"Damián Vondrášek (b. 1991, Prague) is studying direction at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU). He was already making movies before entering school; his short work In the Rain (2014) was presented at the Prague Short Film Festival. Together (2015) took the best director award at Famufest. Imprisoned (2016) was selected to San Sebastian IFF (Eiecine) and Karlovy Vary IFF (Future Frames), also nominated for the Magnesia Award for Best Student Film (presented during the Czech Lion Awards). His upcoming film supported by Czech Film Fund is currently in post-production."

Hans-Peter Hagmann Studied media sciences/film and got his PhD with a doctoral thesis in Visual Anthropology. In the field of film he works as a lecturer in media theory and film analysis at several sections at the University Freiburg/Germany like the institute for media culture sciene, institute for ethnology and the institute for media science. Various experiences in the field of film as a filmmaker, as a film critic, as a program coordinator for cinemas like the Kommunales Kino Freiburg and for festivals (e.g. the ‘Freiburg Film Forum’, a biennal festival for documentary films on non-European subjects) as well as a pre-selector for film festivals like the GIEFF (German International Ethnographic Film Festival) and the GoEast Filmfestival in Wiesbaden/Germany. In addition, head of an intervision group for filmmakers in Freiburg.

MICHÈLE LEVIEUX, film critic/ journalist. Born in 1946 in Paris, she began in the 60s as a journalist for Le Figaro and Télérama. She then was a TV critic for press agencies, TV magazines and a film critic for theory reviews (Ecran, la Revue du Cinéma...). Currently, she is a film critic from the daily, l'Humanité. She is a specialist in long face-to-face interviews with cinema people. Photographer, programmer for various festivals and events of expérimental movies, silent cinema, filmmakers rétrospectives (in Russia, Brazil, Egypt...), she participates in numerous juries around the world. She published on Douglas Sirk, Sacha Vierny, translated Mohsen Makhmalbaf's book "En Afghanistan, les Bouddhas n'ont pas été détruits, ils se sont écroulés de honte" (Fayard/ Paris, Brazil, Greece) illustrated photographies with Samira Makhmalbaf. She gratuated from Journalism School (Paris, 1968). She received a Pegasus-Aleksandr-Khanjonkov Prize (Moskow, 1998) and Vera-Kholodnaya Award (Moskow, 2000). She is a FIPRESCI member, a UJC member, member of ACM's Commission (Aide aux Cinémas du Monde/ CNC-Institut français, Paris) and EFA member (European Film Academy, Berlin).