After completing her film studies at the Film School of Prague (FAMU) and the Munich Film School (HFF), she moved to Galicia where she founded the Esnatu Zinema production company, with which she has produced renowned work as the director of films made with experimental material such as Proba de Axilidade, Nimbos, Lilit or Rapa das Bestas. Her themes tend to include an ethnographic perspective that reflects on the relationship of man with animals, violence and atavism. She is directing the feature-length Arima (Award to the Cinematographic Direction in the New Waves Seville European Film Festival) in addition to collaborating as a scriptwriter and art director in many films.

"This film does not intend to be a historical document. I rather resort to the past to find an echo with the present that can help us find keys to confront the present. A very physical film that will explore themes such as maternity and borders in a context of prohibition and clandestinity".

Chilean filmmaker. He studied film and television at the University of Chile. He has worked as director of photography and montage editor for different short films, among which is Non Castus, which received a special mention at the Locarno Festival. In 2018 he wrote and directed his first short film, The Summer of the Electric Lion, which won the first prize of the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Festival, the NEST Panavision award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, and was selected at a variety of festivals such as Sundance or Palm Springs. He is now working on his first feature-length film, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.

"The film seeks to portray the relationship between Lidia and Alexo, who are siblings but behave like a mother and daughter. Through everyday details, endless rumours and an adolescent perspective, we are immersed in an exploratory journey in which Lidia confronts the ignorance of a village that tries to bury the reality of HIV-Aids and homosexual relationships under a hilarious myth".

Gabriel Azorín. Diploma in cinema by ECAM. He is part of the first promotion of the EQZE. He directed the short films Los galgos and Mañana vendrá la bala and the medium-length film Los mutantes. His works have been shown in festivals such as Entrevues de Belfort, Festival de San Sebastián, Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla, Ficunam, Zinebi, Márgenes or Porto/Post/Doc. Azorín forms part of "lacasinegra" collective, with which he has developed various projects that relate cine- ma with contemporary forms of audiovisual production and distribution. "lacasinegra" has collaborated with cultural centres such as Tabakalera, IVAM and CCCB.

"With Last night I conquered the city of Thebes I seek to create a state of suspension in which we feel that all times coexist in the same place. In this way we draw a line that connects the Portuguese boys at the beginning with the Roman soldiers at the end. Both groups share age and concerns. And, although the film takes place in just a few hours of a winter Saturday, we will have traveled 2000 years back in time."

Straddling the world of cinema, theatre, acting and directing, her debut as a director was Júlia ist (Biznaga Plata Best Director, Best Film, Movistar+ Best Film at Malaga IFF). She directed two episodes of Perfect Life by Leticia Dolera (Best Performance, Best Series at Cannes Series). As an actress, she starred in the short film Suc de Síndria (EFA-nominated: Best Short), Con el viento and Agata’s Friends. As a performing artist she has co-founded the creative lab Elsmalnascuts and the VVAA collective. Elena is currently writing Veneno, a series by Los Javis for Atresmedia, and about to premiere with the play This is Real Love (Teatre Lliure).

"I want to talk about the consequences of the normalisation of female sexual repression. So, I decided to enter the world of taboos that is infant female sexuality, the origin of this unconscious repression. Starting from a fear of rejection in her present, I want to guide a thirty-year-old woman towards the purest form of pain: disgust and shame, both emotions related to repression and abuse, for her to reconnect with her desire. I want to analyse and break down the relationship between sex and danger and question the use of repression in Christian education".

Argentine-British artist filmmaker, Jessica Sarah Rinland has exhibited work internationally including Toronto Film Festival, New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Somerset House. She has won awards including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival for her first Feature Film, Primer Premio at Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento, Arts + Science Award at Ann Arbor Film Fetisval, ICA’s Best Experimental Film at LSFF, and M.I.T’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts. In 2017/8 she was a Film Studies Center Fellow at Harvard University and is currently an Associate Artist at Somerset House Studios.

"In 1936 psychologist Jean Piaget coined the term “Collective Monologue”: a period of egocentrism in a child’s life where they see the point of view of the listener as irrelevant. They believe that nature is created for them, and that they can control it".