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A sziget

Adam Weingrod a Tel Aviv-i Egyetem filmkészítő mesterszakán diplomázott. Egész estés dokumentumfilmje, a The Island elnyerte az Izraeli Dokumentumfilm Gálán a legjobb diákfilm díját 2017-ben, majd eljutott számos nemzetközi filmfesztiválra. Jelenleg a következő egész estés dokumentumfilmjén dolgozik.

Anyámat követve

Rana Abu Fraiha a jeruzsálemi Bezalel Egyetem építészszakán végzett 2012-ben, majd filmszakán 2015-ben. 2016-ban rendezett és vágott egy videót, a Residues-t, a haifai Beit HaGefen Központ Vanishing Point című kiállítása részeként. Filmet és művészetet tanít fiataloknak.

The Workers Cup

Adam Sobel is a writer and filmmaker living in Qatar. In 2013 he made a documentary series following the first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mt. Everest. The series won a 2014 CINE Golden Eagle. Since 2013 Adam has served as an advisor for Northwestern University in Qatar's film grant program.

In Her Footsteps

Rana Abu Fraiha graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design with a degree in Architecture in 2012, and finished her study in video at Bezalel’s Screen Arts Department in 2015. In 2016 she directed and edited a video, Residues, for the "Vanishing Point" exhibition in Beit HaGefen, Haifa, Israel. She currently teaches film and arts to young people.

The Island

Adam Weingrod is a graduate of the MFA program in Film at Tel Aviv University. His feature documentary, The Island, won Best Student Film at the Israeli Documentary Film Awards in 2017, and was screened in several international film festivals. He is currently working on his next documentary feature.

The Long Season

Leonard Retel Helmrich was born in the Netherlands, in 1959. He graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 1986. Retel Helmrich’s films have screened and won acclaim at film festivals worldwide, and have won major documentary film awards including: the Sundance inaugural Grand World Documentary Award 2005, the Special Jury Award for World Documentary 2011, and the prestigious Grand Joris Ivens Award, IDFA Amsterdam 2004 and 2010.

The Poetess

Stefanie Brockhaus is an independent filmmaker from Munich. She graduated from London College of Communications, University of the Arts with a BA in Film and Television in 2002, and the Munich University of Television and Film in 2016. She has worked on numerous awarded documentaries as a producer and director.

Andreas Wolff studied at USC's Graduate School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, and at HFF University for TV and Film in Munich. His debut On the Other Side of Life, co-directed with Stefanie Brockhaus, premiered in 2010 at SXSW film festival. His second feature documentary, The Captain and His Pirate (2013) won the German Camera Award for Best Editing at Berlinale and further awards in Leipzig, Zagreb, Saarbrucken, Munich and Brussels.

Raven

Shukri Muhammad Mahmood was born in 1985 in Duhok. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in 2008, and from the Theatre Department of the University of Duhok in 2014.

Sand and Blood

Matthias Krepp studied Comparative Literature and History, and joined Michael Haneke's directing class at the Vienna Film Academy in 2012. During his studies he directed several short films in collaboration with Angelika Spangel and Magdalena Gruber. Sand and Blood is his first feature-length documentary film.

Angelika Spangel was born in 1987. She is an Austrian filmstudent of cinematography. She studied Educational Science and received her degree in 2012. Since 2013 she has studied cinematography with Wolfgang Thaler at the Vienna Film Academy. She has worked on several short films with Matthias Krepp and Magdalena Gruber.

Watani: My Homeland

Marcel Mettelsiefen is a director, cameraman, photographer and producer. His films on the civil war in Syria, such as Syria: Children on the Frontline (2014), Children on the Frontline: The Escape (2016) and Watani: My Homeland (2016), earned him critical praise and recognition. Mettelsiefen won two BAFTA and two Emmy awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Documentary Short Subject for Watani: My Homeland.

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