Author: exilefilmfestival

He is an afghan refugee, who lives since 2014 in Switzerland. He had to leave Afghanistan after that he with his team made a political documentary film about the Talibans and the peace process in Afghanistan. He has worked more than 7 years as cameraman for different film and video projects in Afghanistan. He works now as cameraman for COUPDOEIL productions in Bern and wants to start his Master as cameraman in Zurich University of the Arts in 2018. “Lost Paradise” is his first film as director.

Belgian-Colombian director who graduated in cinematography at INSAS in 2003. He works in the collective VOA films in Brussels.

Ägare av Danish Doc Production, filmregissör, fotograf och producent.

( Raoul Ruiz; 25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films between 1963 – 2011.

Born  and raised in Chile (1941 in Puerto Montt), and living in Paris since he exiled himself after the 1973 assassination of Salvador Allende, Ruiz produced a body of work so inventive, demanding and rewarding that he deserves to nestle in the company of those giants. True out the years His movies was nominated 26 times in different prestigious movie festivals over the world, and he also won 24 times. Amongst his winnings: Berlin International Film Festival 1997 (silver bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Généalogies d’un crime),  Cannes Film Festival 1983 (Les trois couronnes du matelot) and Moscow International Film Festival 2006 (International Competition: Klimt) and many more over the years.

 

 

• La telenovela errante(original director – as Raúl Ruiz)2017
• Epistolar(Short) 2012
• The Night Across the Street(as Raúl Ruiz) 2012
• Ballet aquatique(Documentary) 2011
• Mistérios de Lisboa (as Raúl Ruiz) 2010

She was born in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and studied fine arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. She currently lives and works in London, UK. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilise video, photography, installation, the book form and the internet. Central to her work is the tug and pull between fiction and reality.

He was born in Teheran, Iran, but later fled the country due to the Iran-Irak war (1985) and ended up in Germany before seeking asylum in Sweden the same year. He then began a journey in 1994 that brought him to L.A. where he attended classes in Van Mar Academy Acting classes 1996. His passion for story telling got him an entry to the New York Film Academy in the year 2000 and was graduated as a film director. As a writer, director, lead role and producer of “Sanctuary”, this is his heaviest attendance, involvement and most contemporary film yet.

Alex Afshar is an independent movie director, living in Gothenburg, Sweden. He started his movie career in 2005. Since then he has directed ten short films and two music videos, and has been involved in many other movie projects as lighting supervisor, cameraman and editor. Alex has made movies in different genres and styles. He has made poetic drama, comedy, thriller, mystery and criminal short films. Nonetheless, his main focus is in poetic and feelgood movies.