Rabah Slimani

(Souk Ahras, 1982) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. He left medical school to study Literature and he is currently working on his Ph.D. He  also studied film editing, visual effects and 3-D. His first short fiction film was Un homme, deux théâtres (A Man, Two Theaters) in 2016, followed in 2017 by the documentary short Salmeen, Fitna in 2018 and Sauce algérienne (Algerian Sauce) in 2019. His film shorts have participated in over 95 international festivals. Wanibik is Slimani’s first feature, which he also produces.

Dorothee Myriam Kellou

French Algerian journalist and filmmaker. She graduated as a Fulbright scholar from the Master of Arts in Arab Studies at Georgetown University (Washington D.C.). As a journalist, she uncovered in the French newspaper Le Monde in 2016 the scandal of the French company Lafarge indirect funding of the Islamic State group during the war in Syria. Her work was rewarded with the TRACE International Prize for Investigative Reporting. In 2019, she premiered her first documentary film, In Mansourah you separated us, in the Vision du réel International Film Festival in Nyon (Switzerland). It received several awards including the human rights award in FIDADOC in Agadir.

Abdoulaye Diallo

Itziar Ituño

With a degree in Urban-Indus- Itziar Ituño trial Sociology and Politics, she studied at the Basauri Theater School. He debuted on television with the Basque series, Agur Olentzero, Agur and in 1999 he joined the Basque soap opera Goenkale where he would work until 2015. On the big screen he has participated in Holes in the sky and in Loreak (2014), a film nominated for the Goya Award for Best Film,  participating in the race for the 2016 Oscars. More recently, she joined the cast of the successful series Money Heist, where she plays inspector Raquel Murillo, aka Lisboa.

Guillermo Toledo

Actor and theater producer, tra- Guillermo Toledo ined at the Cristina Rota School, where he met Ernesto Alterio and Alberto San Juan, with whom he created the Animalario theater company. He has participated in television with the popular sitcom Siete Vidas. Twice  nominated for the Goya Awards for El otro lado de la cama and Crimen Ferpecto, he has participated in titles such as Morirás en Chafarinas, Juana la Loca, Días de fútbol, Los amantes pasajeros or Los favoritos de Midas. He is co-author of Razones para la rebeldía, prologued by Julio Anguita.

Arturo Dueñas

Bachelor of Arts, Qualified in Arturo Dueñas Cinematography and Filmmaking Course at the New York Film Academy. Full member of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain. Actor, director, producer (La Esgueva Films), editor and scriptwriter, he has  produced and directed the short films Anagnorisis (Anagnórisis, 2018), The flashes of the memory (Los destellos de la memoria, 2020) and Dakhla: cinema and oblivion (Dajla: cinema y olvido, 2020) nominated for Goya 2022 for Best Documentary Short Film, and the feature films Amateurs (Aficionados, 2011), Corsairs (Corsarios, 2015), Mission: Sahara (Misión: Sáhara, 2016), Built lands (Tierras construidas, 2019) and Pessoas (Pessoas, 2020), starring Greta Fernández, with music by Pedro Guerra.

Ekain Albite

Graduated from the Escola Su- Ekain Albite perior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC) specializing in directing, his final degree project is the fiction film Negu Hurbilak which is currently in the post-production phase. In 2020, he embarked on an adventure together with the Darahli association and the film production company Maluta Films, which led him to shoot a fictional short film in the Sahrawi refugee camps entitled Haizearen egia. This short film was presented at the ZINEBI festival in Bilbao and won the Jury’s Special Mention at the Euskal Zine Bilera festival in Lekeitio.

José M. Martín Almeida

Printer and editor with more than José M. Martín Almeida 80 published titles, three on the Sahara: Sahara in the heart, Letters and speeches of Lualy Mustafá and Haul Music. Vice President of the Association of Friends of the Saharawi People of Madrid. Collaborator with the Sahrawi Delegations since the mid-90s and with the FiSahara in its beginnings. Ideologist and promoter of the  Sahara4x4Solidario project in 2006. In 2013 promoter of a dental clinic project in Liberated Territories. Producer of Mutha and the death of Hamma Fuku.

Emilio Martí

He uses cinema and animation Emilio Martí in an experimental and demanding way, often collaboratively and even as an art therapy tool. He currently directs and produces the animated series Derechos Animados, which explains what human rights are through children’s drawings. His films include Desanimado (2011), a comedy about the fear of “being normal” and the animated documentaries Marhaba (2016) and Makun (No llores) – Dibujos en un CIE (2019), both works with the human right to migrate as a theme. His latest documentary, Little Sahara, explains the history of Western Sahara from the point of view of the 60 students of the Pioneer School in the refugee camps of Algeria).

Yolanda Prieto

Documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter at UNED Media, Audiovisual Media Center of the National Distance Education University (UNED). Between 2003 and 2008I made two documentaries: The identity wake up in collaboration with indigenous women in Lima, Peru and The dream of all times, in collaboration with the Kuna General Congress and with the support of AECI, in the indigenous region of Guna Yala, Panama. Since 2009 I have co-directed, together with Beatriz Pérez Galán,Using a collaborative methodology, the two documentary series produced by UNED MEDIA: Voces de Abya Yala. The right to indigenous communication (2018-19) and Western Sahara. Memories of a resistance (2021-22).