Georg Genoux, won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury at the Berlinale 2017.

Simon Mozghovyi is a Ukrainian film director. He studied Cinema and Television Arts at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, and then went on to study an advanced-level course in dramaturgy in Kyiv, where he began acting.

Under the Flags, the Sun

Juanjo Pereira is a filmmaker, researcher and producer whose work highlights interdisciplinary research through the creation of essay films and video installations. He is dedicated to researching the Paraguayan film archive, and his projects also use the dérive to examine modern infrastructures and everyday built landscapes. He serves as the artistic director and co-founder of the Asunción International Contemporary Film Festival. He has participated and won awards at festivals and markets such as: Hot Docs Forum, IDFA Bertha Fund, ARCHÉ, among others.

Mothers Without Parole

Sofia Fischer has made her commitment to women's causes the driving force of her professional and personal life. At Le Monde and in other publications, where she has been working as a journalist for eight years, she documents the fractures within society. Mothers Without Parole is her first film. Over the course of three years, she traveled across France, visiting prison visiting rooms to listen to the stories of mothers who had killed their children. Her aim was to better understand her own story, as well as those of all these women whom society continues to overlook.

With Hasan in Gaza

Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist. Aljafari has taught at The New School and DFFB in Berlin and was a Film Study Center fellow at Harvard. Currently a fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination. The feature film “A Fidai Film” (2024) was shown in over hundred festivals and won 15 international awards. His most recent work, “With Hasan in Gaza” (2025), premiered in the International Competition at Locarno Film Festival.

Cuba & Alaska

Yegor Troyanovsky is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He has solid professional experience in the audiovisual sector working in film production, television programs, advertising, and music videos on Ukrainian and American TV. Yegor is the author and film director of his first short documentary film Rear (participated in the VI Odesa International Film Festival). His first full-length documentary film Demon was a participant in XI Odesa International Film Festival and received the Fipresci award for the Best Film. Yegor Troyanovsky is also one of the creators of the critically-acclaimed historical documentary series: Collapse. How Ukrainians Destroyed the Evil Empire.

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.

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).

Lehallgatva

Oksana Karpovych Kijevben született ukrán-kanadai rendező, író és fotós. Első egész estés dokumentumfilmje a Don't Worry, the Doora Will Open 2019-es RIDM-en megnyerte a New Visions díjat és a torontói Hot Docs külön elismeréssel díjazta. Projektjeiben a hétköznapi emberek mindennapi életét és szóbeli történeteit vizsgálja, valamint azt, hogy az állami politika hogyan hatol be a magánszférába, befolyásolva az általa közelről dokumentált közösségeket. Karpovych az ukrajnai Kijev-Mohyla Akadémián végzett kulturális tanulmányok szakon, valamint a montreali Concordia Egyetemen filmgyártás szakon.

Intercepted

Oksana Karpovych is a Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer born in Kyiv. Her first feature documentary Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open won the New Visions Award at RIDM in 2019 and received a special mention at Hot Docs 2020. In her projects, Karpovych explores the everyday life and oral histories of ordinary people and how state politics intrude into the private sphere, influencing the communities she intimately documents. Karpovych is a Cultural Studies graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and a Film Production graduate of Concordia University in Montreal.

Oldalak

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