Mona D’hertefelt is a Ghent-based filmmaker with a background in animation and a passion for stop motion. She graduated from RITCS School of Arts with a film that uses humour to make a topic close to her heart — the climate crisis — accessible to a broad audience. Mona’s work is driven by her commitment to sustainability and climate awareness, inspired by her experience as a climate striker and her involvement with KSA Nationaal.
lau persijn (they/them) is a Brussels-based filmmaker and co-founder of One Field Fallow (OFF), a queer collective and socio-cultural space, and of ACAB Kino, a grassroots cinema centred on solidarity, community and resistance. lau graduated from KASK School of Arts in Ghent with the film underneath it flickers. lau's film practice stems from a fascination with more-than-human ecologies and explores cinema as a medium for questioning and deconstructing dominant perspectives. underneath it flickers was selected for the Belgian Student Shorts Competition at Film Fest Gent and awarded the Prix du Jury for Jeune Cinéma Belge at Festival En Ville in Brussels. The film was screened at venues including Beursschouwburg, Het Bos, KASKcinema, Pianofabriek, RITCScinema and WIELS.
Jonas Staal is a visual artist and researcher whose work has for years been situated at the boundaries between art, politics, and public institutions. His practice encompasses installations or performances that often function as alternative public institutions (parliament, court, etc.). Staal asks how art can contribute to democratic processes and how new forms of coexistence can be conceived and practiced.
Maui Druez is a Brussels-based independent filmmaker and visual anthropologist whose work explores themes of interconnectedness, coexistence, and relationships with landscapes, waters, and ecologies through environmental storytelling and (eco)feminist thinking. She is currently working on a feature documentary set in central Portugal that traces eucalyptus monoculture, forest fires, and multispecies entanglement to question extractive notions of progress. Born in a seaside town, her deep bond with the ocean continues to shape a practice rooted in listening, reciprocity, and relational ways of being.
