Hadil Alramli is a Palestinian-Belgian producer, journalist, filmmaker, and researcher in art and social sciences. She has more than fifteen years of rich experience working as a photojournalist, trainer and art director with various institutions in the Middle East and Europe. She holds a MSc in Cinema from the Luca School of Arts in Belgium and a BA in Media and Communication from the Islamic University of Gaza. Hadil has received an array of national & international prizes, including the Arts in Society Award in Belgium for her work on applying cinema therapy in adolescent education—a research project now integrating clinical applications and expanding on an international scale.
Mohanad Yaqubi (Kuwait, 1981) is a filmmaker, producer, and co-founder of Idioms Film in Ramallah. He is also a member of Subversive Film, a collective dedicated to redistributing militant cinema. Since 2017, Yaqubi has lectured and conducted research at KASK School of Arts in Ghent. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Birzeit University, he later earned a master’s in Feature Film from Goldsmiths, UK. His research focuses on archives and solidarity movements from a Palestinian perspective. His films include Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016), which premiered at Toronto IFF, Berlinale, and Cinéma du Réel, and R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity (2022), which premiered at documenta15 and IDFA.
Omar Jabary Salamanca is a writer, teacher, organizer and research fellow based at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His work is concerned with the governance of space, matter, bodies and environments in a range of historical and geographical contexts, particularly in the Middle East. He is also interested in anticolonial histories and circulations of visual and material culture. Combining theory with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and archival practice, his work and practice crosses the fields of critical geography, political ecology, science and technology studies and Middle East studies. Omar is co-founder of United Screens for Palestine and the Kitchen and Sabr collectives.
Flora Woudstra Hablé is a Brussels-based writer, filmmaker and cinema programmer. Her work focuses on community, equity and decoloniality, with a special focus on the Levant. A graduate of the research masters Cultural Analysis and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam, she recently completed a bachelor in filmmaking at RITCS and is currently producing a short film at LUCA Brussels.
