Buenos Aires, 1952. Directed more than 15 documentaries (short and feature films and series). Directed the fiction and documentary film department at Argentina’s public television between 2006 and 2017. Worked as director of photography and cameraman in the local film industry. His last feature documentary, Damiana Kryygi (2015), received the Best Feature-Length Film Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology’s Film and Media Festival (USA) in 2015.

Gisela Casimiro (1984) is a writer, artist and activist. She published Erosão (poetry), wrote chronicles for Hoje Macau, Buala, Contemporânea and Setenta e Quatro and was invited for literary festivals in Macau, Turkey, Germany, Mozambique and Portugal. She performed at CCB, TBA and Teatro São Luiz and held exhibitions at Armário, ZDB, Balcony, Casa do Capitão and the National Museum of Ethnology. She created and moderates the series of talks “Temos de falar”.

Artistic director at Punto de Vista International Film Festival and film department coordinator at the Madrid Fine Arts Circle. Has curated programmes for institutions such as the Spanish Cinematheque, Museum Reina Sofía and Moreira Salles Institute. Has published texts and interviews in magazines such as Trafic, Lumière and Caimán, where he’s part of the editorial board. Teaches at the Elías Querejeta Film School (San Sebastián) and Master LAV (Madrid).

Studied film at the Institute of Diffusion Arts (Belgium) from 1971 to 1974. Worked as assistant editor in the film Deus, Pátria, Autoridade. Was a founding member of the cooperative Virver, working as a producer and assistant director for several medium-length films and in Bom Povo Português [The Good People of Portugal], by Rui Simões, until she left in 1981. Between 1979 and 1985, she produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay for her film, O Movimento das Coisas.

Vika Kirchenbauer is an artist, filmmaker, writer and music producer who examines violence as it attaches to different forms of visibility and invisibility. Her award-winning work has been presented at, among others, the Rhineland and Westphalia Art Association, the Tainan Art Museum, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Berlin International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.

Mathilde Rouxel is a researcher and an independent curator, specialized in Arab cinema. Her PhD researches deal with struggling cinema made by women in Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia since 1967. In 2015, she published the first monograph about the French-Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, of whom she was a close collaborator, and she directs the Jocelyne Saab’s Friends Association, which aims to enhance her artistic heritage.

Has a degree in communication sciences—film and television—from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Nova University of Lisbon. Directed several documentary and short experimental films that were screened and awarded at national and international film festivals. Works as editor and script supervisor since 2000. Founded the production company Cedro Plátano in 2013. Participated in Emerging Producers 2019, organised by the Jihlava Film Festival.

Filmmaker and screenwriter. Curator at the Brazilian Cinematheque from 2012 to 2020, with experience in the preservation, expedition and documentation departments. Director and writer of A Terra segue Azul quando saio do Trabalho (2021), Estamos todos na Sarjeta, mas alguns de nós olham as Estrelas (2020), Minha Única Terra é na Lua (2017) and A Vida do Fósforo não é Bolinho, Gatinho (2014). Distinguished with Filmes do Caixote at Mostra Tiradentes 2020.

Video maker, artist and curator. She was guest curator for Doc Fortnight at MoMA/NY for 2017-2020. Other past positions include: curator for Lincoln Center’s NY Video Festival and co-director of the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History. She is on the faculty in the MFA Art Practice department at the School of Visual Arts/NYC. Her most recent film, Following the Thread, is soon to have distribution.

Born in Japan, in 1975, he studied photography at the European Design Institute (Turin), interned at the photo agency Magnum (Paris) and has a post-graduate degree in dramaturgy and film direction from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He was selected for the 100 Young Italian Artists – FURLA per l’arte Award 2000. His film Wakasa won the Best Short Film Image Award at IndieLisboa 2011. His feature film Ouro Negro is under production.

Editor of the Modern Times Review, the European documentary magazine, and of Ny Tid, a 100 pages Norwegian quarterly book magazine. He has an education in philosophy and information technology from Oslo, San Francisco and New York, and he makes documentaries.

Degree in biochemistry and master’s degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Coimbra. PhD in occupational safety and health from the University of León (Spain). Director of services for the promotion of occupational safety and health at the Authority for Working Conditions (ACT). Researcher, professor and lecturer with several publications in this field and member of Portuguese and European task forces.

Has a PhD in cinema, and is a film critic, festival programmer, film curator and lecturer. Programmer, curator and scientific coordinator of educational projects at Musil – Museum of Industry and Labour (Brescia) and member of the projects evaluation committee of the Piemonte Doc Film Fund. Curated works by and published essays on Danielle Arbid, Giovanni Cioni, Heddy Honigmann, Marcel Lozinski, Sergei Loznitsa, Kazuhiro Soda, Ermanno Olmi and others.

Yulia Lokshina was born in Moscow and studied documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich. In her work, she explores non-fictional narrative forms, societal structures and their marginalized figures, social and economic dependencies and groups at risk of various kind. She enjoys working in open formations with artist friends and she started an artistic PhD on documentary adaptation.

Born in 1989, she is a journalist and film critic. She completed a degree in communication sciences, specialising in journalism, from the University of Porto in 2010, the year in which she started a career in journalism. She worked at the newspapers Público and i. She is the editor of the culture section at the weekly newspaper Novo since 2021.

Laura Marques has been working in documentary film, visual arts and improvised music. Her first documentary film, Vacas e Rainhas [Cows and Queens], was screened in several festivals and won several awards, including the INATEL Foundation Award at Doclisboa 2018. The film is the result of her experience as a keeper for the Herens breed of cattle in the Swiss Alps. Ai prefera [Would You Rather], her second short film, premiered at Visions du Réel in 2020.

Bachelor in social sciences from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and master in ethnic and African studies from the State University of Bahia (Brazil). PhD candidate in musical sciences (ethnomusicology) at the Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal). Researcher in the field of ethnomusicology at ARPAC – Institute for Social and Cultural Research (Mozambique) since 2007. Liaison officer for the International Council for Traditional Music in Mozambique since 2018.

Has a degree in law (University of Coimbra) and film (Lisbon Theatre and Film School – ESTC). As of 1990, worked as script supervisor and assistant with Fernando Lopes, César Monteiro, Cunha Telles, Catherine Breillat and Fernando Trueba, among others. Directed 5 films. As a screenwriter, was awarded for Mais Tarde (2001) and Raiva (2019), and won the Great Prize for New Theatre Texts 2018 for the play Bro. Teaches scriptwriting at ESTC.

Film critic, screenwriter and film director. Curated the film department at Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. Teaches at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Last publication: Cinema e História: Aventuras Narrativas (Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, 2018). He’s currently one of the critics at the newspaper Diário de Notícias, and he collaborates with the TV broadcaster Sic Notícias and the radio station Antena 1.

Assistant director. Co-founder of the film club at the Lycée français Charles Lepierrein Lisbon. Worked with Fernando Lopes, Luigi Magni, Fellini, Lauro António, Joaquim Leitão, Clive Donner, Franklin J. Schaffner, Gerard Jugnot, Bertrand Tavernier, Patrice Chéreau, José Fonseca e Costa, Fernando Lopes, Joaquim Leitão, Luís Galvão Teles and Maria de Medeiros, among others. As of 1996, also works in the shooting of commercials.

Working predominantly with film and video, she holds a bachelor’s degree in cinematography and media from the Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania) and a master’s degree in film from the Syracuse University (New York). Her films were screened and awarded at various international film festivals such as IDFA (Amsterdam), True/False, Doclisboa and Doc Edge. In 2017, she was named one of the “25 new faces of independent cinema” by Filmmaker magazine.

Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, Croatia. He graduated in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and in philosophy, sociology and comparative literature also in Zagreb. His work has been shown at international events such as IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Guanajuato IFF and Viennale and at the Museum of the Moving Image (New York). More info: www.igorbezinovic.net.

Has a degree from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Worked as script supervisor or assistant director for António Campos, Margarida Gil, Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro and Pierre-Marie Goulet, among others. Co-founded Os Filhos de Lumière (2000), which organises film introduction workshops. Portuguese coordinator for the international programmes Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse, CinEd and Shortcut. Directed several short and medium-length films.

Has a doctorate in audio-visual communication from the University of Vigo. Producer at Filmika Galaika, a Galician production company specialising in authorial cinema that produced the latest works by Lois Patiño and Matías Piñeiro (Sycorax, 2021), Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado (They Carry Death, 2021), Eloy Domínguez Serén (The Bodies, 2020), Eloy Enciso (Endless Night, 2019) and Jessica Sarah Rinland (Those that, at a Distance, Resemble Another, 2019).

Franco-Brazilian artist and filmmaker. Works between France and Brazil. Master’s degree in photography and video art and post-graduation at Le Fresnoy (France). Doctorate on the use of documents in contemporary art from EESI (France). Involved in photography, cinema, video art, writing and performance. One of the main focus of his work is otherness and the need to build an anchorage, be it territorial, historical, bodily or identity-related.

He is a journalist, film critic, festival programmer and translator. He is the correspondent for the territories of former Yugoslavia at Screen International, senior writer at Cineuropa and contributing editor for IDFA’s website. He is a programmer for ZagrebDox and Rab Film Festival (Croatia), Skopje Film Festival (Macedonia) and FeKK (Slovenia), and contributes as guest programmer and advisor for numerous international film festivals around Europe.

Alex Palma (Communication Design)
João Tavares (Film and Television)
Lorenzo Pardell (Sound Design)
Marta Laureano (Film and Television)
Rita Bronze (Photography)