Jürgen Brüning
A Berlin-based film director, producer and festival programer. Helming projects by queer luminaries like Dennis Cooper, Cheryl Dunye, Thunska Pansittivorakul, G.B. Jones, Shu Lea Cheang, Maria Beatty, Emilie Jouvet, Lior Shamriz, and Ela Troyano, Brüning produced Bruce La Bruce’s debut feature, No Skin Off My Ass and most of the filmmaker’s subsequent projects. He is also the director of Klappe.
Wojciech PUŚ
Wojciech PUŚ (1978, Poland) are: filmmaker and artist. They work with moving images and sound. Their films, installations and live acts have been screened, exhibited and shown at International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Horizons International Film Festival, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, ICA London, Museé du Louvre in Paris, Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, Art Museum and Exchange Gallery in Łódź, Urban Glass in New York, A:D: Curatorial in Berlin, Spike Art Magazine/Yvonne Lambert in Berlin. They also lecture at the Cinematography Department in Łódź Film School..
Amir Ovadia Steklov
Amir Ovadia Steklov has emerged as a bold and daring filmmaker-animator, blending sharp humor with visually striking narratives that explore migration, LGBTQ+ themes, Jewish identity, and racism within a sex-positive framework. Graduated from Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in 2013 (Jerusalem), he is now Based in Berlin, a 2024 Berlinale Talent alumnus and member of the European Film Academy. Through his post-production studio, The Glass Prince, Steklov crafts animations, VFX, and edits for clients while pursuing his passion for filmmaking. His style challenges boundaries and explores identity in deeply personal ways, solidifying his place as a distinctive voice in contemporary cinema.
Goyo Anchou
Goyo Anchou (Argentina, 1973) is a weird guy who has been able to build a career thanks to guerrilla film production, that is, the practice of cinema in the worst conditions. He was a historian of Argentine cinema, for a brief time in which he believed himself wiser than the rest, then a programmer for the Mar del Plata Film Festival, where he introduced to the audience several notable directors who were still unknown, and, finally, having fallen into disgrace before the Argentinian National Film Institute, and when it was predicted that he would never be able to film again, he became a prostitute in Buenos Aires’ red district, but kept on making films on his own terms. “Homophobia!” is his fifth feature film, it won Coral Otros Territorios award to the best avant-garde film at the New Latinamerican Cinema Film Festival in Havanna, 2024.
