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Colombian-Belgian filmmaker who works between reality and imagination, with a strong political and aesthetic focus on his homeland. He has directed two fiction feature films: Iluminada, produced in Belgium by The Blue Raincoat, and Valley of Souls (Tantas almas, 2019) — San Francisco IFF, Glasgow FF, Camerimage, Brussels IFF, Festival des 3 Continents, Transilvania IFF, Marrakech IFF — which was also nominated for the Macondo Awards. Both films were shot with non-professional actors in locations that feed back into their narratives.
Before these two fiction works, he directed a documentary trilogy titled Campo Hablado, centered on oral tradition and political violence, composed of En lo escondido (2005) — winner at Cinéma du Réel —, The Embrace of the River (Los abrazos del río, 2010) — winner at the Nantes Festival des 3 Continents, selected for the Yamagata International Documentary FF and ZagrebDox —, and Wounded Night (Noche herida, 2015) — winner at Cinéma du Réel, the Cartagena de Indias Film Festival, and the Macondo Awards. All three were produced in Belgium by Voa Films.
His projects have been developed in programs such as the San Sebastian IFF Co-Production Forum and L’Atelier, Cinéfondation of Cannes. He is also a professor and mentor in various international film labs.

Elena Gaitanarou is a Master’s student in Film, Exhibition and Curation at the University of Edinburgh. Since her undergraduate studies, she has been actively involved in the film industry, working for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and as a film critic for the website flix.gr. Since 2021, she has been part of the Thessaloniki Film Festival team, initially joining the programming team of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TIDF). Since 2022, she has been one of the coordinators of AGORA, the industry branch of TIFF and TIDF, which promotes projects at all stages of development and production across Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean, supporting both emerging and established talent, fostering cross-border collaboration, and encouraging the circulation of European audiovisual works.

Dovilė Grigaliūnaitė is a film curator, festival programmer, and film acquisitions manager. She currently works as the Director of Programming at the Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, one of the largest film festivals in the Baltic region, and as the Head of Acquisitions at Kino Pavasaris Distribution, a company that releases around three independent films per year across the Baltic countries. Together with a colleague, Dovilė hosts Blissfully Yours, a radio program dedicated to cinema on the independent station Radio Vilnius.
Her previous experience includes positions at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the Inconvenient Films Festival, the Vilnius Short Film Festival, and the media education and research center Meno Avilys.

Johanna von Websky studied Spanish and English/American Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Seville. Between 2008 and 2011, she worked as an assistant and project coordinator at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, focusing on visual arts, film, and new media. She later served as assistant coordinator at Prix Jeunesse International, the world’s oldest children’s and youth television festival.
Since the fall of 2015, she has been part of the DOK.fest München team, where she began in administration and, in 2019, became assistant to the festival’s director. Johanna is also a member of the festival’s programming team and has served as a juror at events such as DocsBarcelona and the Verzio Film Festival. Since the fall of 2025, she has also been a member of the DOK.fest’s steering committee.

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