Jón Einarsson Gústafsson
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Jón Einarsson Gústafsson

Jón Einarsson Gústafsson

Jón Einarsson Gústafsson is an Icelandic director, screenwriter, and photographer. Born in Akranes, Iceland, in 1963, he went on to study film at Manchester Polytechnic and then at the California Institute of the Arts. In the late 1990s, he moved to Canada. There, in 1998, he directed the music video Brighter Hell for The Watchmen and made his first documentary, The Importance of Being Icelandic, about three Canadians of Icelandic descent. Following his first feature film Kanadiana (2002), he directed the 2007 documentary Wrath of God, which chronicles the making of Beowulf and Grendel (2005), directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the Oxford International Film Festival and the Red Rock Film Festival, as well as Bronze Remi at WorldFest Houston. In 2010, through his production company ArtioFilms, he produced the multi-award-winning short film In a Heartbeat, directed by Karolina Lewicka. He later co-directed the thriller Shadowtown (2020) with her. Anorgasmia earned Mathilde Warnier and Edward Hayter the Best Actress and Best Actor awards respectively at the 2025 Bollywood International Film Festival. The film also won Best Feature Film at the Capri Contest Awards.

evropa2026-03-07T12:39:04+01:007 Mar 2026|

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.

evropa2026-03-05T13:54:18+01:005 Mar 2026|

Vlad Bolgarin
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Vlad Bolgarin

Vlad Bolgarin

Vlad Bolgarin is an editor and director viewed as one of the emerging figures of the moldavian film industry. As the head of the Volt Company, created in 2017, he produced his first short and animated film Sight which gained attention in international festivals such as the Busan International film festival. After producing the American-Moldovan series Lost in Moldavia, Bolgarin started on the production of his second short film Place under the sun shot in Romanian.

evropa2026-03-02T11:58:07+01:002 Mar 2026|

Beata Migas
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Beata Migas

Beata Migas

Beata Migas is a director, producer, and screenwriter, as well as the founder and CEO of Haddock Entertainment. Trained in Film Directing at the Film School in Belgrade, she also holds a degree in Ecological Sources of Energy (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków) and is a graduate of the European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw. Since 2017, she has been developing fiction and documentary projects within European cinema, focusing on underrepresented communities and contemporary environmental issues. Her debut feature, UFO: They Are Already Here (2021), a journalistic film about ufological phenomena, achieved significant success. She has also directed other films, including At Present (2023), presented at the EFM of the 74th Berlinale, and the drama Fish Swim Alive Underwater (2024), premiered at the 11th Finno-Ugric Film Festival in Tartu.

evropa2026-03-02T09:27:11+01:002 Mar 2026|

Pola Mika Lara Kapuste
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Pola Mika Lara Kapuste

Pola Mika Lara Kapuste

Pola Kapuste works across text and film. After studying Spanish Philology at the Free University of Berlin, she worked as a journalist for German media in Mexico. Upon returning to Berlin, she worked as a writer, producer, and co-director on numerous film, series, and music video productions. Madonnas is her third short film. Created during a residency in Taranto (Italy), the film had its world premiere at the Beijing International Short Film Festival (China) and was selected for competition at the prestigious Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival (Germany).

evropa2026-03-01T17:47:35+01:001 Mar 2026|

Adem Tutić
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Adem Tutić

Adem Tutić

Born in 2002 Adem Tutić is a student in film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His work mainly discusses the place of the Muslim identity in current Serbia and its relation with the orthodox culture.

evropa2026-03-01T16:21:10+01:001 Mar 2026|

Kristóf Sólyom
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Kristóf Sólyom

Kristóf Sólyom

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.

evropa2026-02-28T21:22:58+01:0028 Feb 2026|

Jiajie Yu Yan
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Jiajie Yu Yan

Jiajie Yu Yan

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.

evropa2026-02-28T16:39:40+01:0028 Feb 2026|

Oliver Würffell
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Oliver Würffell

Oliver Würffell

Oliver Würffell is an award-winning director based in New York. His work, which ranges from award-winning advertising campaigns to deeply personal films, reveals a filmmaker driven by empathy and a commitment to visual quality. His short film The Letter premiered on the opening night of LA Shorts and won the Best Documentary award at the New York Shorts International Film Festival in 2025.

evropa2026-03-14T11:14:52+01:0028 Feb 2026|

Nikola Lorenzin
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Nikola Lorenzin

Nikola Lorenzin

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.

evropa2026-03-02T16:05:37+01:0017 Feb 2026|

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