2014

After two years in Warsaw working for the French Film Festival and presenting a radio program, Guillaume André enrolled in La fémis to study screenwriting. He then worked for a theater company and collaborated on various feature film screenplays. He directed Bleu #11, about the documenta XI – Kassel and Le Moindre Souffle (selected in different festival in France and abroad, including the Angers First Film Festival in 2006 and awarded with the Innovation Award at Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne) and Une autre voix, selected in FIDMarseille in 2010. He is currently working on his first feature film, Saaremaa, in collaboration with Anne-Louise Trividic and Johanne Bernard. He is also co-writing, with Jean-Claude Carrière, a feature film, L’Enfant hébreu and Tous les rêves du monde by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa. He is currently finishing his feature docu-fiction Luminy, selected in the FIDlab in 2012.

Siamak Etemadi was born in Teheran, Iran. In 1995, he moved to Athens, Greece, where he lives to this day. He studied cinema in the UK and in Greece. He directed his first short film Vignette in 2001 as a student project and his second short film Paramithas in 2003 for the Greek national TV. Both films took part in Greek and international film festivals. His last short film Cavo d’Oro had its world premiere in Locarno International Film Festival - Competition in 2012 and was nominated for the Best Short Film in the Greek Film Academy Awards.

Graduated from the EICAR and La fémis (screenwriting department), Julien Guetta made several short films (Le Vacant in 2007 and Les Ventres vides in 2010), selected and awarded in festivals (Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Spring…). He is currently developing several feature film projects as screenwriter, particularly with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa and Dominique Baumard. He will film in autumn 2014 his next short film Lana del Roy and he is currently working on the writing and the development of his first feature film Une histoire de famille, produced by Les Films du Worso.

Born in Haapsalu, Estonia, Janno Jurgens made different experiments in short film genre since 2006. He graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School with a bachelor’s degree in 2012 as a film director. In 2013, he presented in Angers his short film Distants.

Born in Germany, Mirjam Kubescha graduated from the Cinema department of the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and the Munich Academy for Television & Film (HFF). She directed several short and medium-length films selected in different festivals, including the Cinefondation, the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and the Premiers Plans Festival in 2002 (Ecce Homo). Her feature docu-fiction Balordi won the Best documentary award at the Torino Film Festival and the Audience Award in Viennale, Vienne international Film Festival. In all her productions, Mirjam Kubescha was the scriptwriter, producer, director and editor.

Juho Kuosmanen studied directing at the Department of film of the Aalto University in Helsinki. He is also an actor for the cinema and television. His films have been awarded in several festivals. His three first short films have been selected and awarded in the Premiers Plans Festival: Kaupunkilaisia (2009), Roadmarkers (2009) and The Painting Sellers (2011).

Born in Armenia, Nora Martirosyan graduated in 1996 from the Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts and in 2001 from the academy of Amsterdam (Gerriet Rietvel Academie). She then attended two artist-in-residence programmes: at the Fresnoy and at the Rijkakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her films Courant d’air (2003), 1937 (2007) and Les Complices (2009) have been presented in several festivals (Cinematexas, FID Marseille, Belfort…). In 2012, she created the film production company heolfilms, together with the directors Pierre-Yves Cruaud and Laurent Aït Benalla. She is laureate of the Villa Medicis in 2013.

Born in the suburbs of Paris, Morgan Simon studied biology and followed lectures at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, before joining La fémis in the scriptwriting department. During three years, he works as a critic for a webzine specialized in Alternative Rock Music. His films deal with the question of marginality and intimacy, like Essaie de mourir jeune or American Football, selected and awarded in 2013 at the Premiers Plans Festival. His script, Compte tes blessures, was read in 2015 during the Angers First Film Festival, by Kévin Azaïs and Nathan Willcocks.