Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba breathe new life into the world of contemporary art: based in Berlin, they design exhibitions and founded the magazine Contemporary And, a demanding print and digital publication whose aim is to “connect cultures”.

N'Goné Fall, the General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, wished to place this ambitious project under the banner of pan-Africanism and collective intelligence.

Director Hassen Ferhani describes himself as a multi-faceted artist sensitive to the brutality and poetry of Algerian society, its history and its hopes. A passionate film maker who has won numerous international awards, Hassen Farhani wishes to put humanity back in the spotlight. His film 143, rue...

Spearheading the latest generation of actors, behind his apparent nonchalance Vincent Lacoste cultivates a genuine desire for a demanding cinema, beyond the limits of any one genre.

Nathan Ambrosioni, who is not yet 20 years old, directed his first feature film in 2019: Paper Flags (“Les Drapeaux de papier"). In doing so he fulfilled his teenage dream of becoming a filmmaker, a vocation which had called to him ever since he first discovered the film Esther by Jaume Collet-Serra...

Catherine Corsini’s proudly feminist cinema addresses the themes of homosexuality, patriarchy and gender equality.

Kleber Mendonça Filho won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for Bacurau, his third feature film co-directed with Juliano Dornelles, and has established himself as an iconic director of socially-engaged Brazilian cinema.

Universal questions within slices of life, ethnologist and filmmaker Claire Simon explores the poetry of daily life with a realist eye that wanders between documentaries and works of fiction.

His discovery of French cinema led this young Korean artist to become a director. Through his lens, Jero Yun questions the artificial separation that divides the two Koreas and goes in search of these enemy brothers.

The cinema of Tunisian film director Kaouther Ben Hania is characterised by its authenticity. Straddling the line between fiction and documentary, her creations take a scathing look at our societies, without ever losing their touch of irony.

With The Class (“Entre les murs”), Laurent Cantet joined the exclusive club of French filmmakers who have won a Palme d’Or at Cannes. A subtle filmmaker, he trains an x-ray on the links between the intimate and the communal.

Wanuri Kahiu is an accomplished Kenyan director and author. An activist artist, her films and books portray a positive image of Africa and are marked by a strong commitment to ecological causes.

Violent, disturbing, joyful: Claire Denis' work celebrates love in all its forms. Her taste for bold formal experiences makes her one of the most recognised French filmmakers abroad.

A talented representative of the young generation of Congolese filmmakers, since 2010 Dieudo Hamadi has been examining his country's dysfunctions through portraits filmed with a hand-held camera. His direct cinema has been very successful at international festivals.

As a critic and a director, Bertrand Tavernier espouses a vision of cinema which exists in service of the narrative and the characters. His films, haunted by the theme of lineage, echo his love of passing on knowledge.