Austrian director Werner Müller received support from the Austrian Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture for his documentary on the painter Soshana. In 2014, Überall alleine - Die Malerin Soshana won the Silver Dolphin in the "Arts, Music and Culture" category at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards.
Michaël Delmar and Keren Marciano work in tandem. Keren Marciano is a French director, trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, then at EICAR. She spent several months training at Femis as part of her studies at CNSAD. Her first short film, Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée, with Sara Giraudeau and Marie-Christine Barrault for France 2, won several awards in France (Grand Prix at the Nîmes Festival, the Off-Courts Festival in Trouville, the Pierre Cardin Festival in Paris). In 2020, she set up her own production company and directed Sentiments Distingués, scripted by Michaël Delmar for the Canal Plus Hello platform. She produced and directed a feature-length documentary, Perdues d'amour, selected for the L'Europe autour de l'Europe festival and broadcast on LCN. She also participates in numerous radio readings for France Culture.
Michaël Delmar and Keren Marciano work in tandem. Michaël Delmar is a French astrology specialist, journalist and film-maker. He worked with Thierry Ardisson on Façade magazine in the 1980s. He then worked for Elle magazine, followed by Jardin des Modes, Dépêche Mode, Vogue and 20 ans. He writes for Marie-Claire and Cosmopolitan, and co-writes and co-directs a number of television documentaries, including "L'étoile noire" (France 5, 2005), "Stars en Clair obscur" (France 3, 2006), and "Juliette Gréco". He collaborated on the screenplay for Elisa (1995), and has published several astrology books: "Les Symboles de l'Astrologie" (Assouline, 2000), and "L'Astrologie Amoureuse" (1998, new edition 2004, Grancher). He published an astral biography of Marilyn Monroe, "Marilyn Chérie" (Michel Lafon, 1982) and "Jeanne Moreau, portrait d'une femme" (Norma, 1994).
Born in Bologna in 1926, Valerio Zurlini is an Italian director and screenwriter, an important yet little-known figure in post-war Italian cinema. After studying law and art history, he turned to cinema, making some fifteen short films between 1948 and 1955. In 1959, he directed Été violent, and the following year, he enjoyed critical and popular success with La Fille à la valise (1960), starring Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale, in one of his first major film roles. In 1962, he reunited with Jacques Perrin, this time accompanied by Marcello Mastroianni, in Diary, which won the Golden Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. These three films sensitively evoke the outpouring of love and the existential despair of people aware of the sociological and political difficulties in which they live. In 1972, he directed Le Professeur with Lea Massari and Alain Delon, whom he chose again for his film Le Désert des tartares (1976), an ambitious work shot in Iran and featuring an exceptional cast including Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ennio Morricone on music. His films, which are often co-produced by France, often feature great French actors such as Delon, Perrin, Trintignant and Anna Karina.
Telemach Wiesinger is a German filmmaker and photographer whose work is based on the idea of travel. On his many travels, he collects and captures images with his 16mm camera. Bordering on documentary filmmaking, his stunningly beautiful black-and-white films are sometimes accompanied by soundtracks, the fruit of his collaboration with composers and musicians such as Alexander Grebtschenko and Adrian Belew. Graduating in 1995 from the University of Kassel with a degree in arts and visual communication, his analog films have been presented and awarded several times as part of individual programs or performances, and at numerous international festivals and venues linked to experimental cinema or the visual arts, such as Chicago, Hong Kong, Geneva, Mexico and Cannes.
Yuri Kuzin is a Russian filmmaker, philosopher and writer born in 1962. He joined the VGIK in 1994 and released his first short film Levsha in 1999. It won the Best Student Film award at the Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival. In 2006, he directed the NTV series Stolypin... Forgotten Lessons, based on the short story by Eduard Voldarsky. He then ceased his film activity for a few years, turning to other fields such as literature, philosophy and theology, before returning in 2024 with his film Heidegger.
With a master’s degree in microelectronics, Leonard Alecu is a photographer and filmmaker specializing in large-format (8x20 inches). Trained in the Edward Weston school, he pursues a quest for analog perfection in black and white. His works on the frozen lands of the North have been exhibited in prestigious institutions such as the MARe (Museum of Recent Art) in Bucharest and the George Enescu University of Arts Gallery in Iasi. An award-winner at international festivals, he has distinguished himself globally with Ice Breath, winning Best Documentary Feature in London (New Renaissance) and receiving multiple awards at the IndieFEST in the United States.
Jasmin van Dorp is a Dutch filmmaker born in The Netherlands. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2019. Following her graduation, she worked as a documentary line producer and researcher on several documentaries. In 2022, she moved to Sweden, where she pursued the Film & Media master’s program The Art of Impact at the Stockholm University of the Arts. The Spectacle is her short film debut as a director.
Giulia Grossmann is a French artist and filmmaker, born in Paris in 1984, whose films explore humanity's relationship with the Earth, in a dialogue between fiction and scientific approaches. After studying visual arts and anthropology, she quickly turned to cinema. In 2012, she directed her first short film, Native American, which won the Prix Création Vidéo des Inrocks Lab. Pasaïa (2021), which uses Basque culture and mythology to question time and its cyclical dimension, won a special mention at the Festival de l'Europe autour de l'Europe in 2023, and was selected the same year for the Grenoble Festival de Cinéma Ibérique Latino-Américain, the Beijing International Short Film Festival and the Festival du Film Court de Pantin. In 2024, she took part in an expedition to Iceland, during which she shot the images used in Ultima (prélude).
Pascal Bauer is a German director who soon started filming with the family camcorder. At 16 years old, Pascal made his first short film, disguised as a school project and went on to form a creative collective with two friends for the production of music videos in 2016. From 2018 to 2021 he visited Screen & Filmschool in Brighton, UK, to further study film theory. In 2022 he moved to Berlin, first working as a producer, mainly on commercial campaigns and since then focused on the creation of music videos as well as narrative film projects.
