Inadelso Cossa is a Mozambican film director, cinematographer, producer, and the founder of 16mmFILMES, an independent film and television company based in Mozambique. His work explores different phases of Africa’s, particularly Mozambique’s, history from a personal perspective. Investigating the Colonial, Post Colonial, Independence, and Post Civil War periods, Cossa finds it his duty to document …
Francesca Comencini studied philosophy. She collaborated with her father Luigi on the screenplay of A Child of Calabria (1987) and directed her first feature film, Pianoforte, in 1984, which was followed by The Light of the Lake (1989) and Annabelle Shared (1991). She directed a portrait of Elsa Morante (1995) for the series “Un siècle …
Jean-Marie Teno is a director, editor and producer of Cameroonian cinema, born on May 14, 1954. In 1983, he made his first documentary short entitled Schubbah. In 1996, he shot Clando, a feature film that won the Audience Award at the 6th African Film Festival in Milan, Italy. He has since directed Chef (1999), Le …
Shlomi Elkabetz is a director, screenwriter, teacher, actor and producer. In 2011, he wrote, directed and produced the film Testimony, presented at the Venice Film Festival. With his sister, Ronit Elkabetz, he directed the trilogy To Take A Wife, The Seven Days and Gett which were selected respectively at the Venice Critics’ Week/Mostra in 2004, …
After studying literature and earning a doctorate in cinema, Agnès Perrais directed two documentaries, Tant que nous sommes à bord and Magari!, about political and social issues that she seeks to address through the prism of the imaginary. In recent years, her cinematographic practice has focused on cinema on film: she became co-president of L’Etna …
Since 2001, Virgil Vernier’s films have intersected fiction, documentary and mythology. Among them are Thermidor (2009), Pandore (2010), Orléans (2012), Mercuriales (2014), and Sophia Antipolis (2018). His films have been selected at numerous international festivals including Cannes, Locarno and Berlin. © Simon Apostolou