Sara Jordenö is a NYC and Gothenburg-based Swedish visual artist and documentary filmmaker whose stories often concern communities facing different types of marginalization and how they position themselves in the world. Her cinematic projects and commissions have been shown internationally at venues such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Viennale, 5th Berlin Biennial, The Modern Museum, Stockholm, GIBCA, Gothenburg, the Kitchen and MoMA PS1. KIKI is her feature documentary debut.

Born in the Tyrol, Austria in 1969, he studied acting in Vienna and then joined the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus in the same city. He took smaller parts in films by Christian Berger, Urs Egger, Michael Haneke, Jessica Hausner, Dagmar Knopfel and others. Since 1994 he has been writing prose and plays for the radio and theatre as well as opera librettos for Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Arnulf Herrmann, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Lang and Hector Parra. His debut feature film MARZ (MARCH) won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2008.

The filmmaker, photographer, writer and artist is based in Toronto. He has written and directed 14 feature films. “Hustler White” screened in Panorama in 1996 and became his first international box-office success. “Gerontophilia” won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal. As a photographer, he has had several international exhibitions. His feature film “L.A. Zombie” premiered at Locarno in 2010 and was banned in Australia. His work screened at the Berlinale several times, most recently in 2017 with “The Misandrists”.

Toby Ashraf is a journalist, curator and translator based in Berlin. He writes for various publications and moderates talks at Berlinale Panorama, Forum and Generation. In 2014 he founded the Berlin Art Film Festival and in 2015 won the Siegfried Kracauer Prize for Best Film Review. In 2016/17 he organised CIMA Berlin, a series of monthly screenings of queer films with live Arabic translation for refugees. He appears in films occasionally and focuses on feminism and queer cinema and culture in his work.

Akosua Adoma Owusu is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker and educator. She was named by IndieWire as one of the six pre-eminent “Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema”. Her short film “Kwaku Ananse” premiered at Berlinale Shorts. It won the Africa Movie Academy Award and was selected for the Venice Biennale. “Reluctantly Queer” was also selected for Berlinale Shorts, and nominated for the Teddy Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Film at Howard University.

Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over three decades, they have produced more than 100 films, including some of the most celebrated and important American independent features: "Kids", "I Shot Andy Warhol", "Happiness", "Boys Don’t Cry", "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", "Far from Heaven", "One Hour Photo", "Still Alice", "Carol", "Beatriz at Dinner", and "Dark Waters". In television, Vachon executive-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe-awarded miniseries "Mildred Pierce" for HBO as well as the Emmy Award-winning limited series "Halston" for Netflix. Recent releases include Todd Haynes' "May December" (Netflix), starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and Celine Song's "Past Lives" (A24), which marks her first Oscar nomination in the Best Picture category.