Mara Matta

Mara Matta is Associate Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', where she is also the President of the BA Degree in 'Global Humanities' and the coordinator of the 'Global History Lab Program in collaboration with Princeton University. She possesses a PhD in South and East Asian Studies awarded by the University of Naples 'L'Orientale' and has worked for almost twenty years with filmmakers and playwrights in different Asian countries and among some South Asian di...

Hussain Danesh

Film Critic, Documentary Filmmaker
Danesh was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He studied film making in Iran and is a member of Swedish Film Critics Association.
He directed his first short – 8mm -- film "Mirror" (1992) in Iran. He worked as a writer and film director at the Afghan Film in Kabul between 1993 – 1995, during which he also held a set of screenwriting workshops for Afghan filmmakers. He wrote “Bread and Shoe” and “Innocent” scripts.
He directed “The Passage”, a feature documentary abo...

Nima Sarvestani

Nima Sarvestani (born December 22, 1958) is a Swedish Iranian documentary filmmaker. Born in Shiraz, Iran, Sarvestani worked as a journalist in Iran for several years reporting on social and political issues. In 1984 Sarvestani left his homeland and immigrated to Sweden. Despite changing his perspective forever, he has remained faithful to the subjects that interested him as a journalist in Iran. In 1992, he founded his own production company in Stockholm called Nima Film Productions, which allo...

Birger Nilsson

Documentary filmmaker and teacher at the Red Cross Folk High School in documentary film.
He has worked full-time with TV productions and Documentary films since the end of the 1980s. The subjects he focused on are Environment, culture, politics.
Many of his documentary films describe life in different parts of the world, Africa, Asia and America are parts of the world in which he has made many films.
Now he supervise young film students in making films with a global focus. The film classes and h...

Mohsen Hosseni

Mohsen Hosseini is born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is a filmmaker and painter.
He immigrated to Iran with his family when he was a child. He studied filmmaking in Iran. Hosseini returned to Afghanistan in 2005 and made four documentaries and six animated films. He worked as an instructor
for animation films at the Goethe Institute of Kabul.
The cartoon exhibition in Kabul and Tehran is another of Mohsen Hosseini's activities. He was the director of the first animation festival in Kabul and was al...