PROGRAM

Natalia Mirzoyan is an animation director and artist based in Estonia, originally from Yerevan, Armenia. She holds a Master's degree in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). Her films, including My Childhood Mystery Tree (2009), Chinti (2012), Five Minutes to Sea (2018), and Merry Grandmass (2020), have been selected for numerous prestigious festivals, such as Berlinale, Annecy, Zagreb, and Hiroshima, earning her multiple awards. Winter in March (2025) is her first puppet animation film.

Natalia is working with a range of techniques, from hand-drawn to stop-motion. In addition to her work in animation, she is an artist, illustrator, and sketcher.

André Correia (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist from Lisbon based in Berlin. Ranging from animation and illustration to performance art, his personal work is character driven and focuses on portraying the absurdities of everyday life. Every new project is an opportunity to explore new techniques and materials, discovering the strongest way to tell a story.

Born in Budapest in 1983, Suzanne Sebo moved to France at a young age. She graduated as both an architect in Paris and a stage designer in Lyon.
Between 2007 and 2011, alongside her first projects in Paris, she worked across theatre, street theatre and contemporary circus, developing a practice in scenography, set painting and immersive environments. Since 2008, she has developed a graphic practice alongside various circus artists, particularly focusing on the representation of movement.
From 2011 to 2015, she lived in Osaka on a Monbukagakusho research scholarship, where she explored industrial port landscapes through scenography. During this time, she also expanded her artistic practice to include drawing, painting and ceramics, while studying the Japanese language intensively.
Since 2016, she has worked as an architect specializing in cultural and performing arts spaces, while also writing for a journal on scenography and circus-related spatial practices.
For over twenty years, she has maintained a personal practice in painting and drawing. Since 2022, she has developed live performances combining ink painting and music with musician Catherine Exbrayat.
In 2025, she created "The Troublemakers Parade", a site-specific street art performance combining painting and small-scale animated film projection in the village of Saint-Laurent-le-Minier. "The Troublemakers" is her first film selected for competition at a film festival. Her work explores the dialogue between disciplines, approached as interconnected artistic languages.

We are an artist duo bridging traditional and digital forms of storytelling. Both visual artists, Karina is Venezuelan-American and Jáchym comes from the Czech Republic; our different backgrounds bring new perspectives to our work. We met during our studies at the University of the Arts London, and have continued to collaborate ever since.

Dániel Diószeghy is a Hungarian animation filmmaker born in Slovakia. He graduated with a Master’s degree in animation from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and currently works as a freelance animation artist.

Director. Affiliated with production company CAVIAR. Founding member of creative house mimoid. Known for his fluid and beautiful artwork, he has created numerous memorable videos, primarily for advertising. In recent years, he has also worked on popular TV anime series such as the ending themes for "Made in Abyss - The Golden Land of the Blazing Sun" and "Chainsaw Man" episode 9. He has also collaborated extensively with international artists such as BATTLES, FLYING LOTUS, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, and Justice Starring Tame Impala, expanding his activities both domestically and internationally.

Niko Radas was born in Zagreb in 1980., he graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2004, he has been working at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče, facilitating art as a therapy programmes. Alongside with a variety of classical art techniques that he uses in his work, Niko initiated a music and a film workshop, in which he writes scrips, designs scenography for animated films and documentaries, which he then produces together with patients.

Born in Busan in 1988
Graduated from Kyeongwon University of Art, Department of Animation in 2013
Currently the CEO of CatClaw Studio

Delia Hess studied animation at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. Since her graduation in 2012 she has been working independently on her own short film projects as well as on commissioned films and illustrations. In 2015 she co-founded the animation collective Papierboot.

Julie Charette studied fine arts and animation at Concordia University, where she developed a strong interest in messy mediums, traditional animation and under the camera work. Her graduation film « Milk Teeth » has been selected in numerous international festivals. Since then, she has worked as an animator on several independant short and feature films.