After a childhood between Toulouse, Oran, and Thiais, Marie-Pierre Brêtas became a journalist at the Matin de Paris and then moved to New York. She worked as a cook and housekeeper at the Chelsea Hotel, and as a decorator’s assistant on films, including The Spike of Bensonhurst by Paul Morrissey… In Paris, she studied cinema …
Érik Bullot is a filmmaker and theoretician. The author of numerous films midway between documentary and experimental cinema, he recently published with Éditions Yellow Now Cinéma Roussel (2021) and L’Attrait des ventriloques (2022). His work has been presented in numerous festivals and museums. He teaches cinema at the École national supérieure d’art (National School of …
Maria Kourkouta is a filmmaker, editor and producer, born in Greece, in 1982. After studying history, she moved to Paris where she studied film theory. She makes films since 2010, mostly in 16mm film. After her short film Return To Aeolus Street in 2014 (Arte Prize for Best European short film at Oberhausen FF), she …
Wiame Haddad (1987) graduated from ESAD in Valenciennes, and from La Cambre in Brussels. The artist’s work can be considered as a photographic and cinematographic research project which investigates ethical issues and experiments with formal approaches. This research is coupled with a yearning for the unseen. Focusing on the forgotten bodies of History, her work …
Rayane Mcirdi was born in Paris and grew up between Asnières-sur-Seine and Gennevilliers, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Angers. His work, midway between fiction and documentary, is based on stories, memories and anecdotes collected from his relatives, which …
Luc Decaster grew up in Saint-Nazaire, the “French ship-building capital”. During his teenage years while he was preparing for his Industrial Boilermaker’s Certificate, he was marked by fierce strikes, the confrontations between laborers from the Atlantic shipyards and the riot police. Having become an industrial draftsman with Chausson in the Paris region, he discovered the …
Hinde Boujemaa is a Belgian-Tunisian director and screenwriter. Author in 2012 of her first feature documentary C’était mieux demain (official selection at the Venice Film Festival), she moved to fiction in 2014 with …et Roméo a épousé Juliette, several times awarded. In 2019, she directed Noura rêve (official selection at the Toronto film festival and …
Born in 1972 in Paris, France, Alain Gomis studied art history and film. After making videos and short films, his first feature film L’Afrance (2002) won the Silver Leopard at Locarno. His last film Félicité was shown at the Competition section of the 2017 Berlinale.