Simon Ripoll-Hurier (born in Mont Saint-Aignan in 1985) holds degrees from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Rouen, as well as a Master’s in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po Paris. Bridging music and visual arts, his work revolves around practices of listening and transmission through voice. He is a co-founder of *DUUU, an …
Miriam Martín has dedicated her entire adult life and part of the previous one to cinema. First as a spectator, then as a programmer in several institutions: Museo Reina Sofía, MUSAC, CA2M, La Casa Encendida or the international documentary film festival Punto de Vista. For almost six years she organised the Chantal film club, a …
Kumjana Novakova is a filmmaker, working also as a film curator and lecturer. Originally born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006. Her formal education combines international relations, cultural and social research studies in Sofia, Sarajevo, Bologna and Amsterdam. In 2006 she co-founded the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival …
Daniel Mann is a London-based Israeli filmmaker and writer. Mann’s feature films were screened in festivals such as the Berlinale, Rotterdam, IDFA, Hong Kong and Cinema du réel. Combining found footage with on-location filmmaking, Mann’s films often explore colonial imaginaries and the military occupation of land and natural resources. Mann is the author of the …
Born in 1985 in the Paris region, Théodora Barat is a visual artist and a director. She studied at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes before joining the Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains and was a resident at the Villa Medici last year. She’s now a teacher at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes. Her work, around …
Through the creation of documentary films, installations, and performances, Nicolas Bailleul’s work is defined by the use, appropriation, collection, and exploration of platforms, virtual worlds, connected spaces, and the web’s uncertain logics and geographies. By attempting to concretely depict what unfolds in supposedly unreal, invisible, and inaccessible places, he aims to bring forth contemporary issues …
Clémentine Roy is based in Berlin where she develops a visual artistic practice and various collaborations. Between ethnography and science-fiction, her film Carcasse presents a community of men and animals working on a deserted island from the relics of a lost world. It was shown at Berlinische Galerie and selected in various festivals such as …
Tamer Hassan has screened his films internationally including at Viennale, Art of the Real, Mar Del Plata, Punto de Vista and Sheffield DocFest. He has been a fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar and participated in the Berlinale Talents program. He currently teaches at Parsons School of Design.
Nicolas Boone : I come from a fine arts background. I have made around thirty short films in France and abroad. Always with a strong desire for life, my films cross territories and are inhabited by multiple actors, crowds of extras and often various animals. They are screened at international film festivals and shown as …
Mahdy Abo Bahat and Abdo Zin Eldin, Egyptian artist-filmmakers from Cairo, have a 10-year practice rooted in sound and image through audio field recordings and street videography. Their fixation with moving-image stems from a need to document whilst witnessing the Egyptian upheaval in 2011. Now they are committed to their documentary practice by assembling hauntologies …
Yana Sad was born in 1986. Graduated from the Moscow School of New Cinema as a film director. Participated as a director and producer in international Labs and Markets. Took part in the FilmSchoolFestMunich 2022 (Germany) as a jury member. Lived and worked in Russia as a director of fiction and documentary films, a creative …