After studying art at the CSIA in Lugano, Switzerland and architecture in Netherland, Teo Baehler decided to focus on his art production. In 2025, at 66, he launched his now multi-awarded-winning project DYNAMICS first started in 2009. Raised in Switzerland, Baehler takes inspiration from these landscapes. Nature and organic matters are both used as a medium and a creative resource for his sculptures, stop motion films and land art.
Born in 1981, Anaïs López is a professional photographer who puts storytelling at the center of her work. Her multimedia projects focus on our interaction with the urban world and our interpersonal relations, granting her international recognition. Her previous creation The Migrant was notably awarded the Zilveren Camera prize. Public displays of López’s work have been organised at the Galerie Agnès B (France), the Netherlands Photo Museum and at the Lianzhou Foto Festival (China).
Born in Naples in 1979, Adam Selo is a director, producer, and distributor. As the founder of Elenfant Film (2004) and Sayonara Film (2016), he has spent fifteen years on the international circuit, earning recognition at prestigious festivals including Venice (Critics' Week), Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Giffoni, and TIFF (Toronto). Alongside his creative practice, he shares his expertise as a professor of filmmaking at the University of Bologna.
Swiss filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Peikert has nurtured a fascination for fictional worlds from an early age, decorating her bedroom with moving figures. 1000 O and The Cormorant's Shadow are her latest experimental films, singular and eccentric, reflecting her artistic research into abstract fictional behaviors, explored through movement, cinematic light and action.
Hannes Rall is a President’s Chair Professor in Animation Studies at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. His career as a director is marked by over 900 international festival selections and 95 awards, including the prestigious Goldener Reiter in Dresden and the Golden Sun Award in Los Angeles. He is the author of Animation: From Concept to Production and Adaptation for Animation: Transforming Literature Frame by Frame, both of which are held in the permanent collections of Yale and Stanford universities. His previous short, Shakespeare for All Ages (2022), achieved major success with 250 selections and 25 awards. His latest film, Dobrina, continues this global wave with 50 selections (including Martha's Vineyard and Buffalo IFF) and 6 awards to date.
Born in Ukraine, Erik Sémashkin moved to France in 2012. In 2021, his short film "Out" was selected at the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. The following year, he directed seven short films including House of Mice, which won the Jury Prize at the Tremplin Festival in Besançon, the Best Sound Design Award at the Makedonska 21 Festival in Belgrade, and Plastic Soldier, also selected in numerous festivals. Erik Sémashkin is currently a film student at Paris 8 University.
Éva Stefaní (1964) is a Greek filmmaker based in Athens who has directed over thirty films ranging from ethnographic to experimental. Her work has been screened at numerous international films festivals, receiving prestigious awards (Oberhausen, Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI, etc.). In 2024, L’Europe autour de l’Europe festival had already dedicated a retrospective to her work. Since 2000, she has participated in international visual arts exhibitions, with the most notable examples being documenta14 and the Venice Biennale. In addition to her artistic activity, Éva Stefaní is a professor of film studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she studied in Greece, France, the UK, and the US. Her latest film, “Bull’s Heart,” is a peculiar portrait of director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou.
