is a Lebanese-British independent investigator or “Private Ear,” with a PhD from the University of London on the role of sound in legal investigations. In 2023, he founded Earshot, the world’s first not-for-profit organization dedicated to the study of audio for human rights and environmental advocacy. His work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, lectures, live performances, films, publications, and exhibitions at institutions such as: Munch Museum, Oslo; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Biennale Arte 2019, Venice; Sharjah Biennial 14; and the 12th Berlin Biennale. Abu Hamdan’s work has been widely recognized internationally with awards such as the Grand Prize at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2022), and the Audience Award at the Toronto Biennial (2020), among others. For the 2019 Turner Prize, Abu Hamdan formed a temporary collective with fellow nominated artists Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani in order to receive the award jointly.

MASSIMO D’ANOLFI AND MARTINA PARENTI are among the leading voices in contemporary non-fiction cinema. Since 2007, their works have been presented at international festivals and major museum institutions, including the Berlinale; the Biennale Cinema, Venice; the Locarno Film Festival; Hot Docs, Toronto; EIDF – EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul; RIDM – Montreal International Documentary Festival; IDFA, Amsterdam; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fondazione Prada, Milan; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. Their most recently awarded films include Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari (2024), presented out of competition at the Biennale Cinema in Venice and awarded at IDFA, Amsterdam; Spira Mirabilis (2016), in competition at the Biennale Cinema in Venice and winner of the Green Drop Award; Materia Oscura (2013) at the Trieste Film Festival; Il Castello (2011) at Hot Docs, Toronto; EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF), Seoul; the IDA Awards, Los Angeles; and the Torino Film Festival. In 2025, the Viennale dedicated a complete monograph to their work.

ROMAN KHIMEI AND YAREMA MALASHCHUK are filmmakers and visual artists working in Kyiv. Their works have been presented at major institutions including the Kunstverein Hannover; the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts; the PinchukArtCentre/Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice; the Kunsthaus Hamburg; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Albertinum, Dresden; the Haus der Kunst, Munich; the Castello di Rivoli, Turin; and the Galeria Arsenał, Białystok. Their short film Additional Scenes (2024) won the main award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and at the Ukrainian Film Critics’ Awards. They have also been awarded the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2021) and the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2020). Their video works are part of several collections: Fondazione In Between Art Film; the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; Kontakt, Bucharest; TBA21; Frac Bretagne, Rennes; Kiasma, Helsinki; and M HKA, Antwerp, among others. Khimei and Malashchuk are members of the art group Prykarpattian Theater collective.

JANIS RAFA is an artist who lives and works between Amsterdam and Athens. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Fondazione Merz, Turin; Salt, Istanbul; EMST – Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal; M HKA, Antwerp; the Turku Art Museum; the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; the Biennale Arte 2022, Venice; the Museu Tàpies, Barcelona; and MAXXI, Rome. Rafa holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Leeds and was an art resident on the Onassis Air Program (2024), and Artworks – Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2020), among others. Her work has been supported by the Mondriaan Fund, ART for the World, AFK, the Netherlands Film Fund, and the Greek Film Centre. Rafa’s work is part of a number of institutional and private collections, including those of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Centraal Museum, Utrecht; the Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Fondazione In Between Art Film; and the Dommering Foundation, Amsterdam.

P. STAFF is an artist based in Los Angeles and London. Staff’s work has been presented internationally at institutions such as the Bonner Kunstverein; Serralves, Porto; the Whitney Biennial 2024, New York; the Kunsthalle Basel; MOCA, Los Angeles; the Biennale Arte 2022, Venice; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Chisenhale Gallery, London; and the New Museum, New York. They have received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the Tate Liverpool/Keith Haring Foundation Artist Research Fellowship, and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts.

WANG TUO is an artist who lives and works in Beijing. Wang has recently held solo and group exhibitions at K21, Düsseldorf; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; the Power Station of Art, Shanghai; OCAT, Shenzhen/Shanghai; the Incheon Art Platform; UCCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; the Times Museum, Guangzhou; the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; the Salt Project, Beijing; the Taikang Space, Beijing; the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; the Queens Museum, New York; the Kino der Kunst, Munich; the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung.

YUYAN WANG is a filmmaker and video artist currently based in Paris. Her work has been showcased at art events and institutions including the 2025 Gwangju Biennale; the 12th Berlin Biennale; Tate, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; UCCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the Wanås Konst, Knislinge; and 3bisf – Centre d’arts contemporains, Aix-en-Provence; and at festivals such as Berlinale; the International Film Festival Rotterdam; Doc Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; CPH:DOX; and the European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück. Her films have received numerous awards.

MAYA WATANABE is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Amsterdam, where she teaches at the Rietveld Academie. Her work has been presented at institutions such as the De Pont Museum, Tilburg; MAXXI, Rome; the Sharjah Art Foundation; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Kyoto Art Center; Fridericianum, Kassel; Matadero Madrid; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and MASP, São Paulo. She has participated in various art biennials and festivals, including Manifesta 15, Barcelona; the Videobrasil festival, São Paulo; the Havana Biennial; the Asian Art Biennial, Taichung; the Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition; and the Beijing Biennial. She has also worked as an audiovisual art director on stage productions in Peru, Spain, Austria, and Italy. She is currently a PhD researcher in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.