French

Fernand Melgar was born in 1961, in Tangiers, Morocco. He has lived in Lausanne since 1963, and has worked as an independent director and producer since 1985. In 2006, his film, Exit: The Right To Die, received the Swiss Film Prize for Best Documentary Film. And in 2012, his film, Vol special, was awarded the Swiss Film Prize for Best Documentary Film.

Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018) was a French journalist, writer, and film director best known for Shoah (1985), a nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Holocaust. As a teenager he joined the French Resistance and fought against the Nazis. After WWII, he studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen, later taught at the Free University, and began writing for Le Monde on the persistence of Nazism. Lanzmann directed several films on the Holocaust and Israel, using firsthand interviews to construct his narratives. His distinctions include the Resistance Medal with rosette, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit. Lanzmann is one of the few French intellectuals and artists of international stature whose body of work left its mark on millions of viewers all over the world. His memoirs, The Patagonian Hare was published in 2009.

Ruth Beckermann studied journalism and art history in Vienna, Tel Aviv and New York, and earned her doctorate in 1977 at the University of Vienna. She contributed as a journalist to several Austrian and Swiss magazines. In 1978 she cofounded the distribution company, Filmladen, in which she was active for seven years. Since 1985 she works as a writer and filmmaker. Her film The Dreamed Ones was screened widely and won several awards. Her latest film, The Waldheim Waltz, won, among other prizes, the Glashütte-Original Documentary Award at Berlinale (2018).

Yossi Aviram izraeli író és rendező, 1971-ben született Jeruzsálemben. Szülővárosában szerezte meg diplomáját, a Sam Spiegel Film & Television School-ban. Yossi Aviram kettéválasztja a karrierjét, megkülönbözteti azokat a munkákat, amelyekben, mint operatőr vett részt és a saját rendezéseit. 1998-ban, a Year of Israel in France lehetősége kapcsán részt vett egy kulturális csereprogramban a jól ismert francia filmiskolával, a La Fémis-el. Az itt töltött négy hét alatt megrendezte második rövidfilmjét, az Anna-t. Első filmes munkája, a The Dune a Haifa Filmfesztiválon megnyerte a Legjobb Elsőfilmes díjat illetve beválasztották a San Sebastian és a San Francisco-ban helyet kapó filmfesztiválokra is.