Tamás Almási is a Kossuth Prize and Béla Balázs award-winning film director, renowned for his fiction and documentary films, which have been selected for prestigious festivals such as FIPA Biarritz, Karlovy Vary, Cairo International Film Festival, Visions du Réel Nyon, Prix Europa Berlin, Cinéma du Réel Paris, Golden Gate International Film Festival San Francisco, and Dok-Leipzig. He has received numerous international awards, including the Grand Prize at the Hungarian Film Festival six times and the Hungarian Film Critics’ Award five times. His films have been screened in nearly 50 countries across various television networks and cinemas. Widely recognized works include Graduation, I Was Your Kid, Women Condemned, Barren, The Matter of the Heart, Helpless, Our Cells, and Puskás Hungary.
Tamás Almási is a professor emeritus at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, where he himself graduated. Since 1999, he has been teaching and leading courses at the university. Admired as both a pioneering artist and teacher, he was a visionary and one of the founders of the Documentary Directing (DokMa) and the international DocNomads master’s programs. His Hungarian and international students have successfully participated in major film festivals and have become respected figures in the film industry.

Ruth Beckermann is a filmmaker and writer was born in Vienna, Austria. Her film Those Who Go Those Who Stay won Best Documentary at the 2014 Diagonale in Graz. Two years later, The Dreamed Ones won Best Feature Film at the same festival. The Waldheim Waltz received several prizes including the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award at the 2018 Berlinale and was also nominated as Austria’s entry for the Oscars. In 2022, Mutzenbacher screened in the Encounters section of the Berlinale where it won the award for Best Film.

Danijar Bíró earned his BA in Social Sciences from UCL in London, and then began his career as a video journalist at Partizán in Budapest. His portrait series, Faces of War which covers the Russian-Ukrainian war through personal stories, received the Hégető Honorka Award. In 2024, he completed his graduation film, Songs from People’s Island as part of the MA Documentary Film program at Goldsmiths, London.

Adelina Borets is a screenwriter and director born in Mariupol, Ukraine. She is a graduate of directing at the Warsaw Film School and the Script course at the Wajda School, and is currently defending her master's degree thesis in directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. Her debut documentary film The Wormwood Star (2018) won the Grand Prix and the audience award at the 15th International Ecological Festival EKOFILM, and the Grand Prix at the Golden Frames festival - International Festival of Short Fiction Films. The medium-length feature film Eden House (2021) was recognised as the best feature film at the Coal Film Festival in Katowice and was awarded the special critics‘ prize at the Critics’ Festival in Kiev.

Natalie Chkhartishvili is a film professional from Georgia with an academic background in Social Sciences. She currently works at Chai Khana, an online media platform in the South Caucasus known for producing creative documentaries that explore diverse perspectives and social issues. With over five years of experience in the field, Natalie manages film and media content distribution and strategic fundraising efforts. For the past two years, she has also developed and coordinated KineDok Georgia, an alternative distribution platform for creative documentaries from Eastern Europe, led by the Institute of Documentary Film and operated by Chai Khana in Georgia. Natalie is an alumna of the Berlinale Talents 2024 Market Studio for audience designers and a fellow in the Getting Real program run by the International Documentary Association.

Dan Radu Curean is a photography and documentary director, producer and script-writer. His work has won numerous awards, and he is currently working as a photography director for the Romanian National Television. He is also a lecturer, teaching Media and Television at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.

Sára Czira has been working as a 1st AD in feature films for about two decades. She got involved in several outstanding films such as Dealer (2004, Berlinale), Taxidermia (2006, Cannes), Womb (2010, Locarno), Just the Wind (2012, Berlinale Silver Bear). In recent years, she has been participating in performances and fine art projects dealing with human rights and tolerance and also started working on her first direction, the HBO co-produced documentary Cabin Pressure.

Sissel Morell Dargis, born in Copenhagen to Lithuanian and Spanish parents, studied Film and Media in Denmark and Cuba. She has led community-based social programmes like Rocinha by Rocinha, empowering local youth in Brazilian favelas through cultural exchange. She has made documentaries in Argentina and Cuba, and has a background in graffiti and photography focused on urban art. Her first feature documentary Balomania (2024) premiered at CPH:DOX.

Max Duncan is a British filmmaker, journalist and cinematographer. His work has shown on platforms including BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS and the New York Times and been exhibited at galleries including Tate Modern. Now based in Madrid, he previously lived for a decade in China and speaks fluent Mandarin and Spanish. He is an alumnus of Logan and Yaddo fellowships and has received funding from organizations including Pulitzer and Ford Foundation. His half-hour film Down from the Mountains (2018) won a World Press Photo award. Other work has received recognition including Webby and One World Media Awards.

Máté Fuchs is a documentary filmmaker who graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in 2019. He has worked as a director and cinematographer on various films, documentaries, and other artistic projects. Additionally, he earned an MA degree in Literary and Cultural Studies from Eötvös Loránd University, where he also studied film theory, film history, and editing.

In 2023, he completed his first feature-length creative documentary, The Hatchery, supported by the National Film Institute. The film won the “Docs in Progress Award” at the Astra Film Lab pitch competition in 2021 and was shortlisted by the Sundance Documentary Fund program.

He is a founding member of the Hungarian Documentary Association (MADOKE), the FreeSzfe Association, and the Sandwich Bar community space and creative collective. Since 2022, he has been a co-producer of Planned Reality, a cultural magazine program on Tilos Radio.

Ida Marie Gedbjerg, born in 1990, is film director and anthropologist. She graduated from the international film school Doc Nomads in 2017. Along with her own projects, she teaches filmmaking at the youth film school Station Next. Her first documentary Qamar (2015) about a transgender refugee’s struggle won the first prize at Slemani International Festival 2017. Her graduation film In the Clouds (2018) was screened at DocLisboa-festival 2018.

Lilla Gyöngyösi was born in 1992 in Budapest. She is a cultural journalist and critic, editor-in-chief of Filmtekercs, editor of Litera. Her articles are regularly published in Filmvilág and Filmtett, too.

Sareen Hairabedian is an Armenian-Jordanian documentary filmmaker based in the U.S. Through her intimate observational filming style, she captures the untold stories of the underrepresented. Sareen Hairabedian founded her production company HAI Creative in 2016, through which she engages in international co-productions, and works with organizations and broadcasters such as Sesame Workshop, HBO, Wounded Warrior Project, and others. My Sweet Land (2024) is her debut feature-length documentary and has been supported by ITVS, ARTE, International Documentary Association, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture , Jordan Film Fund and CNC.

Sári Haragonics graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, with an MA in documentary film directing. She received her BA in media production in the UK. Her graduation film, Coming face to face won the ZOOM-IN competition at the Verzio International Documentary Festival in 2015. Her first feature-length documentary, Her Mothers (co-directed with Asia Dér), premiered at Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival in 2020 and has been screened at several festivals around the world. Sari is finishing her next documentary feature, Don’t worry, Sári! about understanding family dynamics and patterns, we carry on from our ancestors. She participated with her films at ZagrebDox Pro, Astra Film Lab, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, and Documentary Campus Masterschool. She is about to complete her Doctoral studies, researching how participatory video can affect our social relations and is working as a teacher at ELTE Media and Film Studies.

Director and writer of documentaries and feature films, Małgorzata Imielska has garnered significant acclaim for her work. Her feature film All for My Mother won Best Director and Best Feature Film awards at the IFF Dhaka 2020. Her documentary Love and Empty Words (2018) has also received numerous accolades, including the Grand Prix at the Hong Kong IFF, Best Documentary Award at the IFF in New Delhi, Best Women’s Film at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the Ekran Toronto Polish Film Festival.

Hanna Sára Kádár finished her degree in 2022 at VSMU in Bratislava as a documentary film director after she left her studies in Budapest due to the government’s attacks on the University of Theatre and Film Arts. ‘Visiting Mamajé’ is her graduation film where she explores her favourite topic, intergenerational relationships. Coming from a big family she is prone to observe family dynamics, functional and dysfunctional connections in families, her approach gives an intimate look at difficult relations without judgment. Her student film ‘Separated’ was screened at Verzió in 2021 as part of the freeSZFE section. In 2023, she was a jury member for the Young European Stories Section at FIPADOC. She is currently looking for topics to start to work on her first documentary out of university.

Attila Kékesi is a documentary film director and cinematographer. He graduated as a cinematographer (1996) and director (1999) at the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE), Budapest, where he also completed his doctorate and habilitation. He wrote his DLA thesis on the ethical responsibility of documentary filmmakers. He has been teaching at the University of Theatre and Film Arts since 2001 and has been a professor since 2023. He is the head of the Documentary Directing MA course (together with Tamás Almási), the Hungarian Course Director of the international DocNomads Joint Master programme and the Deputy Head of the DLA programme of the Doctoral School of the SZFE.
In his filmmaking career as a film director, he has made about 15 films, but he has also worked as a cinematographer, editor and producer on several films. His main works are "The Spirit of the Age" (1998), "The Face of the Revolution - In Search of a Budapest Girl" (2006), "Motalko - The Chronicle of a Petrol Station" (2011), "View from the Prison" (2012), "Close to Capa" (2014), "The Virtuoso" (2016). As a cinematographer: "tititá" (2015, directed by Tamás Almási). As an editor: "The End of the Road" (2003, directed by Tamás Almási). His films have been screened and awarded at several festivals. In 2010 he received the prestigious Hungarian professional acknowledgement "Béla Balázs Award".

Anja Koprivšek graduated from the Department of Documentary Directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Her first film I Love (2021) had its world premiere at Doclisboa and it was also screened at ZagrebDox, Pula Film Festival, STIFF and others. She won the Jelena Rajković Award for best director younger than 30 at the Croatian Film Days (2022), as well as Best Director Award at the Bistre Reke Festival (2022). Between 2022 and 2024, she worked as assistant coordinator for the international training initiative for directors and producers: CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator.

Eva Križková graduated in Film Studies at the Film and Television Faculty at VŠMU in Bratislava. She co-founded the distribution company Filmtopia and the magazine Kinečko, where she served as editor-in-chief for 10 years. Currently, she works as the director of the One World IDFF Slovakia and she has recently finished and premiered her feature documentary debut Birdhill. She is a member of the Presidency of Association of Slovak documentary films.

Born in Uzbekistan in 1974. In 2010, he graduated in documentary filmmaking at the Marina Razbezhkina Film School in Moscow. In 2012 he was one of the directors of the award-winning documentary Winter, Go Away!. His next films Leninland (2013), Children 404 (2014) and The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017) won critical acclaim and screened at numerous festivals. His work focuses on human rights issues and social conflicts in contemporary Russia.

Svitlana Lishchynska, born in Mariupol in 1970, worked for over 25 years for the leading television channels in Ukraine. In 2014, she opened a new chapter in her life by leaving television and immersing herself in screenwriting and filmmaking. Her first documentary works were short pieces for the Invisible Battalion (2017) anthology film in collaboration with the directors Alina Gorlova and Iryna Tsilyk. A Bit of a Stranger (2024) is her debut feature-length documentary and is based on her personal story.

Krisztián Marton was born in 1989 in Hungary. After graduating from drama school, he continued his studies at the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Television Production. As a screenwriter, he has worked on several Hungarian series, and his first novel, Bőgőmasina (Crybaby) was published in 2023.

Krisztina Meggyes is a Hungarian director, producer, and impact producer. She earned her Master’s Degree in Documentary Directing from the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) in Budapest in 2015 and is currently a doctoral student, researching social impact and ethics in documentary filmmaking. Krisztina has also taught Ethics in Documentary Film for DocNomads classes as a lecturer at SZFE.
She has participated in multiple international forums and training programs, including IDFAcademy, Documentary Campus Masterschool, DOK Co-Pro Market, and the Impact Distribution Essentials Lab (Doc Society).
n 2017, she co-founded Little Bus Production in Budapest, Hungary, a company that focuses primarily on young talent in both documentary and fiction filmmaking. Their first two feature-length fiction films, Christmas Flame and Riviera East, became the most-watched Hungarian films in cinemas in 2021 and 2022.
Currently, Little Bus Production is producing several feature-length documentaries, predominantly international co-productions. Among them are the Hungarian-French Under the Dance Floor, supported by Sundance, CNC, and the Hungarian-Slovakian My Father’s Daughter, supported by the Hungarian National Film Institute and Kultminor (SK). Their latest film, the Danish-Hungarian The Lost Notebook, supported by the Danish Film Institute, premiered at CPH:DOX in 2024 and will be screened at the Verzió Film Festival.

Film critic and film journalist. Since 2004, a member of Index’s culture section and one of the founders of the then-emerging Cinematrix. From 2005, his film writings appeared in Pesti Est and Pesti Műsor. Between 2006 and 2015, he was a film critic for Origo Filmklub, and until 2022, a contributor to the Filmklub podcast. He is part of the programming team for BIFF (Budapest International Film Festival) and has worked as a moderator for Budapest Ritmo and Verzió Film Festival. Currently, he writes film reviews for Revizor.

Ádám Miklós is the co-founder of Arrabona Studio in Hungary. His first film, Dolma's Daughters, gives an insight into the lives of nuns in Nepal. His documentary The Legacy of Menla explores the daily lives of Tibetan doctors in India, while Tcha follows the journey of a blind Belgian gypsy musician as he becomes a master of the nation’s traditional music style. In his films, Miklós contributes not only as a director but also as a cinematographer and editor. His most recent documentary, Beyond Rock Bottom, was made with the support of the National Film Institute's Incubator Programme and premiered at the 2024 Warsaw Film Festival.

Dávid Mikulán is an Intermedia artist and filmmaker who graduated from the Fine Art University, Budapest. Making films since age 12, his artistic practice is influenced by skateboarding, punk music, Fluxus, video art and experimental music. His work's main focus is how public spaces have an effect on social structures. As a volunteer and filmmaker, he has worked together with NGOs and human rights organizations.

Anna Mkrtumyan is a documentary filmmaker from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). She has participated in various international peacebuilding programs and was part of an independent documentary film studio in Armenia. Currently, she is pursuing her Master’s degree in documentary filmmaking through the 'DocNomads' Joint Master's program. Anna's work focuses on shedding light on the situation in her homeland, raising awareness about the injustices and struggles faced by the people of Artsakh.

Eszter Nagy has been working as a colorist for many years in several internationally acclaimed productions from Hungary. After collecting professional experience in Los Angeles and New-Zealand, in 2014 she opened Karmazin Film, her own post-production studio. She’s graded films such as the Oscar-winner short ’Sing’ (2017), Karlovy Vary feature titles such as Kills on Wheels (2016) or The Wednesday Child (2015), the critically acclaimed HBO TV series Golden Life (2015-2018) or the multi-award winning documentary Drifter (2014, IDFA, Jihlava, goEast). Cabin Pressure is her directorial debut.

Maja Novaković is a Ph.D. candidate studying Sergei Parajanov’s poetics of heritage. Her debut, Then Comes the Evening, premiered at Visions du Reel (2019) and secured an OSCAR® qualification by winning at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. It received over 50 awards, was screened at 130+ festivals- such as Hot Docs, Sarajevo FF, SFFILM, Camerimage, Jihlava- and made the Cinema Eye Honors nomination and Doc NYC Short List. She is a Sarajevo Talents and IDFAcademy alumna.

Journalist, editor, and podcast host at Filmhu. She earned her degree in Film Theory and Film History at ELTE, then worked for several years at Daazo, the company responsible for the Friss Hús International Short Film Festival. She regularly participates in both domestic and international film festivals and organizes film events and screenings in Budapest. Her latest project is Kontra, an alternative film distribution association.

Botond Püsök graduated as a film director from Sapientia University in Cluj-Napoca, Department of Film, Photography and Media. In 2016 he won the best director award for his short documentary Angela at the Astra International Film Festival and DocuArt Film Festival, too. Botond finished his master’s degree studies in documentary film directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, SZFE Budapest. His first feature-length documentary, Too Close, premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2022, and throughout its festival life it already won 3 international awards. Botond’s main interest is the field of creative and observational documentary, character driven stories focusing on human rights and exploring the boundaries of humanity in challenging life situations.

Bálint Révész is the founder behind a handful of film related organizations such as Gallivant Film, Roughhouse Project, Kontra and Kulturlink. Révész’ films focus on controversial subject matter and are meticulously produced; his first feature documentary Granny Project (2017) was 7 years in the making and has since received numerous awards. Révész is the director/producer behind KIX.

Anna Rubi, born in Hungary, studied media design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and in 2015 graduated from the Zürich University of the Arts at transdisciplinary studies (MA). Her collaborative web-documentary New Flower (2015) explores activism infused public space art in the ever urbanizing Addis Ababa. In the period of 2017-2022 she was the videographer of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, extensively working with disabled communities and activists on short documentaries and campaigns. Your Life Without Me (2024) is her debut feature length documentary that premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival and won the Human Rights award.

Alex Shiriaieff is a seasoned expert in the European non-scripted content film market, with almost 30 years of experience producing and directing documentary content that focuses on the post-Soviet region and Eastern Europe — his main areas of expertise. For the past 10 years, Alex served as the Head of Operations and CEO at B2B Doc - Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network. During this time, he became proficient in navigating fragile and vulnerable territories, consistently achieving impactful results. Currently, Alex is the Chief Producer at EuroArctic Media Group, a Sweden-based production house with associates located in all Nordic and Baltic countries. It crafts creative documentaries for theatrical distribution, as well as factual content for global TV and streaming platforms. Alex leverages his unique ability to seamlessly bridge two worlds — the East and the West. This fusion enables him to deliver compelling, relevant, and topical film stories that resonate with a broad international audience. Under Alex's leadership, EuroArctic Media Group embodies Nordic production excellence while championing freedom of speech and democratic values in every frame.

Alina Simone is a Ukrainian-born journalist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Long Read, among many others. Her articles have been featured on best-of lists in The Atlantic, NPR and Rolling Stone, and have been optioned for film by major studios. She is the author of an essay collection and a novel, and has taught writing at Yale University. Simone is the recipient of the Andrew Berends Film Fellowship, an NYSCA/NYFA Film Fellowship and the Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. Black Snow (2024) is her first documentary feature film.

Marta Smerechynska (1997) is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. She holds academic degrees from I.K. Karpenko-Kary University in Kyiv, La Fémis in Paris, and the DocNomads Erasmus Master's program in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Her films have been screened at over 30 festivals, including Visions du Réel, Sarajevo Film Festival, DMZ Docs, PÖFF Shorts, and FipaDoc. Marta's feature-length debut documentary focuses on reconnecting with her sister, who has become a nun, by exploring life in her new home—a remote women's monastery in the West of Ukraine. Recently, Marta has been focusing on portraying various facets of the Ukrainian wartime experience in her films.

Gergő Somogyvári is a Budapest-based cinematographer and documentary director with a deep-rooted background in photography and journalism. Graduating in 2008 from the University of Film and Drama (SZFE) as a cinematographer, he has since dedicated 14 years to both fiction and documentary filmmaking. As a director of photography, his work spans a wide array of projects, and he has directed five documentaries that have been screened internationally across TV platforms and film festivals. His first feature-length documentary, Fairy Garden, premiered at the Sarajevo International Film Festival in 2023,  explores a trans person's struggle within contemporary Hungarian society. The film went on to win both the Best Hungarian Documentary Award and the Audience Award at the 20th Verzió Film Festival.

Marek Šulík studied documentary film direction at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. After finishing his studies, he established himself primarily as an editor of documentary films that received worldwide acclaim at important festivals. He collaborated on feature projects directed by Peter Kerekes (66 seasons, Cooking History, Velvet Terrorists), Martin Kollár (October 5), Viera Čákanyová (FREM, White on White), Filip Remunda (Czech Journal, Meet the Movie), and many more. In addition, he worked on his own directing projects. His work includes films with social themes, educational films, portrait work, ethnographic documentaries, and films that work with found footage.

Sarah Ticho is a multi-award-winning artist, strategist, entrepreneur, and change-maker operating at the intersection of health, well-being, and immersive storytelling. She directs and produces XR experiences, including SOUL PAINT. Narrated by actor and activist Rosario Dawson, the piece has garnered international accolades, including the SXSW Special Jury Prize in the competition and Best Health and Wellness at The Games for Change Awards in 2024.

Julianna Ugrin – the EFA nominated producer is the founder of Éclipse Film, a company focusing on creative documentaries for the Hungarian and international market. Films produced by her, like A Woman Captured, Easy Lessons or The Next Guardian were screened, nominated and awarded at festivals like Sundance, IDFA, Locarno, Hot Docs, or Sheffield. Julianna is fascinated by the magic of real life that drives her to produce high-quality documentary films. She holds a doctorate from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, where she has been teaching for ten years in the MA in Documentary Film. In 2019 she was selected for Producers on the Move in Cannes. A EURODOC and an EAVE graduate, president of the Hungarian Documentary Association, Chair of the board of DAE and a member of the European Film Academy.

Shoghakat Vardanyan was born in 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. Vardanyan is a professional musician, graduating in 2014 from the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan with a Bachelor’s in Piano. Since 2017, she has been playing free improvisations and has become a part of the Contemporary Sound Orchestra of Yerevan. She participated in the EurasiaDoc Armenia workshop, as well as the DocTrain Armenia Workshop, where she was mentored by the Russian filmmaker and producer Marina Razbezhkina. 1489 (2023) is her first film.

Chloe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer and director of Whalebone Films. Her films are intimate, considered portraits, focusing mainly on the female experience.
Her clients and partners include the Guardian, Topic, Nowness, BBC, Channel 4, Oxfam, Save the Children and the BFI and she has had films screen at festivals internationally including at Camden International Film Festival, Open City, and Sheffield Doc Fest. Chloe lectures on the MA Ethnographic and Documentary Film at University College London, and has also given talks and workshops at the London College of Communication, the BFI, Frontline Club, and the Roundhouse. She is a fellow of the Macdowell Colony and BFI Doc/Next.

Matthäus Wörle studied journalism at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and received a video journalism scholarship from the Mediaschool Bayern. After that, he studied documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich. He has worked for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Nautilusfilm. Now he is a freelance director and video journalist. His films have been screened and awarded at numerous national and international film festivals.

Born and raised in Kabul, Ilyas Yourish began his career as a multimedia journalist and TV show producer in 2011, while studying at the Journalism Faculty of Kabul University. He founded Kamay Film in Afghanistan in 2018 with the goal of producing films centered on themes of identity, trauma, history, and memory, with a particular focus on his homeland and its people. In 2021, he was forced into exile to Belgium, where he has since lived and worked. His latest documentary Kamay (2024) premiered at Visions du Réel.

Dorottya Zurbó is a film director and university teacher in Budapest, Hungary.
Her most recent feature length documentary (co-directed by Arun Bhattarai), Agent of Happiness debuted at Sundance Film Festival 2024 where it was a Grand Jury Prize nominee. The film is a playful exploration of Bhutan’s happiness index policy through the journey of a happiness agent. The film has won awards at the San Francisco FF, the Margaret Mead FF, Biografilm, Millenium Docs Against Gravity Festival, MakeDox and MAMI. It has played at over 100 film festivals around the world (CPH:DOX; Sheffield; HotDocs, IDFA, Sydney FF, Zurich FF, Thessaloniki IDF, DocsBarcelona, Durban IFF, MAMI etc.). It has also been theatrically released and will be distributed on leading digital platforms.
Dorottya’s first feature-length documentary The Next Guardian (co-directed by Arun Bhattarai), - an intimate family story set in Bhutan - premiered at IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam in the First Appearance Competition in 2017. Since then, it has been screened at more than 40 international festivals (True/False, San Francisco IFF, MoMA DocFortnight etc.). Parallelly, she worked on her first directorial debut Easy Lessons, a feature-length documentary about a young Somalian refugee girl who tries to adapt to Hungary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival Critics Week section in 2018. The film participated in more than 40 international festivals (HotDocs, Sarajevo IFF, Camden IDFF etc.) receiving awards such as the Hungarian Critics Award for Best Documentary in 2019.
She graduated from the first edition of DocNomads Joint Master in documentary directing for which she was awarded full Erasmus Mundus scholarship in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels in 2014. She also holds a PhD degree in the field of documentary and transmedia from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. She is a Berlinale Talent and took part in the Nipkow Fellowship program. Beside filmmaking, in the last 10 years she has been teaching and mentoring at the prestigious DocNomads Joint Master program in Europe.

Agnieszka Zwiefka is an award-winning filmmaker. Her films The Queen of Silence (2014) and Scars (2020) were screened at festivals worldwide. Zwiefka creates films that border between documentary and fiction, balancing reality and fantasy. She is a member of European Film Academy and alumna of workshops Dok.Incubator, ScripTeast, Nipkow Programme and Berlinale Talents as well as Meryl Streep’s and Nicole Kidman’s The Writers Lab.