Yrsa Roca Fannberg
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Yrsa Roca Fannberg

Yrsa Roca Fannberg

Yrsa Roca Fannberg is born in Iceland, with Catalan heritage and brought up in Sweden. She has a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London and a Master in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Salóme (2014, 58 min), her first documentary won the Nordisk Panorama Best Nordic Documentary award in 2015. The Last Autumn (2019, 78 min) her first-feature length documentary premiered at Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival in 2019. At Nordisk Panorama it received the Jury Special Mention, also at RIFF and MajorDocs. The Ground Beneath Our Feet is her second feature documentary. Yrsa is an avid analogue photographer, who exhibits her work and teaches creative documentaries and history of documentary at the University of Iceland and organizes workshops for Icelandic documentaries.

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Paola Valentin
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Paola Valentin

Paola Valentin

Paola Valentin is a French artist, actress, and director born in Perche in 1994. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris and then trained as an actress in the free class at the Cours Florent, before joining the École du Nord under the direction of Christophe Rauck. She has performed in several major plays, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, directed by Pauline Baille at the Théâtre Public de Montreuil, and the role of La Marquise in La Seconde surprise de l'amour, directed by Cécile Garcia Fogel. Alongside her acting career, she has organized several exhibitions at L'étoile du Nord in Paris and at the Maison Folle in Lille. After appearing in several short and feature films, she star her directorial career in 2022 with Trois Mots de rien, which was selected for the Premier Plan Festival in Angers and the Champ Élysée Film Festival.

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André Guiomar
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André Guiomar

André Guiomar

André Guiomar, born in 1988, lives in Portugal, has a Master’s Degree in Cinema and Audiovisual and a degree in Sound and Image from the Portuguese Catholic University. He has worked in several film production companies such as Vende-se Filmes, Cimbalino Filmes, Promarte and is a founding partner of Olhar de Ulisses. Since 2022 he is a Berlinale Talents and in 2023 he premiered his short “Thorn”, co-directed with Mya Kaplan, in the Cannes Filmmakers’ Fortnight, involved in The Factory program. In 2022, he co-directed “Saturn” with Luís Costa, premiered at Guadalajara. His first feature-length documentary “Our Land, Our Altar” (2020) had its world premiere at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, won the Youth Jury Award at the ZINEBI Festival and the Emerging Director Award at the Porto/Post/Doc. In 2018 he directed the short documentary “Skin of Light”, winner of the Doclisboa Jury Award. He also directed “Píton”, winner of several international awards, and did the image and editing for Gonçalo Tocha’s “The Mother and the Sea” (2013), winner of the national DocLisboa award in 2014 and winner of best editing at Cineport.

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Nikolay Bem
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Nikolay Bem

Nikolay Bem

Nicolay Bem was born in 1977 in Neryoungri, Yakutia. He began working as a director in the 2000s for Krasnoyarsk television. In 2007, he created SiberiaDOC, a Franco-Russian initiative to develop independent cinema in Siberia, which aims to create movies outside of the major cultural centers of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. As director of the Siberian Independent Film Studio, he went on to lead the Siberian School of New Cinema project in Krasnoyarsk, an educational project offering courses in fiction and documentary filmmaking. In 2021, he was awarded the Russian Knowledge Society Prize « For his contribution to education in the field of culture and the arts. » His latest documentary film, Kotlovan, received the award for Best Editing at the DOKer International Documentary Film Festival in Moscow in 2025.

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Ivan Dimitrov
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Ivan Dimitrov

Ivan Dimitrov

Ivan Dimitrov is a Spanish-Bulgarian filmmaker. He studied at the ECAM school in Madrid. He has worked as a director and screenwriter on short films such as Paradiso (2025), Silencio (2024), and Negativ (2023), all shot in analog format. Dimitrov's work features a style that blends the transcendental and horror, focusing primarily on creating atmospheres that reflect the characters' tormented state.

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Antonio La Camera
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Antonio La Camera

Antonio La Camera

A cinema graduate of Roma Tre University, Antonio La Camera trained at the Sentieri Selvaggi school and the "Fare Cinema" advanced course directed by Marco Bellocchio. With over 40 awards to his name, he gained international recognition at the 2023 Venice Critics' Week with Las Memorias Perdidas de los Árboles, created under the mentorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. After appearing at major Oscar/EFA/Goya qualifying festivals, he joined the 2025 Locarno Academy to direct Le Mur du Son. He is currently developing his debut feature, Demons & Dust, with Andrea Garofalo, producer of Waterlock Production.

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Marina Velázquez Benitez
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Marina Velázquez Benitez

Marina Velázquez Benitez

Marina Velázquez Benítez, born in Madrid in 1991, is a director and screenwriter. Graduated in Screenwriting from ECAM, she began her career writing for television series for major national channels and international platforms. She has made the short films Etxetxipia (small house) (2022), Jerusalem (2023) and The Colour Grey (2024). She is currently writing her first feature film as a director, House in Flames, selected for the 4th Edition of the COOFILM Artistic Residency for Women Filmmakers (2023-2024) and the 1st Edition of ECAM FORUM (2024), a European project market organised by ECAM and the Community of Madrid

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Till Gombert
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Till Gombert

Till Gombert

Till Gombert was born in 1991 in Freiburg, Germany. He studied Media Art Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe from 2014 to 2020 and continued his studies in the postgraduate program at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His films have been selected for numerous festivals, including the Beijing International Short Film Festival, the Tirana International Film Festival, and the Stuttgarter Filmwinter. In 2023, he founded the production company DEKORFILM with Vera Paulmann and Florian Schmitz to produce fiction films and documentaries with an observational and realistic approach.

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Altuğ Kaan Paçaci
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Altuğ Kaan Paçaci

Altuğ Kaan Paçaci

Born in Turkey, Atuğ Kaan Paçaci is a film director and a screenwriter based in Paris. After working for the Ankara International Film Festival, he began a career as a film critic for the Turkish magazine Sekans, where he was editor-in-chief between 2015 and 2016. With a master's degree from EICAR (the International Film and Television School), he directed his first short film, Past Mortem, in 2025.

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Alexandra Kurt
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Alexandra Kurt

Alexandra Kurt

After graduating from a Bachelor in Arts in Cinema and Audiovisual in Luxembourg, Alexandra Kurt now studies filmmaking at the University of Television and Film in Munich (HFF München). In 2022, her short film August und die Hasenohren won the Deutscher Jugendfilmpreis and the Europa prize for best new talent.

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