Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker working with film as an instrument. Composed as film-poems, her films travel through territories and events haunted by the ever-lasting impacts of internal and external forms of colonialism and their footprints on the earth and different forms of life. Her practice can also take the shape of writing, critical pedagogy, installations, film programs or ephemeral events, which are expansions or developments of her films.

Her works have been presented, screened and discussed at film festivals, seminars and institutions such as Berlinale Forum/Forum Expanded; New York Film Festival; TIFF Wavelengths, Toronto; BFI, London; Cinéma du Réel, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Fondazione In Between Art Film, Venice; LUX Moving Images, London; Tabakalera, San Sebastián; Whitechapel Gallery, London; MAM – Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo; Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo; Matadero, Madrid; Jameel Arts Center, Dubai; Confort Moderne, Poitiers; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Sonic Acts, Amsterdam; among others.

Ana Vaz is also a founding member of the COYOTE collective along with Tristan Bera, Nuno da Luz, Elida Hoëg and Clémence Seurat, an interdisciplinary group working between ecology and political science through conceptual and experimental formats.

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Zaina Bseiso is a filmmaker and curator working primarily in documentary and experimental cinema. Her interests revolve around diasporic relations to land, hope, and potentialities. She explores Return as a notion that conflates and contracts sounds, images and ways of existing in the world. Her practice mainly traverses among Palestine, Egypt, Cuba, Mexico, and the US.

Her work has screened at Curtas Vila do Conde, Guanajuato, RIDM, DokLeipzig and Ajyal Film Festival, among others. She is co-founder of Bahía Colectiva, a community of filmmakers that collaborate in practice and curation.

Zaina is also part of the programming team at the Points North Institute/Camden International Film Festival and a 2022 Sundance Humanities Sustainability fellow.

She received her Master’s degree in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.