Darya Bassel has a background in TV and commercial production. In 2011, she joined Docudays UA IHRDFF, initially as a programmer and later as head of the industry platform. She became a producer in 2013 and has participated in Eurodoc, Ex Oriente, and EAVE.

Notable titles she has produced include OUTSIDE (2022), the drama BUTTERFLY VISION (2022), and the satirical drama THE EDITORIAL OFFICE (2024). Her latest title, SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH, directed by Olha Zhurba, premiered in Venice in 2024 and received multiple awards.

photo © Hanna Hrabarska

Nir Ferber is a lecturer for film theory and holds a PhD in film studies. Alongside his academic work, he works as a film programmer and is currently a member of the curating collective of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin-Brandenburg.  

photo © Nir Ferber

Konstanty Kuzma is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin, an online journal on Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European cinema. He studied philosophy in Berlin, Berkeley, and Munich, and joined the Philosophy Institute at the University of Stuttgart as a post-doctoral researcher in 2024.

He is currently editing a book on film and urban spaces in Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine under contract with Routledge, and producing an archival film on forced labor during World War Two.

photo © Sebastian Šimek