Anna Bartholdy Anna Bartholdy is a sociocultural manager, curator, and filmmaker. She works for dokumentART and is co-organiser of Libken, an artist residency space in the Uckermark region. There, she develops programmes and events at the intersection of art, film and education, with a focus on inclusion and cultural work in rural areas.
 

Magda Jaroszewicz – Artistic Co-Director of the dokumentART Film Festival, filmmaker, internationally active festival curator, and member of the vocal ensemble OTUCHA Collective, which creates vocal performances and public interventions, facilitates workshops, and holds regular singing circles.
 

Linn Löffler works as a curator and moderator for film festivals and events. Her documentary Fearkingdom (2022, co-directed by Kornél Szilágyi) has been screened internationally.
She has been a member of the film collective LaborBerlin e.V. since 2008. In addition, she is a musician, translator, and archive producer for documentary film
 

Maksym Melnyk, born in Uzhhorod in 1982, is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. He made his debut in 2022 with his first documentary film Three Women at DOK Leipzig, where it won the Audience Award, the Golden Dove, among other prizes.
 

Lisa Siomicheva is a curator, festival director, and multidisciplinary artist. Since 2010, she has developed and led international cultural projects, collaborating with artists, institutions, and communities to create participatory formats and platforms for dialogue. She is an alumna of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Global Cultural Relations Programme, and a member of the Mestixz Collective.
 

Camilla Jämting is a filmmaker and performance artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She holds a bachelor‘s degree in Moving Images from the Film Art School in Kabelvåg (UiT) and has a background in both visual arts and nursing. Her debut film, Project Dad, an autobiographical short documentary about her relationship with her eccentric father—a self-proclaimed pickup artist—has
screened at numerous festivals around the world. The film was nominated for the Amanda Award for Best Short Film and received several accolades, including the main prize at dokumentART 2025.
 

Fanny Dauny is a programmer at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She has been part of the Lab Competition selection committee since 2019. Alongside her programming activities, she works on the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival‘s communications strategy and digital platforms, contributing to the promotion and circulation of short films from around the
world.
 

Frieder Schlaich is a German producer, writer, and director. Together with Irene von Alberti, he has run Filmgalerie 451 since 1992, a DVD label, film distribution company, and film production company that provides a platform for films and directors who take risks in terms of both content and form. He has produced, among others, films by Werner Schroeter, Heinz Emigholz, Elfi Mikesch, Cynthia Beatt, Christoph Schlingensief, Omer Fast, and Angela Schanelec, most recently Der Hauptmann
and Seneca by Robert Schwentke, as well as Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien by Bettina Böhler and Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden by Sandra Prechtel.
 

Laurence Favre is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice brings together experimental cinema, installation, sound, and critical theory. Favre’s work has been presented internationally at festivals including Locarno Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlinale, Visions du Réel, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is an active member of the artist-run film lab LaborBerlin and contributes to collaborative projects dedicated to Expanded
Cinematic Arts.
 

Łukasz Jastrubczak, born in 1984 in Zielona Góra, is a visual and sound artist, curator, and associate professor at the Faculty of Media Arts, Photography, and Experimental Film at the Szczecin Art Academy. Together with Małgorzata Mazur, he runs the „CentrumCentrum“ art space, which operates at the intersection of artistic, social, and ecological practices. He lives in Szczecin.
 

Tete Hoffmann works in personal documentary filmmaking, studies Art and Media at the Berlin University of the Arts in the Narrative Film class, and explores political and collective filmmaking through curatorial work.
 

Philip Treschan is an emerging filmmaker living and working in Berlin. He graduated with a master’s degree in “Kunst und Medien” (Art and Media), studying under German filmmaker Thomas Arslan at the Berlin University of the Arts.
 

Clara Becking is a filmmaker based in Berlin.
Her work focuses on modalities of perception and affect in relation to urban space, language, and depiction. She holds an M.F.A. from the Berlin University of the Arts.

Julia Mendyk, a film student at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań, explores images in search of the ephemeral, often focusing on portraits of women. She experiments with a range of forms—from digital filmmaking to analogue animation.
 

Malwina Postaremczak is a Polish artist and experimental filmmaker whose practice spans animated experimental spoken film, poetry, and artist moving image, with drawing at the core of her work. She is currently completing her MA in Experimental Film at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań.
 

Blanka Kęstowicz is an artist and performer working at the intersection of film and theatre.
She is a member of the independent theatre company Porywacze Ciał and a recipient of the 2024 Polish Minister of Culture Scholarship. In 2024, she also received an award at the FAMA Festival for her film Skinny.
 

Clovis Caruana is a first-year student specialising in creative documentary filmmaking in the European Cinema-Audiovisual-English Section at Lycée Alain Colas in Nevers, France, where he studies in Catherine Lebaupin’s class. 

Garance Voisin is a first-year student specialising in creative documentary filmmaking in the European Cinema-Audiovisual-English Section at Lycée Alain Colas in Nevers, France, where she studies in Catherine Lebaupin’s class.