The director, who was born in Israel in 1988, claims to have made films with Napoleon Bonaparte, God, a haemorrhoid and a donkey before adopting video game technology to obtain a new narrative freedom. Her work takes on the great biblical tales and confronts them with her own questions. She is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and Le Fresnoy art school in Tourcoing, France. She currently lives in Marseille. Her film It Wasn’t the Right Mountain, Mohammad screened in Berlinale Shorts in 2021. What was your starting point for “We Will Not Be the Last of Our Kind ..read more

The Iranian-Dutch visual artist and filmmaker studied visual arts at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and now lives and works in the Netherlands. Her work explores the concept of time by reflecting on the absence of images, memory psychology, oral history, narrative techniques and physical-psychological space. Her films have screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales, Art Brussels and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia. She is currently developing her first feature-length film. What was your starting point for City of Poets? Every ..read more

The filmmaker and artist is based in Shanghai and has a master’s degree in film directing from Columbia College Chicago. She investigates subtle and inexplicable relationships between individuals in contemporary life with a particular focus on insecure, nomadic and transient states. Her artistic work is born of a desire to explore the realm of the agnostic and to construct an ethereal landscape that transcends physical space. She is often searching for things that approach eternity in the moment of the here and now. What was your starting point for „Shi ri fang gu“? When I graduated from film ..read more

Eva Pedroza: Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982, she is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the interface of film and fine art. She studied at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires and the Berlin University of the Arts. Her work has featured in various exhibitions including, in Berlin, at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, the Literaturhaus Berlin and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. From 2013 to 2017, she received a scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Fanny Sorgo: The writer and director was born in Korneuburg, Austria in 1993 and grew up in Vienna. Between ..read more

Born in 1998, he lives and works in Paris. With a background as an audiovisual technician, he went on to study at the Cergy art school and then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He works with new technologies, in particular 3D, and focuses on how they offer him new ways of creating images. The themes of his work are drawn from his personal history including childhood memories, things he has seen and experienced, and difficulties in communicating. What was your starting point for “Les animaux vont mieux”? The idea for this film came to me during a residency at La Peyrigne, in the south of France, whe ..read more

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1973, she studied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in the 1990s and received several scholarships including from the Cité des Arts in Paris, the graduate school of the Berlin University of the Arts and working scholarships from the Berlin Senate and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media. Her short and feature-length films have been exhibited in both cinema and gallery contexts. Her first film to be presented in Berlinale Shorts was World on Board in 2019. 1.What was your starting point for “That’s All From Me”? When my daughter ..read more

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1987, he studied film directing and acting. He teaches film history at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and has worked at the Museo del Cine film archive since 2012. His short films have screened at Locarno, the New York Film Festival, the AFI, the Viennale and many other festivals. 1.What was the starting point for “UN MOVIMIENTO EXTRAÑO”? I began shooting the short in late 2019 and had to stop because of the pandemic. At that moment, I wanted to continue writing comedies about Argentina’s obsession with saving in dollars. Money in movies has always ..read more

Born in Schongau, Germany in 1976, the filmmaker lives and works in Berlin and Finland. Between 1996 and 2005, he studied film and painting in Vienna, Helsinki and Potsdam. His video collages and films are poised on the border between visual arts and auteur cinema and have been presented in museums, galleries and at film festivals. He has won numerous awards, including the 2013 German Short Film Award. His films have featured a number of times in Berlinale Shorts, most recently Glittering Barbieblood in 2021. 1.What was your starting point for „Pacific Vein“? I was on a 3-month residency in Lo ..read more

Born in China in 1989, the filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing. Her work, which focuses on the continual mutations within the industrial production chain of images, has been presented at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals and has won numerous awards. One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean screened in Berlinale Shorts in 2021. 1. What was your starting point for “The Moon also Rises”? In 2018, a group of Chi ..read more

The Swedish artist and filmmaker lives and works in Amsterdam. By capturing human movements and voices and applying these to non-human characters within fictional, 3D-animated realities, Ullman questions the grounds on which value and sentience are prescribed, why one life is more valuable than another, and what it means to be human. What was your starting point for “Preoperational Model”? Child psychology, roleplay, and logic. The film’s title is taken from the term “preoperational stage,” a stage of cognitive development where children think at a symbolic level but are not yet using logic ..read more