Apichatpong Weerasethakul is recognised as one of the most original voices in contemporary cinema. His previous seven feature films, short films, installations and his recent live performance have won him widespread international recognition and numerous awards.

Championed by NPR, who praised her composition as one of the “Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+,” and The New York Times, who celebrated her work as one of the “Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018,” Aftab’s liminal sound floats between classical minimalism and new age, Sufi devotional poetry and electronic trance, jazz structures and states of pure being.

Daniel Wohl's music blends electronics with acoustic instrumentation to often "surprising and provocative effect" (NPR). He has produced albums, orchestral and chamber works, film, television and ballet scores, and has received critical praise as one of his generation’s "imaginative, skillful creators" (New York Times). His music has been programmed by the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and The London Contemporary Orchestra, among others.

Raised in England, Devonté Hynes started in the punk band Test Icicles before releasing two orchestral acoustic pop records as Lightspeed Champion. Since 2011, Hynes has released four solo albums under the name Blood Orange –Coastal Grooves, Cupid Deluxe, Freetown Sound, and Negro Swan, as well as 2019’s Angel’s Pulse mixtape; all of which have been critically acclaimed.

Josephine Decker is a filmmaker committed to collaboration, poetry, play, cinema and the new genres and personal transformations that emerge from their mixing. Her work focuses on women’s interiority and sexuality.

The New York Times proclaims “Rafiq Bhatia is writing his own musical language,” heralding him as “one of the most intriguing figures in music today.” A guitarist, composer, producer, and sound artist “who refuses to be pinned to one genre, culture or instrument,” Bhatia “treats his guitar, synthesizers, drum machines and electronic effects as architectural elements,” the Times writes.

Mati Diop lives and works between France and Senegal. Her debut feature film Atlantics won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival in 2019 (where Mati was also a jury member in 2021 along side Spike Lee) and was shortlisted for Best International Film at the Oscars 2020.

Manon Lutanie is a publisher and filmmaker based in Paris. Her short films have screened internationally at FIDMarseille, Indie Lisboa, e-flux, FIAC Hors les murs, ICA London, Documenta Madrid, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Mucem, and elsewhere.