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.
Bruno Ojeda, born in Barcelona in 1991, is a director, screenwriter, and film professor. He holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Sevilla and a Master’s degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He has developed, directed, and written fiction and documentary projects such as Cuando Las Cigarras Callen, Del Tacto, and Las Malditas. His films have been selected at festivals including the Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla, DokumentArt, and the Málaga Film Festival.
An Oslo-based filmmaker and theorist, Elisabeth Brun (b. 1977) explores the impact of technology on perception and territory. Holding a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Oslo and a degree from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, she directed documentaries for NRK for a decade before turning to the film essay. Her work, awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, has been presented internationally at venues such as Vienna Shorts, LIAF, the Seattle Art Museum, and Grimstad. Through film, installation, and writing, she investigates the entanglement between digital tools and lived experiences, often anchoring her visual research in her Norwegian origins.
Nikos Theodosiou was born in Athens in September 1946. He studied cinema in Athens and then, after the 1967 coup d'état, continued his studies in Paris. There, he attended seminars by Jean Rouch on documentary film, Henri Langlois on the history of cinema, and Marc Ferro on "Cinema and Society". He remained in Paris until 1974. Back in Greece, he became involved in film, journalism, photojournalism, radio, literature and historical research. To date, 31 of his books have been published and he has directed over 30 films.
Born in Athens in 1992, Olia Verriopoulou lives and works between Athens and Paris, where she studied cinema (Paris VII-Diderot, École des Gobelins). In 2021, she directed Sacralisons, her first short film. In 2025, she completed La Première Image, a short fiction film, and Histoires d'un mensonge, a feature-length documentary that premiered at IDFA. For the past ten years, she has been involved in programming and organizing film festivals.
Georgi M. Unkovski is a Macedonian writer and director born in New York in 1988. He spent his childhood and youth in Macedonia before returning to the United States to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology – Eastman’s School of Photography, where he earned a degree in Fine Arts. During that period, he published the photography book Be Right Back, focused on gaming culture and the young people who frequented internet cafés in Skopje. His passion for cinema then lead him to Prague, where he completed a master's degree at the prestigious FAMU, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, with a thesis exploring the intersections between video games and cinema. Back in Skopje, he worked as a director for one of the country's leading advertising agencies, FUTURA 2/2, as well as for Cinema Futura, a local production company dedicated to filmmaking. A Sundance Institute alumnus, Georgi M. Unkovski has directed more than ten short films, notably Sticker (2020), which won over 50 international awards and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. DJ Ahmet is his first feature film, which is also being presented at Sundance in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Frederick Wiseman was born on January 1, 1930 in Boston (Massachusetts, USA). After studying art at Williams College and law at Yale Law School, he was appointed Professor of Law at Boston University in 1956 and at Harvard University in 1959. Despite this brilliant career, Wiseman soon turned his back on his academic career, producing several films.
Andrijana Stojković is a Serbian director with a master's degree in film and television directing from the Belgrade School of Dramatic Arts. In 2012, her documentary The Box received a special mention at the L'Europe autour de L'Europe Festival. She received a second mention in 2018 for her documentary Wongar. She has received two nominations at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Mileva Einstein, Andrijana Stojković's third hybrid feature film, premiered at the eighth edition of the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival in February 2026.
