Anna Wowra is a Polish born director who lives and works in Prague, Czechia. She is a sophomore student of the Directing department at FAMU and has previously studied Slavic studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She is also a graduate of the Wajda School in Warsaw.Her previous films include #instalove (2015), Every Dog Has Its Day (2021) and Beyond the Frontline (2022).At the moment she is working on a short documentary with Munk Studio, as well as currently developing her feature debut which is entitled In Good Faith.

Amalie Maria Nielsen grew up on the Danish island of Fyn alone with her single motherand is now based in Copenhagen. In 2022 she graduated from the Danish filmschool 18Frames and is now working as a director.In her work she is driven by her curiosity and need to question human behaviour in a modern setting and is particularly interested in our ever-changing understanding of sexuality, boundaries and intimacy. Characters struggling with their own and society’s gender expectations is a common theme in her work. Her latest film The Shift was nominated for both a Crystal Bear and a Teddy award at the 2023 edition of the Berlinale.

In her work German-Argentinean Sophia Mocorrea questions and deconstructs the structures in which young people are socialized within and between cultures. Her award winning short film MATADORAS was screened at numerous festivals. Her graduation film, from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, EL SECUESTRO DE LA NOVIA (eng. The Kidnapping of the Bride, 30 min.), won the Best International Short Film Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and received an honourable mention at the 73rd Berlinale in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. She is currently developing her first feature film MARRIAGE BY ABDUCTION, which won the Les Arcs Talent Village Award, was invited to the Toronto Film Festival 2022 and is being part of the Torino Script Lab 2023.

Giulia Regini was born in Rome and graduated in cinema at RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts) in 2018 where she took part in the making of several academic short films. She graduated in 2021.In 2019 she entered the directing class at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome and made several short films including 2020s Lia for which she wins two special mentions at the Corto Dorico and Contemporanea Film Festivals and the Best Short in the film school competition at the Olhares do mediterraneo Women's Film Festival.

Rinaldas Tomasevicius is an up-and-coming film director and screenwriter. He obtained a BA in film directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2022 and continues his studies in the MA program. Before taking up film directing, he himself lived on the streets and this is the reason that he makes films that - in a very real way - convey the emotions and aspirations of a society that is unacceptable to the public.

Joris Tobé is a graduate of the Utrecht FIlmschool in The Netherlands. While he has no illusions that his films can change the world, he believes that a film has the ability to take the viewer out of his daily grind and offer a new perspective on the crazy ball we are all condemned to. He hopes to be a very small part of a new generation of filmmakers, making entertaining and refreshing films with current and important themes. Frantic Attempts is his debut short film and has already won a Dutch film critics award for Best Graduation film.

Inês Pedrosa e Melo has an MA in Visual Anthropology from NOVA FCSH (2022) and is a graduate from Stanford University’s Documentary Film & Video Production MFA program (2019). She is a 2022-2023 SFFILM FilmHouse filmmaker resident.She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor from Lisbon, Portugal, and currently based in San Francisco, USA. Coming from a background of film and media studies, as well as anthropology, she strives for a nonfiction media practice that is heavily rooted in engaging with archival materials and thoughtful collaboration with the subjects she strives to represent. Her latest film Home, Revised won the Fernando Lopes Award for Best Portuguese First Film at DocLisboa 2022

Monika Mahútová comes from Slovakia and she has recently graduated after studying directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. Whilst there she co-wrote and directed several short movies – both fiction and documentary – which were screened at several festivals across the world.

Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1997 Avilés is a writer and composer. He studied a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Media in Escac university, specializing in Direction. Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays is his final degree project and his first short film- a fiction in which he delves into themes of teenage spirituality, magic and suicide. It had its global premiere in ZINEBI, the short film festival of Bilbao and its International Premiere in Berlinale Shorts.

Kim Allamand was born in Lucerne, Switzerland and lives and works in Zurich. He holds an MA in film directing from the Zurich University of Arts.His short films have been screened and won awards at numerous festivals worldwide including San Sebastian, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Zinebi Bilbao, Molodist Kyiv, São Paulo, Winterthur and premiered online on platforms like Vimeo Staff Picks and Filmatique Talents. He is currently writing his first feature project.