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Olha Zhurba is a Ukrainian film director, editor and screenwriter. Her short fiction film Dad’s Sneakers (2021) premiered at the Locarno FF and later won awards at many international festivals. Outside (2022) is her debut documentary, which premiered at CPH:DOX and HOT DOCS and won the Willy Brandt award at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin and later the Japan Prize Award of Honor. She was also the editor of the festival hits and award-winning documentary films This Rain Will Never Stop (2021) and Home Games (2018).

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.

Mati Diop's diverse film work since the 2000s has established the director as a representative of a new wave of African and Afro-diasporic culture. Her feature film Atlantics won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2019. She sees cinema as a tool of reappropriation to restore lost images, question degrading colonial representations and invent new heroes and heroines.

Ado Hasanović is a Bosnian-Italian film director based in Rome. He graduated from the Sarajevo Film Academy as a director in 2013 and furthered his education at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, specializing as a director. In 2017, he completed a Master's in Dramaturgy as a guest student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. His short films have received worldwide festival selections and won numerous international awards. Ado is also the creator of "Cortovisioni - How to Make a Short Film," a workshop format where he imparts knowledge on creating a short film from the initial idea to post-production. He recently completed his debut documentary, My Father's Diaries (2024), produced by Palomar (Italy) & Mediawan (France).