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.
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