Claire Denis

Claire Denis was born in Paris and spent her childhood in Cameroon. At the age of 12, she was introduced to arthouse cinema by a cinephile teacher. After graduating from IDEC, she worked as an assistant director with Robert Enrico (LE VIEUX FUSIL and L’EMPREINTE DES GÉANTS) and Wim Wenders (PARIS, TEXAS and LES AILES DU DÉSIR). At that time she met Agnès Godard, Wenders’ camera assistant, who accompanied her throughout her career. Her first film, CHOCOLAT , about racial tensions in colonial Africa, was nominated for the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival and the César Award and received wide critical acclaim. For her films NÉNETTE ET BONI, UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR , LES SALAUDS, HIGH LIFE starring Robert Pattinson, STARS AT NOON and AVEC AMOUR ET ACHARNEMENT she was awarded numerous film prizes such as the Silver Lion, the Silver Bear, FIPRESCI and the Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival.

Participation: Konferenz Cinema of Care

Marek Hovorka

Marek Hovorka was born in the Czech Republic and graduated in documentary film studies at FAMU Prague, where he also gave a seminar on film festival studies. He is founder and director of Ji.hlava IDFF, one of the largest film festival in central and eastern Europe, which is known for its innovative dedication for authors and experimental non-fiction cinema, innovative approach and original-designed industry programmes (Emerging Producers, Ji.hlava Academy, Festival Identity, New Visions Forum). At Ji.hlava 2022 he organized the first edition of Conference on Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking with the aim to spark dialogue on important ethical issues. Marek is co-founder of Doc Alliance and has served on juries at FID Marseille, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Visions du réel Nyon, CPH:DOX, Torino Film Festival, It´s all true – IDFM Sao Paolo and many more. He is a member of the European Film Academy and Czech Film and Television Academy.

Participation: Konferenz Cinema of Care

Prof. Dr. Isabell Lorey

Isabell Lorey is a political theorist and a Queer Studies Professor at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne and is an editor for transversal texts (transversal.at), the publication platform of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). She is the author of several books, including State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious (2015), and Democracy in the Political Present. A Queer-Feminist Theory (2022).

Participation: Konferenz Cinema of Care

Elke Marhöfer

Elke Marhöfer is an artist. Via the potentialities of moving image and suppositious writing she works with notions of self-admitted foreignness and radical othering. She offers a fresh view on art and media that emphasizes the consistency between environment and technology. Testing for example nonhuman perspectives, which translate a technology like the camera, from a human cultural and technical device into an extension of the intensive forces within the surrounding environment. Here the camera becomes a tool, which is in principle not different from nonhuman animal tools, similar to orangutans using leaves to make squeaky kiss noises. Elke was awarded a PhD by the University of Gothenburg, pursued a post-doctoral research at the Kyoto University Japan and has received fellowships and grants from the Whitney ISP New York, IASPIS, Akademie Schloss Solitude, etc. Her films have been screened at Jeu de Paume Paris, BFI London, Berlinale, IFF Rotterdam, Courtisane Ghent, Images Toronto, Cinematek Brussels, Stockholm, Toronto and Tokyo.

Participation: Konferenz Cinema of Care

Abby Sun

Abby Sun is the Director of Artist Programs at IDA – International Documentary Association. The curation of DocYard was her most recent occupation. As a graduate researcher in the MIT Open Documentary Lab she edited “Immerse” from 2020-2022. She also co-curated “My Sight is Lined with Visions: 1990s Asian American Film & Video with Keisha Knight”. Expanding on the latter’s programmatic urges, Abby and Keisha launched Line of Sight, a suite of artist development activities in 2021. Throughout her work Abby examines the power dynamics in the documentary forms inherent smudging of reality with a particular focus on media infrastructures and cultural artifacts of moving image exhibition. She has served on festival juries for Hot Docs, Dokufest, Cleveland, Palm Springs, New Orleans, and CAAMfest. Abby has reviewed artist and project applications for Brown Girls Doc Mafia, National Endowment for the Arts, SFFILM, LEF Foundation, Sundance Catalyst, IDFA Forum and the Princess Grace Foundation.

Participation: Konferenz Cinema of Care

Jürgen Brüning

Jürgen Brüning is a Berlin-based film producer and director. Helming projects by queer luminaries like Dennis Cooper, Cheryl Dunye, Thunska Pansittivorakul, G.B. Jones, Shu Lea Cheang, Maria Beatty, Emilie Jouvet, Lior Shamriz, and Ela Troyano, Brüning produced Bruce LaBruce’s debut feature, NO SKIN OFF MY ASS and most of the filmmaker’s subsequent projects. He is also the director of KLAPPE (2022).

Participation: Missing in Action

Elke Lehrenkrauss

Elke Lehrenkrauss is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin. She studied film & arts at the KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne and video art at the HSLU University of Art and Design Lucerne. Until 2012, she worked exclusively artistically in the field of photography/installation. During a 1-year residency at the EICTV, Cuba’s film academy, she began to develop hybrid forms, exploring the boundaries and possibilities of the documentary. Her films and works have been exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries worldwide and won numerous awards. Her film LOVEMOBIL is her feature-length debut, which had its international premiere at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival / Semaine de la Critique. It caused discussions about the limits of documentary films in spring of 2020. Currently, she is preparing two new feature films. www.lehrenkrauss.com

Participation: Missing in Action

Valentin Merz

Valentin Merz is a filmmaker and founder of the production company Andrea Film. He also acts in his own productions and films like the current theatrical release UNREST. He was born 1985 in Zurich, where his mother from Istanbul migrated to. He worked in Mexico City as a typographer and in Berlin in cinema and theatre. In 2014 he studied film at Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva. His short films were screened at festivals around the world. His film BRÜDER – EIN FAMILIENFILM premiered at Visions du Réel 2020. DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS is Merz’s feature debut which premiered in 2022 in Locarno, where it won a Special Mention for Best First Feature. Since then it has been screened at international festivals including Rotterdam, Thessaloniki, Sevilla and São Paulo.

Participation: Missing in Action

Yaela Gottlieb

Yaela Gottlieb is a Peruvian filmmaker based in Buenos Aires. Her work explores photography, cinema and video from the crossroads between territory, displacement, and (dis)constructors of identity. Since 2018, through the design of exhibitions, curatorial work and workshops, she seeks to expand and experiment the concept of institution in shanty towns and the diffusion and archive of the audiovisual arts. Her works have been part of Punto de Vista, FICValdivia, Proa21, Lima Film Festival, DocBuenosAires, MAR Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival among others. She has won the Juan Downey Award, Bienal Arte Joven, The National Funds of Artes, among others. In 2021, she released her first feature film as a director NO HAY REGRESO A CASA.

Participation: Missing in Action

Caroline Kirberg

For over ten years, Caroline Kirberg has been working as a freelance producer, creative producer and production manager for artistic films. In 2011, her first feature film in in-house production, DAS SCHLAFENDE MÄDCHEN, premiered at the Berlinale. In 2014 she joined the production platform pong Film, which is responsible for the internationally acclaimed films REVISION, HAVARIE and EUROPE by Philip Scheffner and Merle Kröger. In her collaborations with film artists such as Mareike Bernien, Dani Gal, Stephan Geene, Alex Gerbaulet, Assaf Gruber, Rainer Komers, Volker Sattel, Clarissa Thieme and Clemens von Wedemeyer, she pursues her interest in hybrid forms between art and film as well as documentary and fiction. She is a founding member of the main association Cinephilie.

Participation: Aesthetics of Care

Leonor Noivo

Leonor Noivo studied photography and music at Macao School of Arts. Afterwards she moved to Lisbon and studied architecture before joining Film School (ESTC) with focus on editing and directing. The Atelier Varan and the cinéma vérité school became a descriptive artistic influence on her films. Her written films EXCURSÃO (Best Film IndieLisboa 2007) and SETEMBRO (Locarno 2016) ran on many festivals around the world. Her recent works merge fiction and documentary: RAPOSA (2019) premiered at FID Marseille (Special Mention from Juries Marseille Esperance and Georges Beauregard), as well as MADRUGADA which premiered at Rotterdam IFF and received several awards and nominations including the pre-candidacy for the European Film Awards. Noivo is co-founder of Terratreme, a filmmakers collective created in 2008 with other five partners, where she works on other directors’ projects alongside with her own. Currently Noivo is pre-producing her debut feature, FILIPINAS.

Participation: Aesthetics of Care

Brieuc Schieb

Born in 1995, Brieuc Schieb studied aesthetics at Sorbonne before entering Paris Arts Décos. His work moves between films and installations and is built around characters, environments or pre-existing material. His displays are inspired by popular formats like role plays and real-life soaps. In doing so, he generates collective and participative experiences in order to transform the initial scenario. For LA TOURBIÈRE, which he directed in 2019, he was inspired by local news during a traditional britain carnival. The film premiered at the FID Marseille and in several festivals and institutions such as the Centre Pompidou and the Cinémathèque. In a longer format called KOBAN LOUZOU he depicts a participatory isolated workcamp. First shown at the FIFIB 2022, the film received the André S. Labarthe Grand Prize at the Entrevues in Belfort. Brieuc Schieb lives in Paris and works at Ateliers Wonder.

Participation: Aesthetics of Care

Daniel Bird

Daniel Bird studied Psychology and Philosophy at Keele University and got a Master’s degree in Philosophy at Warwick University. He has programmed retrospectives on Walerian Borowczyk, Andrzej Żuławski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Věra Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová, Juraj Jakubisko among others. Bird was involved in various restoration projects, including Borowczyk’s THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE, Żuławski’s ON THE SILVER GLOBE, Aleksei German’s KHRUSTALYOV, MY CAR!, Sergei Parajanov’s short films, Peter Weir’s PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, and Stephen Sayadian’s DR. CALIGARI. In 2019, he devised an installation featuring outtakes from PARAJANOV’S THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES, “Temple of Cinema #1: Sayat Nova Outtakes”, which was presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He published in Sight and Sound, Film Comment and recently, Animus Magazine and works as a consultant for distributors including Second Sight Films and The Criterion Collection. Daniel Bird is the co-founder of “Friends of Walerian Borowczyk”.

Participation: Midnight Metabolism

Sara Neidorf

Sara Neidorf (b. 1990, Philadelphia) is the co-founder, director and curator of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, which screens horror films made by women and non-binary filmmakers. The festival celebrated its 8th edition in February 2023 and has held screenings and talks at dozens of cinemas, museums, and universities internationally. She formerly co-curated the monthly double feature, Queer Film Klub (2012-2018, Berlin), which hosted such bills as Cyberpunk Post-Porn, Queer Horror, Dykes of New Queer Cinema, and Girls’ Boarding Schools. Her cinephilic interests include hagsploitation cinema, the monstrous feminine, lesbian vampires, and the aberrant body in cinema. She got her BA in Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College (PA, USA) in 2012. Outside of her film curation work, she also plays the drums in the bands Mellowdeath, Aptera, and Sarattma. 

Participation: Midnight Metabolism

Syeyoung Park

Syeyoung Park was born in 1996 and is a filmmaker based in Seoul, South Korea. THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA which premiered at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in Korea is his first feature film.

Participation: Midnight Metabolism

Amat Vallmajor del Pozo

Amat Vallmajor del Pozo (Verges, Girona, 1996) graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University and has a Master’s Degree in Creation from EQZE. He co-directed the short film LA PERVERSIÓN DEL SIGNO (CCCB, 2019) and photographed the short film CENDRES (MECAL, 2018). MISSION TO MARS is his first feature film.

Participation: Midnight Metabolism

Kristína Aschenbrennerova

Alumna of Film Theory and History at the Masaryk University in Brno Faculty of Arts, Kristína Aschenbrennerova has been working as a festival programmer with a focus on the Far East and South-East Asia since 2010, first for Art Film Fest Kosice, and later also for Slovak Queer Film Festival and BRNO16 International Short Film Festival. In 2022, she joined the programming team of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Moreover, from 2020-2022 she has been the program manager of Pop Up Film Residency, a film-making residency & mentorship program, and until September 2022, has worked as a festival relations officer at the Slovak Film Institute. She writes for Kino Ikon and Asian Movie Pulse.

Participation: Gentle Giants

Daniel Cremer

Daniel Cremer appears as performance artist, director, writer and somatic explorer. The experiential spaces he creates are focused on intimate encounters between bodies, words, ideas and gestures. Main tools are cheeky humor, altered states of consciousness and a criticial reflection of the status quo. His work often revolves around topics like ecosensuality, sexual liberation and the imagination of masculinites beyond patriarchal brainwashing.

Participation: Gentle Giants

Savina Petkova

Savina Petkova is a Bulgarian freelance film writer, editor, and programmer based in London. Her publications include MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies, The Playlist, and Film Comment and her programming work includes a feature selection at Cambridge Film Festival and documentary competition at Sofia International Film Festival. She is currently completing her PhD on animal metaphors and metamorphoses at King’s College London, where she also teaches film theory, curation, and video essay practice.

Participation: Gentle Giants

Ela Bittencourt

Ela Bittencourt is a writer and critic currently based in New York and São Paulo. She writes about art, literature, and the moving image for a wide range of publications such as Artforum, ArtReview, Film Comment, Frieze, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Village Voice, and Sight & Sound. She has consulted for the festivals Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days) and IDFA (The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), written for Viennale, Berlinale Forum, and SP Arte, and mentored in the critics academies at Melbourne Film Festival and Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival in collaboration with Berlinale Talents.

Participation: Reaction Shot

Heleen Gerritsen

Heleen Gerritsen (The Netherlands, 1978) studied Slavic Languages, Eastern European Studies and international economics in Amsterdam and Saint-Petersburg. After a course in film production and an internship at the Lenfilm Studios in Saint Petersburg, Heleen started working both in film production and for various film festivals, among them  IFFR Rotterdam and IDFA. In 2003 Heleen moved to Germany where she contributed to the berlin international literature festival’s film program  Literatur auf Zelluloid. In 2009 she produced her first feature-length documentary, and consequently set up her own production company. From 2014 to 2016 she was at the helm of European Documentary Film Festival dokumentART in Neubrandenburg. Since 2017 Heleen has been the director of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, organized by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. She is a founding member of the Documentary Association of Europe and a member of the European Film Academy.

Participation: Reaction Shot

Go Hirasawa

Go Hirasawa is a researcher at Meiji-Gakuin University working on underground and experimental films and avant-garde art movements in 1960s and ’70s Japan. His publications include Godard (Tokyo, 2002), Fassbinder (Tokyo, 2005), Cultural Theories: 1968 (Tokyo, 2010), Koji Wakamatsu: Cinéaste de la Révolte (Paris, 2010), and Masao Adachi: Le bus de la révolution passera bientot près de chez toi (Paris, 2012). He has organized more than fifty film exhibitions throughout the world, including Underground Film Archives (Tokyo, 2001), Nagisa Oshima (Seoul Art Cinema, 2010), Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi (Cinematheque Française, 2010), Theatre Scorpio: Japanese Independent and Experimental Cinema of the 1960s (Close-Up: London, 2011), and Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960–1986 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012).

Participation: Reaction Shot

Vadim Kostrov

Vadim was born in Nizniy Tagil in Russia and moved to Moscow at the age of 18, where he studied dramaturgy in VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography). In 2021, he released six feature films on the international festival circuit: in international competition at Sheffield DocFest (with SUMMER and got Special Mention), at FIDMarseille (with ORPHEUS in int competition) and after that at Doclisboa (with WINTER in int. competition and the Narodnaya trilogy in Heart Beat section). In March 2022 Kostrov had his first retrospective at FICUNAM. When Russia attacked Ukraine again in 2022, Kostrov fled to Istanbul and now he is permanently exiled in France, where he continues to make films. His film FALL premiered at FIDMarseille and I SAW in the international competition of Doclisboa.

Participation: Reaction Shot

Salomé Lamas

Salomé Lamas (Lisbon) studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam and is a Ph. D candidate in contemporary art studies in Coimbra. Her work has been screened both in art venues and film festivals such as Berlinale, Locarno, BAFICI, Museo Arte Reina Sofia, FIAC, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, DocLisboa, Cinema du Réel, Visions du Réel, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Harvard Film Archive, Museum of Moving Images NY, Jewish Museum NY, Fid Marseille, Arsenal Institut fur film und videokunst, Viennale, Culturgest, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong FF, Museu Serralves, Tate Modern, CPH: DOX, among others. Lamas was granted several fellowships such as the Gardner Film Study Center Fellowship – Harvard University, Film Study Center-Harvard Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio Center and Brown Foundation – Dora Maar House. She is a professor at ESAD.CR School of Arts and Design and collaborates with Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola. She collaborates with the production company O Som e a Fúria and Primeira Idade and is represented by Kubikgallery and Galeria Miguel Nabinho. In 2020 starts with the support of a group of artists the creation and implementation of the AAVP Association of Visual Arts in Portugal.

Participation: Cinecology

Dominique Loreau

Dominique Loreau is a filmmaker, writer and photographer, born in Brussels. She taught cinema for thirty years at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. After graduating from INSAS, she directed three short fiction films, then several feature films: NAMES LIVE NOWHERE, DIVINE BODY, AS TIME GOES BY, IN THE EYES OF A BEAST, FREE AIR, SUCH A LONG WALK. Her films, which pose both philosophical and concrete questions combining reflection and emotion, have been selected for numerous festivals, including the Berlinale, the Berlinale Forum, the San Francisco Film Festival, the London International Film Festival, Visions du reel, the Montreal World Film Festival, the Sao Paulo International Festival, Filming at all costs in Brussels, the States General of Documentary in Lussas, etc. She writes novels and poetic texts: Bath water, Far from Bissau, A not scrambled, The shadow in the mirror, Do not say, Motus, A few steps aside.

Participation: Cinecology

Senthuran Varatharajah

Senthuran Varatharajah was born in 1984 and is a writer, philosopher and theologian. His debut novel “Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen” was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2016. His second novel “Red (Hunger)” was published in 2022 also by S. Fischer. Senthuran Varatharajah currently lives in Berlin.

Participation: Cinecology

Ariadine Zampaulo

Ariadine Zampaulo holds a bachelor’s degree in cinema and audiovisual from Universidade Federal Fluminense. She studied and worked in Maputo, where, in collaboration with Mozambican actors, she made her first film, “Maputo Nakuzandza” (2021), shown at festivals such as the 25th Mostra de Tiradentes and 33rd FIDMarseille. She mostly works in partnership with Mozambican artists and also collaborates with film and audiovisual producers in Brazil.

Participation: Cinecology

Rolf de Heer

Rolf de Heer writes, produces and directs feature films. Works include TEN CANOES, DANCE ME TO MY SONG, THE QUIET ROOM and CHARLIE’S COUNTRY (all seen at Cannes), THE TRACKER and BAD BOY BUBBY (both at Venice); ALEXANDRA’S PROJECT (Berlin) and currently THE SURVIVAL OF KINDNESS, a Berlinale 2023 Competitor.

Participation: Softly Surreal

Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His first novel, Remainder, won the 2008 Believer Book Award; his third, C, was a 2010 Booker Prize finalist, as was his fourth, Satin Island, in 2015. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. He contributes regularly to publications such as The New York Times, The London Review of Books, Harper’s and Artforum. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His latest novel, The Making of Incarnation, was published in 2021.  He lives in Berlin, where in 2019 he was a Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin programme. Born in Scotland, he is now a Swedish citizen.

Participation: Softly Surreal

Ulrike Ottinger

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The painter, photographer, film and theater director Ulrike Ottinger, born in Constance in 1942, has lived in Berlin since 1973 and made numerous well-known feature films and documentaries. In all of her 28 films she is responsible for screenplay, camera, direction and production. Her work has been honored at international festivals, retrospectives and exhibitions, including the Cinémathèque française and the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For her work, Ulrike Ottinger has received, among others, the German Federal Film Award, several times the German Film Critics’ Prize, the Hannah Höch Prize of the State of Berlin, the Berlinale Camera, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Ulrike Ottinger is a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the annual Academy Awards (Oscars).

Participation: Softly Surreal

Lucia Seles

lucia seles is a classical guitar student and graphomaniac at least 36 hours per week. she also studied endless hours of bandoneon and as a performer of that she recorded 02 discs in her room with a total of 94 tracks. Besides, she has 16 albums with tracks of herself. In 2022, as a theater director, she did a retrospective of 08 of her works from 2021 and 2022 -including the house of Alba Torrens 16 and the Chilean basketball– and in cinema she finished + of 26 videos for which she feels total pride + = she does not feel pride in being a director because of other directors she met. Now, since January 2, she dedicates 11 hours per day on average to the editing of her new videos terminal young and the urgency of life. She is finishing her video pray as she wanted, apart from starting the editing of his latest video private school alfonsina storni.
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Participation: Softly Surreal

Christopher Allen

Christopher Allen is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in New York City, which produces events, workshops, documentary projects, collaborative studios, labs for filmmakers, the UNDO Fellowship, and an online membership platform.The collaborative productions he has initiated, including  Living Los Sures, Documenting Mythologies, Capitol of Punk and Yellow Arrow, have united creative efforts of hundreds of artists, documentarians and communities. He collaborates on live performances, such as Say Something Bunny!, with artist A.S.M. Kobayashi.

Participation: Artistic Differences

Cíntia Gil

Born in Portugal, Cíntia Gil studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon Theatre and Film School) and holds a degree in Philosophy from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto), where she has also taught seminars on aesthetics. From 2012 to 2019, Cíntia Gil served as co-director and then director of Doclisboa, Portugal’s most important and steadily expanding documentary film festival. From 2019 to 2021 she has directed Sheffield DocFest. Gil has curated a variety of contemporary and historical film series, retrospectives, and exhibitions. In addition, she has been a member of the executive Board of Apordoc – Associação pelo Documentário, the Portuguese documentary film association since 2015. She has also served on juries in international film festivals, such as Berlinale, Mar del Plata, Jerusalem Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Taiwan IDF, FIDMarseille, Seville European Film Festival, DokuFest, Cairo Film Festival, among many others.

Participation: Artistic Differences

Victor Guimarães

Film critic, programmer and professor based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is currently a columnist at Con Los Ojos Abiertos (Argentina). His work has appeared in publications such as Cinética, Senses of Cinema, Desistfilm, La Vida Útil, La Furia Umana and Cahiers du Cinéma. He has curated retrospectives such as Sabotadores da Indústria (2014), Argentina Rebelde (2015), Palavras de Desordem: Cinema Latino-americano 1968-1982 (2018), Brasil 68 (2018), and special programs for festivals such as Semana (Rio de Janeiro), Janela (Recife), 3 Continents (Nantes, France), Essay Film Festival (London) and Frontera Sur (Concepción, Chile), as well as spaces such as XCèntric (Barcelona) and Union Docs (NY). He is currently a programmer at FICValdivia (Chile) and the artistic director of FENDA (Brazil). He holds a PhD in Communications from UFMG, with a research stage at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris 3). Guimarães was part of the selection committee of the Berlin Critics’ Week in 2022 and 2023.

Participation: Artistic Differences

Jenny Miller

Jenny has worked as an organizer dedicated to community arts programming with a penchant for nonfiction for the past 12 years, working with a variety of cultural and community spaces—big and small— before finding home in the mighty DIY spirit at UnionDocs. She brings curiosity, care, and a strong political stake in bolstering local arts communities through deep relationship building, collaborative practice, open dialogue and diverse programming to her work as Co-Artistic Director at UNDO which spans across all threads of programming for the organization. She received a B.A. in English + Cinema Studies from Oberlin College with an interdisciplinary approach to her studies which centered on documentary arts, artists’ books, pop culture and DIY publishing / exhibition practices.

Participation: Artistic Differences

Dominik Graf

The TV and film director Dominik Graf was born in Munich in 1952. From 1974 to 1980, he studied film at the University of Film and Television in Munich. Throughout his directing and writing career, he has been awarded several times for his work. Among other awards, he has received the German Federal Film Award, the Bavarian Film and Television Award, the German Television Award and many Grimme Awards. His best-known works include the TV series DER FAHNDER, DIE KATZE, DIE SIEGER, HOTTE IM PARADIES, DIE GELIEBTEN SCHWESTERN, the ten-part series IM ANGESICHT DES VERBRECHENS, as well as several episodes of the TV series Polizeiruf 110 (ex.: DER SCHARLACHROTE ENGE) and Tatort (ex.: FRAU BU LACHT). Recently he adapted Erich Kästner’s novel FABIAN – GOING TO THE DOGS for the big screen and afterwards he directed two television productions: GESICHT DER ERINNERUNG and MEIN FALKE. This February 2023, he will present his latest feature documentary, MELTING INK. In 2010, a book, containing many of Graf’s thoughts and reflections on cinema was published.

Participation: MELTING INK