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My Unknown Soldier

Anna Kryvenko is an artist working with video and fine art photography. She studied theatre directing at KNUTKT (Ukraine), and alternative theatre directing at DAMU (CZ). She is currently a student at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. Her films and performances have been screened at the Fluidum Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Intermedia BB, and Visions du Reél.

Jawline

Liza Mandelup is a film director from New York currently residing in Los Angeles. She has published two photo books and has shown her work in numerous exhibitions. She has been a longtime collaborator with many online platforms, such as Vogue, Nowness, i-D, and Dazed. Mandelup was featured on Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film 2017”, and recently won the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker.

Illusions

Kornelijus Matuzevičius graduated from Russian State Institute of Cinematography as a cameraman in 1971. Since 1970 he has been working at Lithuanian Film Studio as a director of photography for documentary film productions. For the films created together with Henrikas Šablevičius he was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize in 1990.

Diana Matuzevičienė studied at Stepas Žukas Arts and Crafts Polytechnic, attended the Juozas Miltinis‘s drama studio, studied Directing at Leningrad State Theatre, Music and Cinematography Institute. She worked at the Lithuania Film Studio as an assistant director and participated in groups making feature, educational and documentary films with Robertas Verba, Linas Lazėnas, Viktoras Starošas, Henrikas Šablevičius, Raimondas Vabalas, Algirdas Araminas and others.

Fair Traders

Born in Italy, Nino Jacusso moved to Switzerland as a child. He earned a degree in filmmaking from the College of Television and Film in Munich, Germany, and has since worked as a freelance filmmaker.

Fish

Abuzar Soltani was born in 1982 Iran into a family of workers and artists. As a teenager, he learned photography, painting and calligraphy from his brothers. He is a public relations professional, who was involved in many social activities. With his then 7-year-old son, he was forced to leave his country three years ago due to his differing views on freedom of thought. They fled towards Europe, facing extremely difficult immigration procedures. During the journey he met Hassan Fazili, a filmmaker from Afghanistan, who taught him filmmaking. Today Abouzar and his now 10-year old son are detained in a so-called transit zone for asylum-seekers at the southern border of Hungary. The only filmmaking tool he has is his mobile phone. He made two short narrative films, featuring his son. His second film, Fish, was made in the transit zone. Abouzar gained his experience with making movies by shooting a number of documentaries. He has received multiple awards for his photography and painting art.

Free University

Born in the UK, Jonathan Hunter moved to Budapest in 2016, and studied documentary filmmaking and philosophy at Central European University. Hunter has made educational content, several commercial videos and short documentaries. He now works as a freelance filmmaker and videographer in Florence, Italy.

Ghetto Balboa

Árpád Bogdán began his career in acting and stage directing while in college, when he also organized creative workshops for disadvantaged children. His directorial debut, Happy New Life, premiered in the Panorama section at Berlinale 2007, and was awarded the Manfred Salzgeber Award - Special Mention. His latest feature-length fiction, Genesis, also premiered at Berlinale, in 2018, and won a number of awards.

Selected filmography:

2018 - Genesis

2007 - Happy New Life

The Gleaners and I

Agnès Varda was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1928. She studied at the École du Louvre and took evening classes in photography at the École de Vaugirard. She became a photographer for Jean Vilar when he founded the Avignon Theater Festival in 1948, then for the Théâtre National Populaire at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. She held her first personal exhibition in 1954 in the courtyard of her home. That same year, Agnès Varda made the move to cinema without any formal training. She founded Ciné Tamaris (a cooperative) to produce and direct her first feature, La Pointe Courte. She directed short films and features, both fiction and documentaries. In 2003, she began her third career as a visual artist at the Venice Biennale.

Gods of Molenbeek

Reetta Huhtanen is a filmmaker based in Helsinki. She studied Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and went on to obtain an MA in documentary film directing from the ELO Film School at Aalto University, Finland, where she is currently a doctoral student.

Hacked - Non-existing Tribe, Gets Lost

Dávid Kresalek has been working in films since 1997, first as a screenwriter than since 2000, as a director. He has worked on many documentary films and TV-series as a director and editor. He has been the co-leader of the film and media vocational training group at the Green Rooster Secondary School.