Ismaël is developing a “cinématière“, a hybrid artistic practice that expands cinema to the field of contemporary art. His work questions technologies, memory, the virtual and explores the porous worlds of the image. His films Swatted and Dark Waves received several awards (Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Guanajuato…). Ismaël is also the winner of the ADAGP Digital Art Revelation Prize and the Emergences Prize. His feature film DEEPFAKE is currently in development. 

Born in Bucharest, in 1979, Catalin Cristuțiu has been working as an editor on some of the most appreciated films in recent Romanian cinema. He has a long-time collaboration with director Radu Jude, starting with Radu’s first widely acclaimed THE TUBE WITH A HAT and continuing for all his later projects to date, including AFERIM! (2015 Silver Bear for Best Direction in Berlinale) and BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (2021 Golden Bear). Among his long list of credits: IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (directed by Florin Serban, awarded at Berlinale 2009 with The Alfred Bauer Prize and Jury Grand Prix), CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (by Cristian Nemescu, Prix Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2007), the animated documentary CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND (by Anca Damian, awarded in Locarno, CPH:DOX, Annecy and Jihlava IFF), the documentaries APOCALYPSE ON WHEELS and COLD WAVES (both by Alexandru Solomon), BLUE BOY (directed by Manuel Abramovich – Silver Bear for Short Film, 2018) and SODIERS. STORY FROM FERENTARI (by Ivana Mladenovic, world premiere at TIFF 2017).