Directors
Carmen Baltzar
carmen / Carmen Baltzar (Helsinki/Lisbon) is an author, director, and artist. Her work traverses cultural and metaphysical realities, using the body as an anchor between worlds. All the Love in My Body is her first scripted film.
Lotta Becker
After studying architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts, Lotta Becker attended the European Film College in Denmark. In the following years, she worked on various film projects as a production assistant, assistant director, and editor. In 2024, she began her directing studies at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Simona Constantin
Simona Constantin (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker based in Bucharest, with a keen interest in music as immaterial heritage. She has dedicated the last 10 years to exploring the lives of traditional music players and the changes they're going through. Her approach to filmmaking is informed by her years of working as a designer and producer of cultural and educational experiences for young people.
Eva Giannelou
Eva Giannelou is an Athens-based photographer and filmmaker working primarily in street and documentary photography. With a degree in the Art of Photography and currently studying Cinema at the Hellenic Open University, her work focuses on visual storytelling, social issues, and the human narratives found in everyday life.
Stavros Andreas Kostakis
Stavros Andreas Kostakis is an Athens-based engineer, photographer, and filmmaker with a focus on street and documentary work. Drawn to everyday life, social themes, and less-visible communities, he has contributed to audiovisual projects in direction, set coordination, and editing.
Rastislav Kupšo
Rastislav Kupšo, a directing student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, creates films about guilt, despair, and the search for love. His characters are outsiders longing for happiness. He treats heavy themes with playfulness and magic, bringing poetry and fantasy into his stories.
Marco Pinnavaia
& Cecilia Rizzuto
Marco Pinnavaia is an Italian writer and filmmaker, born in 1993. In 2018 he published his debut novel, Puerto de Luna, a spaghetti western. Through his documentaries — Dreamland, Volare Volare!, Davide, where are you? — he explores extraordinary stories from the margins of society. His debut fiction short film, The World Is Ours, has received awards at numerous national and international film festivals. He recently served as executive producer of the short film Armed Lovers. He is artistic director of the monthly screenings Filmucci, held in Rome at Greenwich Multisala. His second novel, Paris is a Party, will be published in 2026.
Cecilia Rizzuto was born in Milan in 1998. She has studied art history in Milan, where she works as a lighting and set designer for events, adverts and films. In 2023 she directed the short experimental film Titovskij. Together with her colleague Marco Pinnavaia she directed Volare Volare!, which won Best Film at the RROMA Film Festival in Brașov, Romania. In September 2024, she took part in the CinemAbruzzo Campus residency directing the short doc Davide, where are you?. She made her directorial debut with the fictional short film Armed Lovers, a noir set in a Milan of yesteryear. She is the artistic director of the Felice Film Festival.
Charles Newland
Charles Newland is an award winning film director of Romani-Gypsy heritage from Nottingham, UK. He is the founder of film collective Notown Films and an original member of the IRFC. He has made films for and had his work featured by Tate, BBC, VICE, BFI, and The Guardian - his films have also been screened at a variety of international film festivals. Charles began his career working in avant-garde and experimental film. Recently, he has been making documentaries on a freelance basis.
Dáša Raimanová
Dáša Raimanová is a London-Berlin-based documentary director from Slovakia, whose work explores socio-political topics. Dáša has directed short documentaries for Al Jazeera, Arte, and Deutsche Welle (DW), including Across the Road - Worlds Apart (2019), which was broadcast in nine European countries and reached millions of global viewers on DW's YouTube platforms.
Patrick Schaefers
Patrick Schaefers is an antifascist activist and social worker based in Bremen.
Allegra Schneider
Allegra Schneider works in Bremen and internationally — collaborating with shifting, mobile teams on projects addressing anti-fascism, migration, and against the exclusion of the Roma. She is also a writer of films and reportage. With her debut work As voluntarily as possible (Möglichst freiwillig) (2018), a movie about forced migration, education and solidarity, she toured schools, cultural centers, festivals and art-house cinemas.
Maria Ulrich
Maria Ulrich is a human rights activist and sings in Dresden. During the fascist attacks on Roma housing complexes in Czech Republic in 2013, she joined together with comrades in supporting anti-fascist protests. She is a co-founder of a network that reports on and raises awareness about the history, marginalization, and resistance of Roma people.
Gogo Vanev
Gogo Vanev was born in Bulgaria. After studying cinema in Belgium (HELB), he worked as a camera assistant and documentary DOP before completing a Master's degree in Screenwriting (IAD) in 2022 and working as a junior scriptwriter on TV series. Gadjé is his first professional short film.
Béla Váradi
Béla Váradi is a Roma and queer visual artist whose work confronts erasure and political marginalisation across Europe. Based in London, he combines documentary photography and participatory practice to tell stories from communities shaped by war, poverty, and systemic discrimination. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Balkan Insight, and WOZ, and has been exhibited internationally.