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Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Aleksandr Kuznetsov is a photographer and journalist. He has been published in GEO, National Geographic, and his works has been exhibited in different international museum. After Territory of Freedom (Vision du reel 2014) and We’ll be alright (Jury’s prize and interreligious prize at Visions du Réel 2016, nominated at EFA) Ordinary Life is his third …

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai, born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel, was studying architecture, following in his father’s footsteps, when the Yom Kippur War interrupted his studies. He started using a small Super-8 camera during his helicopter missions. He then became a filmmaker. Amos Gitai has produced an extraordinarily varied body of work in which he explores the …

Coco Tassel

Coco Tassel graduated from the ENSAD in Paris (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) and has a Master’s degree in Art History. She began her journey in the world of images as illustrator, art director, and editor of some fifteen books. She also collaborated with the Japanese publisher Sazady and participated in several exhibitions. She …

Jacques Kébadian

Jacques Kebadian was born in France in 1940 to Armenian parents who emigrated in the 1920s. In 1964, he graduated from IDHEC. From 1965 to 1969, he was Robert Bresson’s assistant for the films Au hasard Balthazar, Histoire de Mouchette, and Une femme douce. From his first feature film (Trotsky in 1967), he turned to …

Yana Sad

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 …

Antoine d’Agata

Antoine d’Agata, born in Marseille in 1961, left France in 1983 for ten years. While in New York in 1990, he enrolled at the International Centre of Photography where he studied with Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. In 1993, he returns to France and interrupts his work as a photographer for four years. In 1998, …

Alexander Abaturov

Alexander Abaturov was born in 1984 in Russia. He graduated from Gorky University and became a journalist after his studies. In 2010, he arrived in France and joined the Master in Creative Documentary Filmmaking at the Lussas Documentary School. In 2013, he directed his first documentary film, Les Âmes dormantes, which was selected in many …

Vladimir Léon

Vladimir Léon was born in Moscow in 1969. He directed several documentary films, among which Nissim AKA Max (2004, co-directed with Pierre Léon), The Comintern Brahmin – The Untold Story of M. N. Roy (2007), Farewell Radiator Street (2008), The Polyhedron and the Elephant (2015), My Dear Spies (2020).