Nicolas Pastergue
Nicolas Pastergue is a French cinematographer. He has worked on the Riviera series and the short film Malfaisant, directed in 2013 by Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther. He made his directorial debut in 2025 with Le Silence du monde.
Angelo Vapellari
Trained as a psychoanalyst, Angelo Vapellari is a French film director. The Silence of the World, his first short film, wich was self-produced, earned Alexandre Kalourguine the Best Actor Award at the Montpellier Independant Film Festival and was selected for the Avignon International Film Festival.
Nilram Ranjbar
At just 12 years old, Nilram Ranjbar is the director of three animated short films. Her previous film Cat and Fish was projected in international film festivals such as the Pápa International Historical Film Festival (Hungaria) and Sustain Film Festival (England). With her third and latest movie Immigrant, the young Iranian director showcases a great technical and stylistic evolution.
Vida Guzmić
Vida Guzmić is a Croatian artist, born in Zagreb in 1986. She earned a Master of Arts in New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb in 2012, and a degree in Gender Studies from the Center for Women’s Studies in Zagreb in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam and at KulturKontakt Austria in Vienna. As a member of the collective Space is Tactics between 2012 and 2018, she organized audio/video workshops for young women through Studio Pangolin. Detours, produced by the same studio, is selected for the Slow Film Festival in London in 2025.
Samar Taher Lulu
Samar Taher Lulu is a young director born in Gaza, Palestine. She made her first documentary in 2019, Religious Tolerance. She went on to win two awards in 2023 and 2025 at the ConnectHer festival with Jawaher and Khalil HanaaI. Through her documentaries, she seeks to highlight the voices of the oppressed and give them an international platform.
Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini
Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini is a young director born in Gaza, Palestine. A graduate of Al-Aqsa University, he directed Jawaher and Khalil HanaaI with Samar Taher, which won two awards at the ConnectHer festival in 2023 and 2025. He dedicates his career and his films to documenting the plight of Palestinians and climate change.
Andrea Schumacher
Andrea Schumacher is a filmmaker from Essen (Germany) whose work has been particularly influenced by her collaborations with other artists such as Kay Voges, Helge Schneider, and Werner Nekes. She works as a co-writer, assistant director, and editor.
Kay Voges
Born in Düsseldorf (Germany), Kay Voges is a director of film, theatre, and opera. He has won numerous awards for his theatrical works – e.g., NRW-Theatertreffen, Artodocs International Film Festival (St-Petersburg). He was the Artistic Director of Schauspiel Dortmund for ten years, then in 2019 became the Artistic Director of the Volkstheater in Vienna. He is engaged in a search for the potential, possibilities and forms of performance that lied hidden in modern technology, because theatres are machines that always present people in relation to technology. In 2025, he becomes the Artistic Director of Schauspiel Köln.
Amos Schüller
Son of Soshana, Amos Schüller was born in 1946 in New York. Today, he is involved in promoting exhibitions devoted to his mother's work, bringing an intimate dimension to her artistic and human heritage.
