Aline Motta (1974, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro) lives and works in São Paulo.In 1995, she received a BA in Communication Studies in Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and in 2004 she completed her studies in Film Production at The New School University in New York. Her practice employs video, photography, installation, text, collage and performance, reflecting on personal and collective memory, identity and ancestry. Her video installations are often accompanied by live performances. Her works have been exhibited and awarded at renowned art venues and film festivals in Brazil and internationally, and are included in important collections.More information: https://www.alinemotta.com

Ana Vaz is a Brazilian artist and filmmaker whose work explores the relationships between the self and the other, myth and history, through a cosmology of signs, references, and perspectives. Drawing on assemblages of filmed and found material, her films combine ethnography and speculation to explore the frictions and fictions embedded in both natural and built environments. She graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, and was also a member of SPEAP (Sciences Po School of Political Arts), a project conceived and led by Bruno Latour.

Antoni Muntadas was born in 1942 in Barcelona, Spain, and has lived in New York since 1971. He studied architecture at the University of Barcelona and received an M.A. from Escuela Tecnica Superior Ingenieros Industriales (Technical School for Industrial Engineers) in Barcelona, and also studied at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York. He has taught and directed seminars at diverse institutions throughout Europe and the United States, including Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; University of California, San Diego; the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and Grenoble; San Francisco Art Institute; Cooper Union, New York, University of Sâo Paulo, and University of Buenos Aires. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Visual Arts Program in the School of Architecture at M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA, and the Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura del Veneto in Venice, Italy.

Muntadas has produced a body of work across diverse media, including photography, video, publications, the Internet, multimedia installations and urban interventions. Through his projects, Muntadas addresses social, political and communications issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigations of channels of information and the ways they may be used to censor information or promulgate ideas.

Bernardo Cantigas’ work revolves around a search for identity and the pursuit of comfort spaces. Born in Brazil in 2002, he moved permanently to Portugal at the age of seven. This transition became the starting point for his artistic research, drawing on memories and everyday experiences as references for the creation of his work.

Bouchra Khalili graduated in Film & Media Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle and Visual Arts at the Ecole Nationale d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Encompassing film, video, installation, photography, printmaking, and publishing, Khalili’s practice explores imperial and colonial continuums as epitomized by contemporary instances of illegal migration and the politics of memory of anti-colonial struggles and international solidarity. Deeply informed by the legacy of post-independence avant-gardes and the vernacular traditions of her native Morocco, Khalili’s approach develops strategies of storytelling at the intersection of history and micro-narratives. Combining documentary and conceptual practices, she investigates questions of self-representation, autonomous agency, and forms of resistance of communities rendered invisible by the nation-state model.

Bruno Gularte Barreto is a queer Brazilian researcher, filmmaker, and visual artist whose work operates at the intersection of cinema, photography, and video art. His practice investigates the porous boundaries between documentary and autofiction, using intimate archives, personal narratives, and lived experience as starting points to engage with broader social, historical, and political questions. Through long-term projects, his works examine how private memory can become a site for collective reflection.

Camila Freitas (1983, Lauro de Freitas, Bahia) lives and works in Paris.
In 2007, the filmmaker graduated in Film from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in Niterói. In 2008, she specialised in cinematography at École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière in Paris, subsequently working as a director of photography on short and feature films. In 2023, she completed an MA in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at La Fémis (Paris) with her thesis Livusias – Film Cartographies at the Margins of the Invisible, which investigates spectral presences, oral traditions and ecological transformations within a river island community in north-eastern Brazil. Since 2003, Camila Freitas has made four short films and one feature film, which have been screened and awarded at festivals in Brazil and internationally. She is currently developing her second feature film, Livusias, with the support of SP-Cine (São Paulo).
More information: https://camilafreitas.art

Dania Reymond-Boughenou was born in Algiers in 1982. Her family left the country in 1994, during the Black Decade, to settle in Marseille. There, she began her studies at the School of Fine Arts and later continued at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Her medium-length film Le jardin d’essai, shot in Algiers in 2016, has been presented at several festivals, including Angers, Brive, Cinemed, and Belfort, where it received multiple awards. Les tempêtes, her first feature fiction film, is currently in pre-production and will be shot in Algiers in 2022. Her work questions the potential fictional dimension of documentary.

Daniele Grosso is an Italian filmmaker based in Lisbon. He makes documentaries and experimental short films. He holds a Masters Degree in Arts and Literature, with a thesis in the History of Cinema Animation, and a Masters Course in Video Post-Production.

Diogo da Cruz lives and works between Berlin and Lisbon. His practice spans sculpture, installation and film, using speculative fiction to examine the entanglements between ecology, colonial histories and extractive systems. He studied Sculpture in Lisbon and Munich. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Serralves Museum, Kunstverein München and the B&M Theocharakis Foundation, and supported through residencies including Onassis AiR Athens, Pivô São Paulo and SES12NAUS Ibiza.

Elyla is a Nicaraguan multidisciplinary artist whose practice mixes performance, video, fashion and cultural research. Their work explores queer identities, collective memory and colonial legacies in Central America, often through the reinterpretation of popular traditions and cultural imaginaries.

Inês Mendes Leal (b.1997) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is centered on the action that air has on things, thus exploring how to recreate this dynamic presence, which occurs outdoors and recreates it in the interior/exhibition space. This exploration is not limited to this movement alone, but extends to the incessant search for a possible image of that which, by
it´s very nature, consists of a non-image. Her entire practice is touched by an attraction to the invisible.

Born between the mangroves and the sea, between Fortaleza and Itarema (1996, Brazil), Izabelle Louise is a Tremembé Indigenous woman. A PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, her research connects art, spirituality and ancestral knowledge. Working across film, photography, performance, installation and writing, her practice explores enchanted imagery. Her work has been presented internationally across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Filipa César was born in Portugal in 1975; she lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto and Lisbon, at the Academy of Arts in Munich, and obtained a Master’s degree in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts (2007). Her work questions the relationship between moving images and their public reception. It engages with the fictional aspects of documentary and the political dimension of images, situating itself between chronicle, documentary, and experimental film.

Isadora Neves Marques is a Portuguese artist and director, whose work traverses film, literature and the visual arts. Her practice researches topics such as biotechnology, gender, reproduction and ecology. Her films have been shown internationally such as the Berlinale, Tate Modern and the Pompidou Centre. She represented Portugal at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Janaina Wagner (1989, São Paulo) lives and works in São Paulo after several years in France. She completed a BA in Journalism and Fine Arts in São Paulo (PUC-SP/FAAP) in 2012 and a PhD at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France, in cooperation with the University of Lille in 2025. Known for her experimental approach, she integrates film, video, photography, drawing, installation, objects, scenography and painting to explore the boundaries between visual storytelling and spatial experience, and to discuss the limits and forms of control that human beings establish over their surroundings. Her works have been exhibited and awarded at renowned art venues and film festivals in Brazil and internationally, and are included in important collections.More information: https://janainawagner.com

Kateryna Kondratieva is a Ukrainian visual artist who currently lives and works in the Azores. Kateryna’s art explores the connection between nature, in particular plants, with humans and their everyday life,  and with emotions and memory; the experience of emigration and adaptation in the new country by the drawing, painting, illustration and video art.

Manauara Clandestina is a black transvestite visual artist, performer and film student from Manaus, Amazon. Raised within an evangelical missionary context, her work explores transvestite experience, affection and fashion, using upcycling techniques to reflect on dissident and resistance bodies. The artist mixes spirituality, street life and politics. Her work was presented at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM), the 36th São Paulo Biennale and the 60th Venice Biennale.

Maria Rojas Arias is a filmmaker, visual artist and producer. She was selected for Berlinale Talents (2020), and was a MacDowell Fellow (2024). Her films have been screened at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic), the International Film Festival of Valdivia (Chile) and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark).
In 2026, her latest film, Filme Pin, co-directed with Andrés Jurado, premiered at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).
Andrés Jurado is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. A MacDowell Fellow (2025), he was awarded the Joaquim Jordà Residency at the Reina Sofía Museum. His films have premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), FIDMarseille and DocLisboa.

Náhir Capelo (b. 1994) lives and works in Porto, Portugal. Her practice traverses installation, video, photography and sound, exploring the relationships between time, nature and cultural critique. She participated in On Abstraction (2023, curated by Eduarda Neves), the Maia Contemporary Art Biennial (2023, curated by José Maia), Sins and Capitals (2024–25, curated by Eduarda Neves) and Slippery Ground (2026, curated by Carolina Fangueiro and Letícia Costelha). In 2023, she was an artist-in-residence at Galeria Dínamo.

Nuno Cera is a photographer and video artist.
Nuno Cera’s work operates at the intersection of art and documentary, and addresses three fundamental forms of change: natural, spatial and temporal. His long-term research projects involve different agents and collaborators, including scientists, actors, writers and critics. His work has been exhibited and published internationally at various cultural institutions.

Born in Lisbon in 1983, Nuno Lacerda graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2008. Working across video, illustration, painting and photography, his practice explores the intersections between image, narrative and perception through a multidisciplinary approach. His work has been presented at numerous festivals, exhibitions and artistic platforms, including IndieLisboa – International Film Festival (2015) and Jeune Création Européenne (2013). He was a finalist at FUSO – Lisbon International Video Art Festival in 2011 and 2014, and was shortlisted for the Sonae Media Art Award in 2017.

Salomé Lamas is a Portuguese filmmaker, visual artist and educator. She studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary Art Studies in Coimbra. Her work has been shown at Berlinale, Locarno, MoMA, Tate Modern, Reina Sofia, ICA London, Berlinische Galerie, Serralves, CPH: DOX and La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, among others. She has received fellowships from Harvard Film Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio, MacDowell, Sundance, Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri, Camargo Foundation and Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. She teaches at FBAUL, is distributed internationally, and is represented in several public and private collections.

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S4RA works with video installation & immersive digital environments, and explores consensual power relations, desire & confinement, crossing the political body with liquid & post-capitalist landscapes. Waves are conceived as an affective system and an interface for information - an economy between pleasure & surveillance. They move in cycles of liberation, where the virtual is simultaneously territory & emotional mirror.

Sheila Ramirez dances and sings. She is a Cuban-Angolan artist and researcher whose artistic practice spans performance, the moving image, sound and installation. She has collaborated with cultural institutions in Portugal, including MAC/CCB, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Espaço Alkantara, as well as the NESR Art Foundation in Luanda, Angola. She is currently deepening her training in classical, modern and Cuban dance techniques.

Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She holds a BA in Modern and Contemporary History/Politics and International Affairs from ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, and a Master’s Degree in African History from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Susanne S. D. Themlitz (Lisbon, 1968) is an artist of Portuguese and German nationality who lives and works in Lisbon, Sintra and Cologne.  Between 1987 and 1995, she studied at Ar.Co, the Royal College of Art and the Düsseldorf Academy. She has been exhibiting regularly since 1998. Her work is held in various institutional and private collections.

Tony Labat (1951, Havana, Cuba). 
Labat emigrated to the United States in 1966 and currently lives in San Francisco. He received both a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Labat has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco; Open Channels, Long Beach Museum of Art; Artspace, San Francisco; and The Fleishhacker Foundation. Labat is currently a faculty member in the Department of Performance and Video at the San Francisco Art Institute. 

With ironic wit and incisive social critique, Tony Labat’s provocative, nonlinear narrative collages confront cultural identity, loss and displacement. Adopting an irreverent, often subversive stance, Labat represents the experience of difference and marginalization from the mediated position of the “outsider,” and deconstructs the codes by which the mass media reinforces cultural mythologies. In his idiosyncratic pastiches of performance, appropriated imagery and unexpected visual metaphors, Labat uses disguise, theatricality, storytelling and role-playing as narrative devices. In all of his video works, Labat uses low-tech video and performance as narrative strategies. At times poignant, at times satirical and assaultive, Labat’s fragmented narratives are unflinching articulations of the politics of cultural alienation.

Zheng Bo lives and works on the island of Lantau, Hong Kong. His work researches the relationship between ecology, politics and sexuality, from more-than-human perspectives. Based on the histories of marginalized communities and of plants often considered “weeds”, he develops projects that include spontaneous gardens, living slogans, eco-queer films and wan wu workshops, exploring types of ecological knowledge, and imagining ways of co-existence, beyond the logic of the Anthropocene.