International filmmaker guests:
(This page is updated during January.)
- John Anderson, film critic
- Anthony Baxter, director, Dangerous Game
- Laurent Bécue-Renard, director, Of Men and War
- Kristof Bilsen, director, Elephant’s Dream
- Antoine Boutet, director, South to North
- Jakob Fuhr, cinematographer, The First Sea
- Tanja Georgieva, producer, Once Upon a Dream
- Peter Gidal, director, Vanishing Point series
- Marina Goldovskaya, director, The Solovetsk Power & A Bitter Taste of Freedom
- Kateryna Gornostai, director, Euromaidan. Rough Cut
- Matthias von Gunten, director, ThuleTuvalu
- Nick Higgins, director, We Are Northern Lights
- Lia Jaspers, director, Match Me!
- Anders Jedenfors, director, Ute på landet
- Viesturs Kairišs, director, Pelican in the Desert
- Nino Kirtadze, director, Don’t Breathe
- Abhay Kumar, director, Placebo
- Sonja Kulkarni, producer, Match Me!
- Matthias Leupold, director, Lighter Than Orange
- Vitaly Mansky, director, Lenin’s Body
- Liivo Niglas, director, Journey to the Maggot Feeder
- Jos de Putter, director, See No Evil (CANCELLED)
- Claudia Richarz, director, Vulva 3.0 – Between Taboo and Fine-Tuning
- Keva Rosenfeld, director, All American High Revisited
- Richard Rossmann, director, Max and the Others
- Anja Salomonowitz, director, The 727 Days Without Karamo
- Nima Sarvestani, director, Those Who Said No
- Florian Schewe, director, We Were Rebels
- Sarita Sharma, producer, The First Sea
- Priit Tender, director, Journey to the Maggot Feeder
- Katarzyna Trzaska, director, Maximum Pleasure
- Ellen Vermeulen, director, 9999
- Elisabeth Weydt, production manager, The First Sea
- Liwaa Yazji, director, Haunted
- Zimu Zhang, director, Once Upon a Time in Hungary
- Agnieszka Zwiefka, director, Queen Of Silence
- Anders Østergaard, director, Meet the Master series
Finnish director guests:
- Maija Blåfield, director, Golden Age
- Markku Heikkinen, director, Men of Talvivaara Mine
- Henriikka Hemmi, director, My Neighbour Tuula
- Tonislav Hristov, director, Once Upon a Dream
- Heikki Häkkinen, director, The Land of Smiles
- Iiris Härmä, director, Leaving Africa – A Story About Friendship and Empowerment
- Antti Jääskeläinen, director, The Fast of the Forest
- Mina Laamo, director, Becoming Me
- Pekka Lehto, director, Emergency Call – A Murder Mystery
- Veera Lehto-Michaud, director, Destination Home
- Saija Mäki-Nevala, director, Kihniö
- Lasse Naukkarinen, director, The Woven Notebook
- Reijo Nikkilä, Apollo awarded
- Lotta Petronella, director, HOME. Somewhere.
- Maria Seppälä, director, Destination Home
- Mari Soppela, director, Who the Devil Can See in the Dark & Family Files
- Arto Tuohimaa, director, PMMP – Life is Right Here