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 is a filmmaker and animator who isn’t afraid to stir the pot. His works often explore themes of identity, queerness, migration, and belonging. Born in Jerusalem and now based in Berlin, he’s a Berlinale Talents 2024 alumnus and a member of the European Film Academy.
Since graduating from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in 2013, Amir’s films have screened at festivals around the world and picked up a few awards along the way. The New Jews (2025)—his first full length documentary—premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2025, Bi The Way (2022) won prizes at CINHOMO, OutReel Cincinnati, and QueerX. Don’t Be a DICK! (2020) took Best Animation at SPLICE, and Between Two Walls (2019) won Best Animation at the Berlin Independent Film Festival. His recent projects: Invisible Countdown (2024) and Kotti Express (TBA), continue to grapple with questions of identity, community, and how we shape the stories we live in.
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.
Thunska Pansittivorakul
Thunska Pansittivorakul was born in Bangkok in 1973 He graduated with a degree in Art Education from Chulalongkorn University. He won the Grand Prize award at The 4th Taiwan International Documentary Festival in 2004 for his documentary feature ‘Happy Berry’. In 2019, his “Santikhiri Sonata” won the Grand Prize at DocLisboa, Portugal. In 2022, his “Danse Macabre” won a Merit Prize at Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival (TIDF). His work has been screened at international film festivals including IDFA, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Sheffield, Visions du Réel, BAFICI, Busan, Hong Kong, Taipei Golden Horse, DMZdocs.
J.Jackie Baier
Born 1955, in Kiel, Germany. Attended the Universities of Hamburg, Bochum and Essen.
Following graduation, work as unit and production manager, 1st AD with directors (a.o.)
Dominik GRAF, Michael LENTZ, Bernd SCHADEWALD, Adolf WINKELMANN.
Since 1997, Jackie Baier is officially a woman. Since sex change, she continues working
as a director of TV series and independent films.
2011 – Baiers documentary HOUSE OF SHAME (90mins) premiers at the Panorama
Section of 61st Berlinale. Awarded MEILLEUR DOCUMENTAIRE at Film Festival
CHÉRIES-CHÉRIS, Paris (France) 2011. In theaters 2012.
2013 feature-length documentary JULIA premieres at 70. Mostra Internazionale … (Venice
IFF/Italy). Several awards as Best Documentary.
Collaborations with directors (a.o.) Shu Lea Cheang and Bruce LaBruce.
Lives and works in Berlin.
for more pls go to www.jackielynn.de
Etsen Chen
Etsen Chen’s first short film, The Younger, won Best Student Narrative Film and Best Actor at the Golden Harvest Awards. He was later selected for the Iran Fajr Film Festival Talent Campus and the BIFF Asian Film Academy. His second co-directed short, Lipstick, premiered at the BIFF. His debut feature project, No Money No Honey, is selected for Karlovy Vary IFF’s industry section and the Da Nang International Film Festival Film Market, with his concept short, DAMP, premiering at NYAFF. He is also developing the Taiwan-Japan-Korea co-production, Staring at Your Back .
Pina Brutal
Pina Brutal (she/they) is a Hungarian performance artist and filmmaker. Her art takes inspiration
from several years of contemporary dance training and practices such as bondage and forms of
extreme body art. They started making movies in 2016, mainly in the genres of erotica, porn, and
horror. Her films contain elements of body art and aim to highlight queer feminist perspectives.
Always with a sense of humor but never shying away from darker subject matters, their art seeks
to make the audience laugh, get turned on, or cover their eyes.
She did not study art or filmmaking in any Institution or School, and therefore, she learned filming
and producing through her creative processes. Her films were screened around the globe on
festivals and collected several awards along the way.
Maruja Bustamante
She is an actress, performer, and director. She writes plays. She is a screenwriter and audiovisual producer. She has participated in more than 120 plays in the last 25 years, alternating roles.
Her most notable works include Adela is Hunting Ducks, Majority, Paraná Porá, Work for Wolves, Red Rabia, and Potencia Gutierrez. She co-wrote the opera Mentir, about Ada Falcón, with seven other playwrights, coordinated by Alejandro Tantanián. She has appeared in Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Garden and Pomerat’s The Reunification of the Two Koreas at the Teatro San Martin, directed by Helena Tritek; Maruja Enamorada, directed by Vivi Tellas; Doberman, by Azul Lombardia; Urdinarrain, by Hernan Moran; Madre, by Lobo Entrerriano, directed by Ana Katz; Tribus, directed by Claudio Tolcachir; and Todo Tenria Sentida Si No Exister La Muerte, by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, among others. As a filmmaker, she has a web series (Plan V la Serie), the short film Kuala Lumpur/Kanger Lussuak, and the feature film Tencha Reina.
On television, she has appeared in A Year to Remember, Compulsive Times, and 100 Days to Fall in Love. She acted in the documentary Rosa Patria by Santiago Loza and the feature film Permitidos by Ariel Winograd.
She studied film at the Universidad del Cine, in the film program at the Universidad Di Tella, and at El Laboratorio del Guión. She has trained with teachers such as Helena Ttritek, Mauricio Kartun, Ariel Barchilon, and Ricardo Bartis. She has received several nominations for her work and has won the María Guerrero Incentive Award and the Trinidad Guevara Award for Best Author. She was also a member of the jury for the “Art Against Discrimination” (INADI) awards, the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center’s “Operaciones Primas” (First Works) award, the Municipal Playwriting Award from the Municipality of San Salvador de Jujuy (2013), the Teatro y Rock competition organized by Argentores and Radio Rock n Pop, and the 19th CABA Competition and Festival of the INT (National Institute of Contemporary Art). She served as a jury member and tutor for performing arts projects at the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial. As an actress, she was nominated for the Teatros del Mundo awards for her work in “Maruja Enamorada,” “Doberman,” and “El Jardin de los Cerezos.” She was also nominated for an ACE award for Best Supporting Actress for “Tribes.”
In addition to touring her plays throughout the country and Spain, she coordinated writing workshops in Jujuy, Chaco, and Madrid. She also performed there with the collective “NO TE CONOZCO,” a sort of electropop protest band.
As a cultural manager, she has organized theater series (Ciclo Suiza, Punto de Partida) and multidisciplinary arts series (Primer Festival de la Escena Queer, Arenga, Ciclo Balvanera, Proyecto Familia, Dans) alongside other artists. Since 2014, she has worked as a performing arts advisor for the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center at the University of Buenos Aires.
During 2010, she performed with the Mucho Mas collective and the Actitud Peluche collective, of which she is a member (CCEBA, DIVERSA Film Festival, Sabato Cultural Center).
With her duo Te Amo, she has performed numerous shows, including at the Emergente Festival, the National Rock Radio Auditorium, and the Konex Cultural City.
In 2014, her first anthology of collected plays, “HijaBobayotrasobras,” was published by Blatt & Rios. In 2021, Potencia Gutierrez was published, her second anthology, published by the same publisher.
Gustavo Vinagre
Gustavo Vinagre (São Paulo, Brazil) is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and storyteller of
intimate and transgressive cinema. His work moves between fiction and documentary,
often blurring the boundaries of both, creating films that are tender, erotic, politically
sharp, and playfully subversive.
Vinagre’s cinema explores desire, memory, and the contradictions of contemporary Brazil,
mixing raw confessions with absurd humor and lyrical invention.
From his early shorts to acclaimed features such as Unlearning to Sleep, A Rosa Azul de
Novalis, and Três Tigres Tristes (winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlinale), Vinagre has
established himself as one of the most inventive voices in Latin American cinema. His
films have premiered in major festivals such as Berlinale, Rotterdam, and Cinéma du
Réel, and four of his works have been exhibited on MUBI.
Marked by both irony and tenderness, Vinagre’s work reimagines cinema as a space of
freedom — where sex, politics, humor, and poetry coexist and contaminate each other.
He is currently completing the horror comedy Privadas de suas vidas and the docu-fiction
A paixão segundo GHB.
Jan Eilhardt
Jan Eilhardt studied Film and Performance at the HFBK Hamburg (including classes with
Marina Abramović) and was an assistant to Heiner Müller at the Berliner Ensemble. His
films and experimental projects have screened in international film festivals, cinemas, and
museums. His feature debut Scherbengericht premiered in 2013 at the Slamdance Film
Festival. Fremdenverführerin (2022), a queer-activist Super 8 short film, was shown in
international festivals and won many awards. It is being followed in 2025 by his
autobiographically inspired feature Janine zieht aufs Land, supported by mediatalents
(nordmedia) which was premiered this year at the Berlinale Forum and is distributed by
Salzgeber.
Malga Kubiak
Malga Kubiak was born in 1950 in Warsaw, Poland. She attended over 17 schools,
studied arts in Warsaw, Zakopane, London. She attended the Ubbeboda Center in
Sweden and Christiana in Copenhagen, Gothenburg the ViGG institute in Gothenburg
and the Air in Brussels.
She has made more than 40 movies and engaged in performance, music, writing and
demands political freedom and erotic personal freedom.
