Théo Angélopoulos is a film director and critic born in 1935 in Greece. He exiles from his country to flee the civil war and begins studies in Paris. He studies anthropology with Claude Lévi-Strauss and trains in cinema by rubbing shoulders with Jean Rouch at the French cinematheque.
A Maltese-American filmmaker, Marcelle Abela began as a child prodigy violinist before turning to cinema. Her science documentaries, awarded at festivals like Tsiolkovsky, are part of the European Space Agency’s official archives. Following her successful features Mikha’El and America’s Woman, she recently directed Ukraine’s Soul, acclaimed for its look at human resilience. Inspired by Tarkovsky, Herzog, and Ken Burns, her work blends documentary precision with artistic vision to explore the depths of the soul and the chaos of history.
Kristóf Sólyom is a Hungarian screenwriter, director, and producer. He first studied literature and cinema at ELTE in Budapest, and graduated with an MA in filmmaking. He is a member of the Freeszfe Association and joined the KINO ALFA collective production in 2023. His project Dreams at Sunset is part of the first Hungarian doc.incubator and the Astra Film Festival DocTank.
Alejandro Bordier is a French-spanish director who has completed film studies in different parts of the world such as Florida, Madrid or Prague. After gaining experience in different fields, he decided to specialise in screenwriting and directing. In his short films, Bordier uses themes such as anxiety, nervous breakdowns in Cecile but also suicide in Caroline sur un toit.
Born into a family of actors in Jinhua in 1998, Guoju Wang is a young director who graduated from the London Film School. He studied music and philosophy before turning to filmmaking. His work focuses on Chinese society, its history, and its relationship with Buddhism. In 2021, he directed River of Crystals before directing Letter From Ruin, which will be screened at the Shanghai Youth Film Festival. In 2024, he directed his film A Winter Mirage, which was selected for the 14th edition of the Beijing International Film Festival ReelFocus Workshop.
Jiajie Yu Yan graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Ramón Llull University and earned a master's degree in Screenwriting and Film Directing at the Bande à Part film school. In 2020 he was nominated for the Spanish Film Academy's Goya Award for Best Fiction Short Film for Xiao Xian. In 2023 he got his second nomination as producer of the short film Chaval (2021). He is currently developing his first feature film, San Dai Shi Guang, which has participated in the Residencies of the Spanish Film Academy, Ventana CineMad, Bridging the Dragon Sino-European Lab and the Torino Film Lab, among other laboratories.
Based in Rome, Nikola Lorenzin is a director and cinematographer, as well as a renewable energy engineer. Co-founder of the Santabelva collective, he gained recognition with his debut feature documentary, Corpo dei Giorni, which won Best Film at the 2022 Turin Film Festival. That same year, his film La Sal Negra, for which he handled both direction and cinematography, received the Lo Scrittoio Subtitles Award at the Visioni dal Mondo Festival. His cinema is characterized by a rigorous visual approach, shaped by his dual technical and artistic expertise.
Born in Bari in 1994, Giacomo Scoditti holds a law degree specializing in film financing. He refined his craft at the Luchino Visconti Civic School and later specialized in directing at the CSC (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in Milan. After establishing himself in music videos, corporate communication, and as an assistant director, he transitioned into filmmaking. Son, produced by Nichel Film, is his second short film—a work that explores the persistence of memory within physical spaces.
Carles Bover is a filmmaker born in 1991 in Mallorca. He holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from CESAG and specializes in social documentary and audiovisual distribution. He has been directing and producing his own projects since 2014, including Gaza (2019), winner of the Goya Award, Destrucció creativa d'una ciutat (2020), Benín, infància robada (2023), and Hijos de África (2023), winner of the Fugaz Award.
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.
