Youssef is a young Moroccan filmmaker and researcher, a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts. Youssef is interested in youth cultures in the Arab world, the North African diaspora around the world, Arabic vernacular literature and the writings of Jorge Luis Borges. He translated the story "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote" for the academic journal Translation Review and co-authored a critical bibliography on Borges for Oxford University Press. The son of diplomats, Youssef grew up in Chile, Spain and Morocco before studying in the United States. A recipient of several research grants, he is about to begin a PhD in comparative literature, while pursuing his passion for film. He is currently developing a documentary on the skateboard scene in Morocco, produced by Nabil Ayouch and Amine Benjelloun with the 2M Morocco channel.

A group of skateboarders, including Hanota from Tangier and Rachid from Temara, travel around Morocco to film a skateboarding video to send to international specialized media. Accompanied by Youssef, the writer/director and skateboarder himself, and Youness, filmer and friend of the characters, this road-movie confronts the evolution of skateboarding in Morocco with its future perspectives, while tracing a portrait of Moroccan youth and its identity difficulties, between unemployment and disillusionment.

A merry band of disability activists is about to go on trial. They occupied SNCF tracks and airport runways in Toulouse in 2018 to denounce the non-respect of accessibility laws. The trial has never been filmed, it is reconstructed with a grating humor by those who have hoped and still hope to see their right to dignity recognized. Will justice hear their struggle?

Assia Tamerdjent is a young director born in Relizane, Algeria. Following studies in architecture in Algiers and then in social sciences at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, where she conducted a thesis project on the importation of raï music in France from a postcolonial point of view, under the direction of Gérôme Guibert, a sociologist specializing in popular music, she pursued further studies in cultural management and joined the team of Regard du Cygne, a contemporary dance theater. After a first experience as an editor for Dunes Magazine, Assia, who is passionate about cinema, films the atmosphere of the African Cup of Nations matches in public spaces in Algiers. This is how she decided to seize the filmic tool to document the social realities of her country.Hana, Algeria and me is her first film.

Hana, my older sister, lives alone in Algiers. Our paths separated in 2016, when I made the choice to immigrate to Paris. Between hospital shifts and techno parties in the suburbs of her city, Hana takes a path that is socially forbidden to her, that of the night. I decide to take my camera and go home to document the daily struggles of my sister, a young contemporary woman in post-Hirak Algeria. This film is also the story of a complicated reconciliation between two sisters that Algeria gave birth to, and that Algeria separated.

Documentary film editor for 25 yearsDirector of the film "la fête est finie" in 2015 and co-director of "la bataille de la Plaine" in 2020. I am the main animator of the collective "PRIMITIVI", a very active street TV in Marseille. The association produces (with derisory means) our long films, and diffuses on its platform 250 short films of political and social news realized since 25 years. I have also worked since my beginnings in the street theater field, on shows, installations, scenographies built on an audio-visual basis, whose restitution has always been a source of formal experimentation of captation and narration.I am an editor for F3 as a casual of the show on the JT, magazines, docus.

I discovered at age 48 after several brutal seizures that I had epilepsy. It is due to a dysfunction of my hippocampus, in charge inside our brains of selecting, shaping and encoding our memories. Here is a beautiful invitation to take stock of a life spent keeping traces to participate in the construction of a collective memory, and to question myself on the meaning and the stakes of this commitment.

Gabriel graduated from the BTS audiovisual René Cassin in Biarritz in 2011, and began his career as a video technician with the Canal plus group.Wishing to diversify, he participated in projects of all kinds as an assistant, then as a cinematographer, or as an assistant director on the feature film "Alex, Clément and all the others" by Cheng-Chui Kuo, selected in several festivals.With friends from the same training, he founded his production company, Kestu in 2016. Gabriel directed and edited several advertising projects, music videos and short films ( Drift, Les Yeux qui brillent, selected at the Cannes Film Festival). At the same time, he is training in directing actors at the CIFAP in Paris.In 2020 he directed his first documentary "Pôle espoir", a 52-minute film about the young hopefuls of the surf and bodyboard pole, broadcast on France 3.

Naçiye is a 75-year-old Belgian woman living in Antalya, Turkey. She has Parkinson's disease. For the past 5 years, she has been going to boxing clubs to confront and relieve a body that no longer responds to her. In this country in full questioning of her identity, she decided to fight for the recognition of sport as an alternative care with the objective to create the first boxing club for Parkinson's patients. But will the effectiveness of Rock Steady Boxing be recognized in Turkey, where the drug lobby and the weight of tradition are a brake on knowledge of "one of the great epidemics of our century"

Clara Sanz was born in Albacete ( Spain) , January 7, 1980She studied Humanities that led her to cinema and studies of communication and visual anthropology, including the Master 2 of creative documentary in Lussas. She is co-founder and editor of the Spanish magazine "Lumière", which gives a critical space to committed cinema and new cinematographic forms. She has collaborated with different festivals and associations such as the Mostra Ficção Viva Curitiba (Brazil), the European Film Festival of Seville, the African Film Festival of Tarifa, the cinema Videodrome 2 in Marseille and the association Ardèche Images in Lussas, where she carries out film workshops with the inhabitants. She also collaborates with other directors as a cameraman.Andrómedas, her first feature film, has been selected for many festivals, including the 57th International Film Festival of Gijón, the 26th International Festival of Independent Cinema of Barcelona.

Every year, in the week before All Saints' Day, the cemetery of a small village in La Mancha (Casas Ibanez, Spain) is the scene of a most interesting spectacle. All week long, the women of the village are busy with brooms, cloths and mops to prepare the graves for the great visits of All Saints' Day. They are of all ages, all styles: old, young, melancholic and dashing, with them, the cemetery is filled with colorful aprons, words, stories, memories and encounters. At the back of the cemetery, a woman is watering yellow daisies that are planted on an empty apartment. Next to it, a small plaque reads: "In memory of the 23 men shot in this place on the 25th of 1939 to defend democracy and freedom".

Myriam el Hajj was born in 1983 in Beirut. In the continuity of Truce, her first feature documentary, Myriam is now developing her second documentary Suspended(s) with Abbout Productions and Gogogo Films. She is also working on her first feature film, Commedia, produced by Abbout productions and Andolfi production. In addition to her cinematographic activities, Myriam is since 2015, artistic director at the Fondation Liban Cinéma, an association for the support of Lebanese cinema. She has been teaching cinema at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts since 2011.

The guns, the ballot box or the street. Georges, Joumana, Perla. Three destinies that cross, three generations and the same desire to change a sick country: Lebanon. Whilethe crises follow one another inexorably, they are confronted with a dilemma: to save the world or to save their skin?

Tessa directs and writes after studying literature and theater between Paris and Los Angeles. In parallel, she has always worked, either on film projects or as an assistant for production companies in France ( ZED Films, Vega Prod) or in Italy (Avventurosa). For them, she notably directed "La Voie de la Raison" with Isabelle Adjani, a fiction-documentary on the theme of incest. In 2017, she was a consultant for the MFI Film to script workshop and directed a second short documentary in the United States on a horse therapy center "The Ranch" and then a short fiction film as part of the Pigneto Film Festival whose rights were acquired by Rai Cinema in 2021

Ibrahim YAGANOV, an influential horse breeder and clan leader in the northern Russian Caucasus, has been forced into exile in Poland because of his political ideas. Separated from his family and his horses, he oscillates between an inordinate warlike ambition and the fantasy of his return.