Born on november 17, 1997 in Uvira, Kivu (DRC), of Congolese parents, Fariala Alolea Albert (aka Rafiki Fariala) arrived early in the Central African Republic, where his parents took refuge because of the war. At the seminary, he directs the choir and develops his voice. Later, he falls in love with the music of Makoma, …
Ruth Beckermann is a filmmaker and author based in Vienna. Her films include The Paper Bridge, East of War and American Passages. In 2014 her film Those Who Go Those Who Stay received the big documentary film prize at the Diagonale in Graz. Two years later The Dreamed Ones was also honored there as best …
Sergei Loznitsa was born on 1964. He grew up in Kiev (Ukraine). In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied feature filmmaking.He has been making films since 1996, and by now he has directed 23 award-winning documentaries (among them the feature films Maidan, 2014; The Event …
Carl Elsaesser (1988, USA) graduated from Hampshire college and University of Iowa. He lives and works between midcoast and interior Maine and Brooklyn, NY. He has made several short films which have screened at festivals in New York, Berlin, Michigan, Amsterdam, Korea among others. In his work, Elsaesser mixes genres and materials to produce work …
Adirley Queirós Andrade is a filmmaker from Brazil. His latest films are Once It Was Brasilia (2017), which premiered at the 70th Locarno Film Festival where it received the Special Mention Signs of Life, and White Out Black In (2014), which was widely screened and won more than 20 awards in Brazil and abroad. His …
Joana Pimenta is a filmmaker from Portugal. Her latest film, An Aviation Field, premiered in competition at the 69th Locarno Film Festival, and was screened in the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, CPH:Dox, Rencontres Internationales, Oberhausen, Valdivia, Mar del Plata, Edinburgh, among others, and received the Jury Award for Best Film …
Simon Liu is a film artist who works between alternative documentary forms, abstract diary films, multi-channel video installations and 16mm projection performances. Liu’s work has been presented at film festivals and museums globally including the Berlinale, IFFR, TIFF, NYFF, Sundance, ND/NF, BFI, M+ Museum, The Shed, MOCA, PICA, and an upcoming solo-program at the Museum …
Born in 1976 in Argentina, Jonathan Perel lives and works in Buenos Aires. He attended a degree in Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires). He directed the feature films Responsabilidad Empresarial (2020, Cinéma du réel), Toponimia (2015), Tabula Rasa (2013), 17 Monumentos (2012) and El Predio (2010), and the …