Mia Engberg is a filmmaker and researcher based in Stockholm. She has directed a number of documentaries, fiction- and experimental films and was the producer behind the feminist project Dirty Diaries – 12 shorts of feminist porn. His film Belleville Baby premiered at the 2013 Berlinale and received a Guldbagge the same year. Her previous feature film, Hypermoon, was made in 2023 and won the Prix Sauvage at the L’Europe autour de l’Europe festival in 2024.
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.
Born in Hamburg in 1986, Arne Körner studied film with Wim Wenders at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. Körner's short films have been shown at over 200 national and international festivals and have won numerous awards. The Bicycle, Körner's first feature, had its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival and won the Jury Prize. His second feature, Gasman, premiered at the 41st Cairo International Film Festival and at the Festival l'Europe autour de l'Europe en 2021.
Norwegian director and screenwriter Lilja Ingolfsdottir is a professor at the Norwegian Film School, where she teaches screenwriting. She made over 20 award-winning short films before directing her first feature, Loveable (2023), which had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it won five awards.
