Born 1981, Denmark. Graduated from the Copenhagen film collective Super16 in 2010. Jonas Poher Rasmussen made his feature debut with the portrait film 'Noget om Halfdan' (2006). 'Searching for Bill' (2012), a mix of documentary and fiction, won the Nordic Dox Award at CPH:DOX and the international competition at DocAviv. He also directed the documentary 'What He Did' (2015), which won the film critics' Fipresci award at Thessaloniki Film Festival. The animated documentary 'Flee' (2021) received the Cannes Festival's Official Selection stamp at its special digital edition in 2020. The film opened at Sundance Film Festival to warm reviews, winning the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, and subsequently received several prominent awards, including for best feature film at Annecy. Other festival heavyweights include Telluride, Toronto, New York and Chicago, as well as awards at prominent US ceremonies such as the Gotham Awards and the Critics Choice Documentary Awards. Mores awards include the Nordic Council Film Prize and two awards at the European Film Awards for best documentary and best animation.

'Flee' was nominated in two categories for BAFTA 2022: Feature Documentary and Animated Feature, and in three categories for the Oscars 2022: International Feature Film, Feature Documentary and Animated Feature.

Cille Hannibal is born in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a degree from the prestigious National Film School of Denmark and graduated as a documentary director in 2013. Additionally, she holds a degree from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, where she studied from 2007 to 2009.

Since her graduation from the National Film School of Denmark, Cille has worked as a director and programme planner on several TV-documentaries produced by DR and TV2.

"The Night We Fell" was her debut film as a documentary director. The film was selected for CPH:DOX in 2018, and nominated for a NORDIC:DOX award. Furthermore, the film was nominated for Best Short at the prestigious festival “Vision du Reel” in Geneva in 2018. It was also selected as the opening film at Zagreb Dox in 2019. She directed the documentary film HE’S MY BROTHER (co-director Christine Hanberg). It won a special mention at the CPH:DOX Film Festival in 2021 and the audience award at the München Documentary Festival 2021. It was been screened across the world including in several European countries and in US (POV).

Ömer Sami is a filmmaker of British, Irish and Turkish descent. He tells intimate character-led stories, which explore existential themes of belonging, imagination, legacy, and loss of innocence.

His most recent film, Eternal Father (2023), will premiere at IDFA and be released by The New Yorker. His film, Into the Blue (2023), screened at Telluride Film Festival, Hot Docs and DOK Leipzig, among others. His debut short, Sam and the Plant Next Door (2019, The Guardian), was nominated for an IDA Documentary Award, Critics Choice Award, Danish Academy (Robert) Award, received a Vimeo Staff Pick and Ekko Shortlist Award, and premiered at the 2019 Camden International Film Festival.

Søren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author, artist, director and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy, Lind wrote books on mind, language and understanding before turning to art, film and fiction. He has published novels and shorts story collections. His children’s books have been translated into several languages.

Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums, galleries and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other recent venues and festivals include the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, Kunsten in Denmark, KINDL in Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK).

He lives and works in London.

Larissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and studied fine arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. In her recent works, she uses science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film, Sansour also produces installations, photos and sculptures.

In 2019, Sansour represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennial. She has shown her work at Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Barbican and Yinchuan MOCA. Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, KINDL in Berlin, Copenhagen Contemporary in Copenhagen, Bluecoat in Liverpool and Dar El- Nimer in Beirut. Her work has been part of the biennials in Istanbul, Liverpool, Incheon, Busan and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Sansour is an alumni of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Her films have been shown at the international film festivals in Berlin, Rotterdam, Guanajuato, Bucharest, London and Locarno. She has received several awards for her films. Sansour currently lives and works in London, UK.

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Simon holds a BA degree in Japanese, with modules in Film and Science, and Visual and Audited Anthropology, and graduated as a Documentary Film Director from The National Film School of Denmark in 2009. As a director his films include Ramona's Journey (2004), Dormitory Master (2009, Gold Panda Award at the Sichuan International TV & Film Festival), Above Ground, Beneath the Sky (2008, Best Short Film at Vision Du Reel and Best International Documentary at Vienna Film Academy International Film Festival 2009), Travelling with Mr. T (2012, co-directed with Andreas M. Dalsgaard), Chikara - The Sumo Wrestler's Son (2013) IDFA and The Fencing Champion (2014) IDFA. His film, The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017), premiered on IDFA 2017, and was awarded the award for The Best First Appearance. It has since won several awards worldwide, among these the McBaine Documentary Feature Award at San Francisco's SFFILM Festival, as well as being nominated for European Film Award (EFA) documentaries of 2018, the most prestigious awarding body in Europe. His most recent film A House Made of Splinters premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2022, and was awarded for Best Directing. It has since won several awards worldwide, among these the Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary at Göteborg Film Festival, a Golden Alexander Award and FIPRESCI Award for best documentary at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, a DOX:AWARD (Politiken) at CPH:DOX as well as been shortlisted for an European Film Award (EFA).