A graduate of the American University of Paris in Film Studies, Sara also studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal and ESEC, Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques in Paris. After graduation, she returned to Egypt where she worked as an assistant director and photographer.Her documentary Jo was screened at the Cinemed International Film Festival in Montpellier in 2014 as part of a tribute to Youssef Chahine. In 2017, she began a three-year course at the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, specializing in "fiction directing".She then wrote, directed and produced a medium-length film entitled Christmas: a hybrid personal film in which she plays the lead role.Her latest short film Isabel was selected and awarded in 2020 at the Cairo International Film Festival in the Cinema of Tomorrow section.In parallel to her film studies, she worked for two years as an archivist at the Cinémathèque in Paris. She is currently working on a feature documentary project entitled In Search of Woody and on the screenplay for her first feature film In Search of Woody, a film also inspired by her personal story.

Sara, a lonely little girl, grows up in Cairo with Woody, her Ethiopian nanny. Twenty years later, Sara leaves for Canada, in search of her "heart mother." Family archives and images of the present mingle, childish reverie and harsh reality confront each other. The journey to find Woody takes unexpected paths.What if Sara's quest hid another?

Already as a little girl Coraline wanted to discover the world. So for that, she chose to film it. What better window on elsewhere, on the lives of others? She sees it as an incredible opportunity to experience other cosmologies, to broaden her field of vision, to learn. After studying journalism and documentary filmmaking, she went on an "immersion" trip: 5 years in Cameroon followed by 3 more in Southeast Asia, where she covered news for French and foreign television. At the center of her approach: to apprehend other ways of being in the world. Back in France, she continues my work of putting into perspective, particularly on our relationship to nature and the living world, through her documentary film projects.

At the beginning of time, humans and animals spoke the same language, they understood each other. To reconnect with this common interiority and allow for the possibility of dialogue, the Artois Forest School, an elementary school located on the edge of a 7-hectare forest in Duisans, near Arras, immerses children in the "wilderness experience. It is the first "school in the wild" in the Hauts-de-France region and this year, an educational project combining wildlife tracking and philosophy is threatening to change the relationship to the world of these little eco-citizens of the world of tomorrow; and ours?

Linda Qibaa lives in Marseille. She studied photography at Icart-Photo. She worked for a while in studios in Paris. She then went back to study philosophy at Paris 8 and then comparative research in anthropology, sociology and history at the EHESS. It is there that she began to be interested in visual anthropology and creative documentary.

A supermarket in which security guards and thieves cross paths, stare at each other and challenge each other. A security headquarters that resembles a watchtower where Victor watches video surveillance screens all day long. He recounts his arrival in France and casts a sharp eye on the world. A factory town, which regains a human dimension and becomes a place of refuge that one can inhabit.

Chiara Tripaldi studied screenwriting in Milan and documentary filmmaking in New York. She began working as a screenwriter in 2017, then as a freelance production coordinator on the shooting of short films, music videos and the documentary "Inside the Vatican" for BBC2. In 2020, she is shooting her first documentary, "Fighting America" in New York City. She lives in Rome and recently worked as a story editor for Cattleya.

"Controra" is a travel-documentary about a city, Taranto, famous above all for the pollution of the Ilva River. Within its perimeter several resistant energies are born: they try to redraw the limits, creating social and cultural spaces. Max, Mirko, Cosimo and Giovanni guide me inside Taranto, the city where I was born and that I left, when I was a child, suddenly. "Controra" is my act of love for her.

Aurélia Makdessi is a 39-year-old French-Lebanese director. After studying Modern Letters and Information Sciences at the Sorbonne, and then some experience in TV journalism, she has worked in various positions in the audiovisual industry, mainly in Morocco. First in the production of feature films and shorts, clips, commercials and then in the direction of documentaries, notably for Al Jazeera. Also a teacher of Modern Literature and Cinema for about ten years, she teaches mainly at the French high school in Casablanca until her return to France in 2019.

Tripoli, Lebanon, 2021. The great city of the north, alive and anarchic, in which Joe, Bilal, Omar, Ahmad and the others try to build themselves as best they can. To feel alive, free, they practice free running on the concrete curves of the International Fair, an impressive but forgotten work of the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Abandoned and in ruins, the site is a reflection of the country. Two worlds rub shoulders, two temporalities mingle and try to get by.

Olivier Chantôme, based in Germany, is a photographer. A sociologist by training and a specialist in Middle Eastern conflicts, he is particularly interested in Lebanon through the memorial aspect. He is currently finalizing a first book half photographic essay half sociological on the city of Tripoli (Lebanon) which will be released by B2 Editions during 2022.

Alaa Ashkar is a Palestinian filmmaker who lives between Galilee and Gironde. He is fluent in French, Arabic and Hebrew. After studying law in Netanya, Israel, he finished a Master's degree in Political Science in France in 2006 which led him to work in the field of international solidarity around the Mediterranean (Egypt, Italy, Israel/Palestine). In 2017 he became interested in independent cinema to express his views on human relations and directed "You reap what you sow", a film that deals with the issue of the memory of Palestinians in Israel. The film won the award for best documentary film at the Lucania festival in Italy.

In the West Bank, 20 kilometers south of Bethlehem, a family of Bedouin shepherds has lived in the desert for generations. One day, two representatives of the Israeli army come to tell them bad news: This land is a military zone, the farm is likely to be demolished.

Joel Cartaxo Anjos grew up in Portugal, before moving to Paris to study cinema. He graduated from the Master Professionnel Cinéma by the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2019, he directed the short film "So far from Kabul", broadcast on France 3 and presented at several festivals. "Elle est partie ailleurs" is his most recent documentary project, winner of the Greek Rush 2021.

Marina Gulbahari, a famous actress in Afghanistan, is a political refugee in France. Traumatized by a childhood built on the pillars of violence, she decides to cross the borders to find her mother in Iran. This journey, marked by landscapes, encounters and solitude, will confront her with a physical and inner journey. The search for reparation in the face of trauma, in a journey where among the shadows seeks the light: to overcome and surpass her own past.

Laura Farrugia is a director and actor. After studying directing at the University of Glasgow, she worked with the Citizens Theatre and then with the Paprika Theatre Company in Toronto. Since her return to Paris and the making of several short films, she has devoted herself to writing her first feature-length documentary film Bezness and is preparing a short fiction film Marvin which she is co-directing.

Bezness: n. Tunisian man expert in sentimental manipulation and ready to do anything for financial compensation or to obtain European papers.My father, his friends, my cousins... everyone seems to have been a Bezness around me. Fascinated by sentimental scams after discovering how my parents met, I go to Tunisia to discover the Bezness, as well as the women who let themselves be seduced by their game.