Máté Bartha is a Budapest-based visual artist working in photography and documentary film. He graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design with a Master's degree in photography and later studied documentary filmmaking at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. His work combines documentary observation, staged situations and visual experimentation. His Kontakt series received the Robert Capa Grand Prize Hungary in 2018 and the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2019.

Bernadett Benkó is a final-year MA student in Documentary Film Directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. Her work explores personal stories, family relationships and memory, as well as questions of identity, authenticity and our relationship to social norms. She often works with family archive footage, combining observational documentary filmmaking with a personal, essayistic perspective.

Kitti Fődi is a Hungarian journalist and documentary filmmaker. She studied media and communication in Budapest and documentary filmmaking in Norway. As a video journalist, she has focused primarily on social issues including education, poverty, healthcare, and disability. Bakpakk is her first documentary film.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter is an Austrian filmmaker, cinematographer and producer known for his precise observational documentaries. Since founding his production company in 1994, he has made films including Pripyat, Our Daily Bread, Homo Sapiens and Matter Out of Place.

Martin Herr is a Hungarian filmmaker who graduated from the international DocNomads documentary programme in 2025. Before turning to filmmaking, he worked as a video journalist at Partizán. His work explores the space between the personal and the social, often blending intimate observation with experimental forms.

Ákos K. Kovács is a Hungarian filmmaker and director whose work includes documentary, music and fiction projects. His documentary work often focuses on cultural communities and contemporary Hungarian social realities. He directed Színház sárból and is also one of the directors of the upcoming feature Extázis Uncut.

Ross McClean is a Belfast-born filmmaker who studied creative documentary through the DocNomads programme in Canada, Hungary, Portugal and Belgium. His short films Hydebank, Echo and No Mean City have premiered at major documentary festivals, while Magilligan is his debut feature-length documentary.

Bill Morrison is an American filmmaker whose work is deeply rooted in archival and found footage. He is best known for Decasia, Dawson City: Frozen Time and Incident. His films explore memory, history and the material life of images; Incident won the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Film Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Dorottya Márton is a Budapest-based documentary and experimental filmmaker. She studied documentary film directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest and often works with personal archives, found footage and unconventional documentary forms. Her films explore intimate social questions through a highly personal visual approach.

Piotr Pawlus is a Polish cinematographer, documentary director, photographer and painter. He worked as cinematographer on Sergei Loznitsa’s The Invasion and Champ de Mars, and co-directed In Ukraine (2023), which premiered at the Berlinale. His work often combines observational documentary practice with a strong visual sensitivity to landscape and aftermath.

Attila Ponczók is a Hungarian documentary filmmaker and producer. He previously worked as a producer on Ghetto Balboa, which premiered in competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2018. Papa is his feature directorial debut and grew out of his family’s own experience with the Hungarian elderly care system.

Dáša Raimanová is a Slovakia-born, London- and Berlin-based documentary filmmaker whose work explores socio-political issues, particularly the experiences of women and minorities. Her films include Polyland and Across the Road – Worlds Apart.

Afsaneh Salari is an Iranian documentary filmmaker, editor and producer based between Tehran and Paris. She is the co-founder of Docmaniacs and an alumna of La Fémis, Berlinale Talents, IDFA Academy and DocNomads. Her previous documentary The Silhouettes premiered at Visions du Réel, where it received a Jury Special Mention.

Anton Shtuka is a Ukrainian documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Kyiv. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, he has documented stories from Ukraine for international media including The Guardian, Reuters, AP, Bloomberg and The Times.

Albie Swingler is a creative producer and director. For the past six years, he has been working in documentaries for broadcast TV, independent feature film, digital media, and podcasts, pitching, developing, and producing content for a range of platforms and channels: BBC, Channel 4, BFI Doc Society, Channel 4, Netflix, A24, Prime Video, and Apple TV.
During this time, he has traveled worldwide, working on a range of access-led documentaries in Europe, the US, Mexico, and Panama. Albie has successfully gained access to a wide range of individuals and institutions - from some of the most notorious prisons in California, to cult members, to politicians, and the world’s first all-trans female football team.
Albie received BFI Doc Society Made of Truth funding to direct a short film, ‘Miss Sarajevo Returns,’ about the winner of a beauty pageant held during the Bosnian War. This has been acquired by The Guardian and will run at the festival later this year. His second short documentary, ‘The Garden We Made’, is the winner of the 2026 Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. Albie is also one of Broadcast Magazine’s Hot Shots 2025.

Sára Timár is a Hungarian filmmaker, photographer and historian. She holds a Master's degree in History from ELTE University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and later studied photography and fine arts at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Her photographic work has been exhibited internationally, and Under the Dance Floor is her debut documentary feature.

Olivér Márk Tóth is a Hungarian journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has worked as a video journalist for Hungarian and German media outlets and has been making documentaries since 2017, often focusing on rebellious and unconventional characters. His work has received the Hégető Honorka Award, and Meant to Be is his first feature-length documentary.

Béla Váradi is a UK-based Romani photographer and visual artist whose documentary practice focuses on identity, inequality, human rights and the politics of representation.