Born in 1989 in France, Clément Schneider studied filmmaking at La Fémis (National French Film School) where he graduated in 2013. Since he finished La Fémis, he co-founded a production company, in order to produce independant films – fiction and documentaries. In 2018, his first feature film "A violent desire for joy" is selected in ACID Cannes and many international festivals. In 2021, his feature film "The Cure" (codirected with Simon Rembado) is selected in FIDMarseille. He also wrote a thesis within the frame of a research-creation PhD in PSL University, whose subject is: relations between Cinema and Utopia. His last film "The End of the Iron Age" was released in 2025. He currently teaches filmmaking at ENS de Lyon. He helps defending independant cinema through his involvement in l'ACID, that he co-presided between 2020 and 2022.

Publisher, journalist, producer and filmmaker.

Founder and editor of DMovies (Dirty Movies), a leading indie publication founded in 2016 and based in the UK, with a strong focus on the European festival circuit, particularly on innovative and subversive cinema practices.

Director of various documentaries, in special those with a political and activist profile. Producer and writer of a recent transgressive fiction, which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale to great acclaim.

Program advisor at Cinemateca de Bogotá and IDFA. Programmer at Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International and Alternativa Film Festival. He holds a MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam, a MA in Anthropology from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and has led and participated in curating and preservation projects at Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), Eye Filmmuseum and LI-MA Institute for Media Art (Netherlands), the Spanish Film Showcase (Colombia), among others. Formerly program coordinator at the Bogota International Film Festival (BIFF). He has been a jury at festivals like FICCI and MIDBO, awards like the Golden Globes and Premios Gabo, and various open calls in Colombia.

After her studies at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and at the Conservatoire National Superieure in Paris, she acted in award-winning productions such as Maren Ade's "Alle Anderen", Franz Müller's "Kein Science Fiction", Kilian Riedhof's "Homevideo", Antonia Uhl's "Auster" as well as Nicolas Wackerbarth's "Casting".

Aside from her motion picture work, she was active in the free Berlin theater scene and as a chanson singer. Since 2021 she has been connecting her 35 years of stage experience with personality development. In her company, she leads coachings and seminars, in which she uses techniques of acting direction for private and professional presence.

After studying English, German Literature, and Theatre at FU Berlin, Neumann worked as a freelance film journalist. In 1994, he co-founded the Oldenburg International Film Festival, celebrated by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Screen International as "The European Sundance." In 2001, he produced "99euro-films," premiering at Berlinale 2002. His collaboration with filmmaker RP Kahl yielded "Bedways" (2010), rated by Der Spiegel among the top 10 films internationally. In 2017, he received Best Script and Best Film nominations at Munich and Tallinn Black Nights for "A Thought of Ecstasy." Recent credits include "When Susan Sontag sat in the Audience" (2021), "One-Way Ticket to the Other Side" (2024), and co-producer on Jan Cvitkovic's "Hotel Alcohol," due 2026.

Leonie Chima Emeka is an art historian, curator and author with a focus on postcolonial theory and histories.

In 2025 she curated exhibitions and performances at Parfümerie, Frankfurt and at Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren. She is currently working for the Art Collection at the Crespo Foundation where she assisted Mario Kramer for the curation of the show "Die Zeit hat Keine Zentrum" (2024-2026). She has undertaken provenance research on the Chokwe-Collection of Hermann Baumann at the Anthropological Museum Berlin. Her texts and essays have appeared in magazines, catalogues and magazines such as African Arts and Positionen. Texte zur zeitgenössischen Musik.

Sita Scherer is a cultural scholar and filmmaker with a focus on documentary film, essay film, and contemporary moving image, and works in curatorial selection processes in the context of film. She studied cultural studies in Hildesheim, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) and Leipzig, as well as visual communication in the film and moving image class of Prof. Jan Peters at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, where she graduated with honours. She has been working as a freelance filmmaker since 2018. Her works have been shown internationally and have received multiple awards, including the 2015 Open Frame Award at the goEast Festival for the video installation Essen vom Boden der Geschichte. Since 2022, she has been a member of the selection committee for feature-length documentaries at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, and since 2024 she has held a coordinating role. She is currently developing the documentary film Ruf das Schweigen, bis es antwortet.

Saul Judd is an independent curator based in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2010 he has been responsible for the video art section of the LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International. He conceived exhibitions with artists such as Keren Cytter and Mike Bouchet in the context of the festival until he created the LICHTER Art Award in 2011.

He started to curate the LICHTER Short Films International program in 2015. Among his projects is dont-miss.net, a multidisciplinary exhibition series in Frankfurt, 2000-2001; BLANK SLATE a publication about art, architecture and design and in 2016, SCHAUT! - a series of exhibitions of contemporary art film and video art at the MAL SEH’N movie theater in Frankfurt. In 2017 he presented the artist John Skoog and 2024 Florencia Levy as a guest curator for the Double Feature at Schirn Kunsthalle. In 2024, took part in the jury for the international RhineMain short film at the 24th goEast Film Festival.