Lucía Alonso
Lucía Alonso Santos studied cinematography at the Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuales de Cataluña (ESCAC), where she graduated specializing in Direction of Photography. She focuses her interest on film craftsmanship and on the creation of new languages and aesthetics, which have led her to develop work that integrates photography and nonfictional elements as well as experimentation with film, light, video clips, and digital techniques. Her video essay In Memoriam was selected for Filmadrid (2020) and distributed by MUBI. Her work deals with the relation between identity and space, embodied forcefully in Who witnessed the temples fall, her first feature film. Currently, she’s pursuing a Master’s in Filmmaking at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, while developing her next film, and working on the experimental piece Mis manos en tu pelo, pelo.

Alba Bresolí 
Alba Bresolí has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Filmmaking and a Master’s in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University. El día que volaron la montaña (2022), her short documentary, was nominated for the Gaudí Awards and screened at national and international film festivals such as IDFA, Documentamadrid, Sheffield DocFest, Malaga, D'A Film Festival, among others. El bon auguri is her fourth short film, which again deals with the resistance of rural life. She combines her work as a film-maker with artistic projects such as the video installation Illa de Carn on the problems caused by purines, as well as programming at film festivals such as DocsBarcelona, GoShort, Memorimage, and Mostra VOC.

Juliana Brousse
Juliana Brousse is a young French director and photographer. She studied literature and history prior to completing a Masters in Film Studies specializing in Documentary at the University of Paris VII.  She previously worked in the image department at La Fémis in 2018. She works with the Curry-Vavart collective's Argentique Laboratory, le Carré rouge, and the artist collective Le Doc in Paris. Through her photographs and films, she is interested in the working gestures of boatmen, construction workers, sextons, and so on. Construction and deconstruction sites, as well as materials and their origins, are all part of her research. She is currently completing Les Amarrés, her first medium-length film produced by Unexpected Films.

Dario Campo
Dario is a white, able-bodied, queer film-maker based in Berlin. Previously working as an editor of German television, since 2021 they study documentary filmmaking at the self-organized filmArche where they mostly direct and produce their own films. Their first short documentary, Break the Binary (2023), focuses on the lives of three young non-binary people on their gender identity journeys. Their upcoming documentary Willst du mit mir sterben? (Come Die with Us?) is about (co-)existing and dying within the queer community. Their subsequent film, Planet Anthurium (2024), proposes new forms of sexual representations and explores the world of queer smut movies. When not watching dreamy coming-of-age films, Dario loves to dance, transform people's hair, or explore Berlin’s vibrant nightlife. 

Karisma Ekeh
Karisma Ekeh is an artist born in Lagos, and based in Düsseldorf. Since 2020, he has been studying at the Art Academy Düsseldorf in the classes of Dominique-Gonzalez-Foerster, Ellen Gallagher, and Danica Dakic. His short film, Negro Alter Ego: The Origin was showcased at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in 2022. Ekeh’s work often spans collaborative and interdisciplinary boundaries, incorporating elements from film, fashion, curatorial practices, performance, and poetry.

Occitane Lacurie
Occitane Lacurie is a PhD student at the École des Arts de la Sorbonne in Paris, a film journalist, as well as a video-essayist. Her academic work, like her videographic practice, is interested in media archaeology and the way hardware or software can be used to unveil invisible phenomena and untold chapters of the history of ideas. As a film critic, she is a member of the editorial board of the French film journal Débordements and contributes to Mediapart’s cultural podcast, L'Esprit critique. Her articles are focused on the forgotten history of feminist French criticism and the way images could be considered as crystallized political discourses. As a video essayist, her works have been shown at several international festivals such as En Temps Réel (2024), Mariendbad Film Festival (Video Essay selection 2024), Pesaro Film Festival (ReEdit competition award 2022), and Cinéma du Réel (Parallel selection 2021). They explore the way in which the material history of media can be told by reusing the images produced by the audiovisual fabric of reality.

Amira Louadah
Amira Louadah is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. Having grown up in a multilingual and sometimes exclusionary environment in Algeria, she perceives languages—video, photo, colours, objects—as materials to communicate beyond words, through sensation. She conducted her first field recordings during formative stays in Chang Mai and New York, exploring spaces created by cultural gaps, not for differentiation but to create fertile grounds for translation and interpretation. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI—Les Ateliers) in Paris, she applies her analytical and strategic design vision to her artistic work. She has been invited to present her projects by institutions such as the Sharjah Art Foundation, the London School of Economics, Pôle Pixel, and the Institut français d’Algérie. Her latest film, L’Arche (2022), won the Renaud Victor Prize at Fid Marseille and has been selected in official competition at several international festivals, including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, RIDM, and the Camden Film Festival. Through audiovisual, photographic, and performative projects, she questions and explores the renewal of the imagination associated with the city and the bodies inhabiting it, as well as forms of control, domination, and resistance of the body. 

Martí Madaula Esquirol
Martí Madaula Esquirol holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, a Master of Visual Arts from the LUCA School of Arts of  Ghent and a MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019, he received the Extraordinary Prize of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. In 2021, he was awarded a prestigious “La Caixa” Foundation fellowship to pursue his studies in the US.  His first film, The Living Wardrobe, had its world premiere at Visions du Réel 2024, one of the most important documentary and non-fiction film festivals in the world. Esquirol’s solo exhibitions include: L’Armari Vivent (Prats Nogueras Blanchard, 2024); Tough, Reliable and Almost Cuddly (SITE 280 Gallery in Chicago, 2023); To Recover the Bedsheets from Manchester (Museum of Sabadell, 2021); and Stronger than Air, Thinner than Ice (Astronomical Observatory of UGent, 2019), among others. He has also taken part in several group shows.

Xavier Montoriol
Xavier Montoriol graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures at Universitat of Barcelona, and later completed a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies of Literature, Art and Thought at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and in Film Curating at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), where he wrote and directed his first short film, Cantarà l’alosa (2024). His second film, A cidade, is now in post-production. He currently works as a translator and writes film criticism for different sites.

Anna Mundet Molas 
Anna Mundet Molas is a predoctoral researcher and film-maker from Barcelona with a BA and MA in Cinematography and Media Studies from Pompeu Fabra University. Her works have been showcased at festivals like Academia Film Olomouc, Braga Science Film Fest, and Barcelona Film Fest. Her academic path has included a fellowship at the University of Texas and participation in the Pelion Summer Lab at the University of Thessaly. She is the co-founder of Malniu Films, an artist-run, non-profit film cooperative and in 2023, she served as jury member for the NEST competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival. As a climate activist, Anna focuses on degrowth and critical perspectives on technology and digitalization. Her artistic work explores the intersection of technology, cinema, and environmentalism, utilizing new media tools and experimental forms within the fields of speculative ecologies, environmental humanities, image theory, and critical AI studies.

Samantha Ayo Anichikú
Sam (she|they) is a Berlin-based Afro-Cuban multidisciplinary artist and film-maker whose work explores retrofuturism, Afrofuturism, and Caribbean life with humour and surrealism. Sam's practice includes acting, producing, writing, filming, editing, painting, sculpting, and dancing. Having lived in Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Ecuador, and Germany, they bring a rich cultural perspective and fluency in multiple languages to their work. They prioritize inclusive representation and advocate for decolonized storytelling. Currently, Sam is pursuing multiple degrees in Latin American Studies along with Film and Theater Sciences. Their most recent project, the short film KHRONIC SATURN SYNDROME, was made in Germany in 2024.

Janaína de Oliveira Gerdemann 
Janaína de Oliveira Gerdemann was born in Lahnstein and grew up in Recife and Heidelberg. She studied Motion Pictures at Hochschule Darmstadt, earning her Bachelor’s degree. In 2017 she worked on her first documentary film, Damroze Akwe: Love and Resistance. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Ore Arts Collective, working as a film-maker. Her work is primarily concerned with the experiences and stories of the Black community, in particular those of resilience and creativity. Besides her work with Ore Arts, she is involved in a range of other artistic projects and through her work, is dedicated to making the film industry a more inclusive space.

Phuong Thao 
Phuong Thao is an artist and film-maker from Hanoi. Her works follow the trails of people, stories, and objects through cultural and political borders, hitherto forming a series of portraits situating each one in the current of history. She’s experimented with non-fiction in many forms: documentaries, fiction, installation and literature. Her deep interest in the human experience and its conflicts with the socio-political questions of the time has led her towards her most important collaborators: non-actors—or, in other words, complete strangers. She allows herself and her collaborators to be open, sensitive to the endless fluctuations and patterns of meaning around them. They move forward looking out for signs, for idiosyncrasies. Phuong Thao is experimenting on more intentioned, written, choreographed forms for her future projects. She works in France, Germany, and Vietnam.

Adélie Vertès
Adélie Vertès is a test tube baby, born in Australia to French parents, and grew up in the southwest of France. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Cinematographic Studies from the University Paris 7, and in 2021 she directed her first short film Borage, self-produced with Fumigènes Films, inspired by an encounter with an herbalist. She currently studies in the Narraction workgroup at Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. Vertès’s work invites us to politically reconsider our relationship to territory, landscapes of childhood, and the geographical and social perspectives that defines us, in particular the city-countryside divide. She also works on the notion of care and traditional healing techniques (herbalism, magnetism) in her writing, films, and photographs, for which she gathers medicinal plants on the outskirts of towns. She is currently working on a documentary following the resistance against the construction of the A69 highway that link the cities of Toulouse and Castres.

ZHOU Yinglin
Zhou Yinglin is a video and new media artist. She holds an MFA from the University of the Arts Berlin and is a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts Linz. Zhou explores identity, digital space, and cultural equality, addressing issues like identity recognition, displacement, and post-colonial gaps. Her works, with satirical wit and political insight, offer a futuristic view on cultural equality, reflecting extensive analysis. Her works have been shown at major art institutions and exhibitions globally, including Ars Electronica Center Linz, Art Basel Hong Kong’s Film Program.