filmmakers
Adi Dohotaru
Adi Dohotaru is a debutant director from Cluj, Romania. He is a practitioner of Participatory Action Research methodology in his work and uses a Performative Anthropology technique that empowers his collaborators. He writes laws, poetry, does civic and environmental research. He is more of a character than a director from a utopian blueprint where divisions of labour disappear and art melts into life... the old failed endeavors of the avant-gardes.
Adina Brădeanu
Agniia Galdanova
Agniia Galdanova was born in Saint Petersburg in 1987. She studied Journalism and Film Directing. Her passion for non-fiction was stirred in 2016, upon meeting her future mentor Marina Razbezhkina at the DokLeipzig Festival.
Agnès Perrais
Agnès Perrais is an artist and researcher born in Paris. In her projects she uses a variety of stylistic approaches (collages, rayograms etc.) and explores the connections between politics and imagination, either through documentaries (’Ciompi’) or poetic short films (’Marin miroir,’ ’Navire’- co-directed with Lysa Heurtier Manzanares.) She is a member of several artistic collectives (L'Etna, La Poudrière, Le Navire Argo) and co-founder of the association ‘La Surface de dernière diffusion.’
Alexandra Diaconu
Alexandra Diaconu (b. 1996) studied Film Editing at the same university. Her short documentary ‘Whole Family’ was selected in Ji.hlava IDFF in 2023. She works as a trainer in film workshops for teenagers and as a teaching assistant at UNATC.
Boubacar Sangaré
Boubacar Sangaré is a filmmaker and author from Burkina Faso. He directed four short films and co-directed a feature documentary for TV. `A Golden Life` is his first feature documentary for cinema. He is currently developing several other projects: including the road movie documentary `Djéliya, Memory of Manding` (selected for La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde, in Cannes Film Festival 2022) and two feature-length fiction films: `Le nom qu’on te donne` and `Les dieux délinquants.`
Bronte Stahl
Bronte Stahl (1993) is a filmmaker from Westerly, RI, USA. He graduated from the European itinerant MFA program DocNomads and is an alumnus of the Flaherty Seminar Fellowship, IDFA Project Space, Eurodoc and Points North Fellowship. The films he directs including Puiet (2022), Terril (2019) and Lungs (2017) have premiered at festivals such as Venice Critics Week (Best Short Film), Rotterdam and DocLisboa, respectively. As a producer, he is compelled to elevate emerging international voices in non-fiction cinema. This work has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, DocSociety US, British Film Institute, and LEF Foundation, among others. His first feature as a producer, Rejeito (2023) by Pedro de Filippis, premiered at Cinéma du Réel and screened at HotDocs, Camden, IDFA and many others. Currently he holds a Fulbright scholarship to Romania in the field of filmmaking.
Daniel Kötter
Daniel Kötter is an international filmmaker and theater director. His works alternate between different media and institutional contexts and combine experimental film techniques with performative and documentary elements. They have been shown worldwide at numerous film and video art festivals, in galleries, theaters, and concert halls. Visual research leads him again and again to the African continent and the Middle East.
Elios Levy
Elios Levy is a transgender actor and author, trained at the Claude Mathieu theater school. He is part of several theater collectives and co-created with Louise Buleon Kayser the show Il faut bien Manger, which questions the relationship with norms and monstrosities.
Recently he worked with the director Alexander Zeldin in the theater show Une mort dans la famille.
Queer and feminist issues are at the heart of his artistic reflections, both in his research, his writing and the roles he chooses.
Eyal Sivan
Gergő Somogyvári
Gergő Somogyvári is a Budapest-based cinematographer and documentary director. After studying photography and journalism, he graduated in Cinematography from the University of Film and Drama (SZFE) 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.
Goran Dević
Goran Dević (b. in Sisak, 1971) studied Archeology and Law. In 2008 he graduated in Film and TV Directing from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts. His films won awards at festivals such as Pula, Prizren, Prague, Sarajevo, Oberhausen, Leipzig, Zagreb. Retrospectives of his documentaries were held at Arsenal Berlin, MAXXI, Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz, Beldocs, Zagreb. He founded the production company Petnaesta umjetnost.
Hrvoje Osvadić
In 2000, Hrvoje started working in the film industry. In 2007, he became co-owner and director of 15th Art Production (Petnaesta umjetnost), a company specializing in film and TV production in Zagreb, Croatia. He is the President of the Croatian Producer Association HRUP and is also an EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) producer. From 2024 member of European Film Academy EFA. He is also experienced in the production of international co-productions. He has produced over twenty films, including: “Seventh Heaven” – feature (2023) (also co-writer), “Baby Tooth” – short (2017), “Sunday” – short (2016), and documentary films: “What”s to be Done?” - feature documentary (2023) by Goran Dević, “The Building” - feature documentary (2022) by Goran Dević, “On the Water” - feature documentary (2018) by Goran Dević, “Steel Mill Café” - feature documentary (2017) by Goran Dević.
Kumjana Novakova
Born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana Novakova is a filmmaker, film curator, and lecturer with a background in Social Sciences. She is the co-founder, chief curator, and director of the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo. Between 2018-2021 she ran the Film Department of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Skopje. ‘Disturbed Earth’, the film she co-directed with G.C. Candi, was shortlisted for the Academy Awards and nominated for Best Feature-length Documentary by Doc Alliance.
Lucia Chicoș
Lucia Chicoș (b. 1998) is a young Romanian film director. Her fiction short ‘Contraindications’ was awarded 3rd prize in Cinéfondation at Cannes Film Festival in 2020. She is a teaching assistant at UNATC Bucharest, where she graduated in Film Directing.
Maciek Hamela
Maciek Hamela is a film and radio producer and director. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he has an MA in French Literature from the Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and he also studied Film Directing at École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (EICAR). Hamela is a longtime BBC Channel collaborator. As a radio producer, he received the Silver Melchior Radio Award for the Premiere of the Year 2018 in the Polish Radio Reporters National Competition.
Maryam Tafakory
Mihai Burcea
Istoric
Natan Castay
Natan Castay is a young director born in Brussels. He studied Filmmaking at IAD and is interested in both documentary and fiction.
Rebecca Hirneise
Rebecca Hirneise was born and raised in Mühlacker, a small town in southern Germany and has been living and working in Vienna for many years. She studied Media Art at the University for Art and Design in Karlsruhe, as well as Directing and Screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy. Her background also includes photography and experimental filmmaking.
Viera Čákanyová
Viera Čákanyová (b. 1980) studied Scriptwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU, Prague. Her feature debut, ‘FREM’ won the Best Debut Award at Elbe Dock festival. Her subsequent film, ’White on White’ won the main prize at Ji.hlava IDFF in 2020, as well as the GreenDox Award at Dokufest in Kosovo, the Czech Competition Award at One World in Prague, and was selected in the main competitions at the prestigious Sheffield DocFest and ZagrebDox.
