Born in Madrid in 1981, Jonás Trueba is the author of the feature films Todas las canciones hablan de mí (2010), Los ilusos (2013), Los exiliados románticos (2015) and La reconquista (2016). The fifth, The August Virgin, was distributed in France in 2020.
Laurie Lassalle lived a nomadic childhood between France and Nigeria. In 2014, she directed her first medium-length fiction film, I Made My Own Course Down The Passive Rivers, selected at the Critic’s Week in Cannes. She directed I Am Gong (Association 1000Visages) with young inhabitants of the inner city La Grande Borne (Jury Prize and …
A fiction and documentary filmmaker, Rosine Mbakam graduated from the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS) in 2012. She grew up in Cameroon and learned camerawork, editing and filmmaking. She first made a short fiction film, Tu seras mon allié, which won awards in several international festivals. In …
An van. Dienderen works at the intersection between documentary, anthropology and visual arts. She graduated in audiovisual arts (Sint-Lukas, Brussels), obtained a PhD in Comparative Cultural Sciences (Ghent University), and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. She made several documentaries screened worldwide, awarded with (inter)national prizes. Films include Visitors of the Night (1998), Site …
Born in Burkina Faso in 1978, Eléonore Yaméogo turned with determination to a passion that is difficult for a woman to access in Africa: filmmaking. She first trained on numerous shoots, before entering the Institut Supérieur de l’Image et du Son (ISIS) in Burkina-Faso, where she obtained her BTS in audiovisual. She directed in 2019 …
Sam Soko is a director and producer based in Nairobi. His work on sociopolitical projects in music and film has allowed him to connect and work with artists around the world. He is co-founder of LBx Africa, a Kenyan production company that produced the 2018 Academy Award–nominated short fiction film Watu Wote. Softie is his …
Since 2004, Arnaud des Pallières has been working on a visual and sound fresco – a plural constellation of films – depicting American stories from the 20th century, reinvented from archives from the American Prelinger collection. Through this series of films, the filmmaker explores America as one would Atlantis, a lost continent. Diane Wellington, Poussières …