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BREAKFASTS 2025

The Breakfasts are an unmissable event to develop your network! 

An opportunity for directors and producers to meet with key industry decision-makers. Festival programmers, distributors, industry platforms and buyers from all around the world gathered at the same place! 

Session 1 | Sunday 18 May, 9:00 @Terrasse du Festival, hosted by The Five Nordics 

With: 

FLAVIO ARMONE – Lights On
PIERRE-YVES BEZAT – Silverbelt Films
ANNA DEMIANENKO – CineSud
ELENA DIESBACH – Munich Film Up!
CORD DUEPPE – interfilm Berlin
PER FIKSE – Minimalen Short Film Festival
AILTON FRANCO JR. – Rio de Janeiro ISFF – Curta Cinema
ANDREA GATOPOULOS – Gargantua Film Distribution
PARISA GHASEMI – Linz Int’l Short Film Festival | Film Talent Academy
OANA GHERA – Bucharest Int’l Experimental Film Festival | European Short Pitch
ALEXANDRA GRAMATKE – Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
SARAH HOCH – Guanajuato IFF
ALICE KHAROUBI – Red Sea Film Festival
JAIME MANRIQUE – BOGOSHORTS
MATTEO PIANEZZI – Figari ISFF
LAURENCE RIPOLL – Festival Music & Cinema Marseille
NATACHA SEWERYN – FIFIB – Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux
GALINA TAGAMLITZKA – IN THE PALACE ISFF
BEN VANDENDAELE – Radiator IP Sales | FilmConnector
CARLA VULPANI – La Biennale – Venice IFF
NELA ZIELIŃSKA – New Europe Film Sales 

 

Session 2 | Monday 19 May, 9:00 @Terrasse du Festival, hosted by CineSud 

With: 

MAIALEN BELOKI BERASATEGUI – San Sebastián IFF
ZAHRA BENASRI – Hors du bocal
OLIVIER BERLEMONT – Origine Films
DONNIE CAI Dogme23

ELENA CIOFALO – ShorTO Film Market
RUBÉN CORRAL – ZINEBI – Int’l Festival of Documentary and Short Film
YVETTE DE LOS SANTOS – Feelsales
REBECCA DE PAS – IFFR
VINCENT FÖRSTER – Berlinale Generation
ALEXANDRA HRONCOVÁ – Cinefila
PHILIP ILSON – London Short Film Festival
YVONNE ASHLEY KOUADJO – New York Times – Op-Docs
HÉLÈNE LAMBERT – FIFF Namur
JULIE MARNAY – European Short Pitch
ALICIA MARTINEZ – Brussels Short Film Festival
ANDREW MOHSEN – El Gouna Film Festival
EMILIE POIRIER – FNC Montréal
QUERALT PONS SERRA – MoreThan Films
MAYA SFAKIANAKI – Drama ISFF
ELIZA SUBOTOWICZ – Warsaw Film Festival
LÉA ALIA TRIBOULET – Salaud Morisset 

  

Session 3 | Wednesday 21 May, 9:00 @Terrasse du Festival, hosted by Catalan Films 

With: 

JASON ANDERSON – Aspen Shortsfest, Macau ISFF
AGUSTÍ ARGELICH – Cerdanya Film Festival
GREGORY AUDERMATTE – Arte France
SONJA BAKSA – TIFF
SIMONE BARDONI – Concorto Film Festival | Lights On
FANNY BARROT – Clermont-Ferrand ISFF & Market
JOHN CANCIANI – Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
LUCIE CANISTRO – UniversCiné
AURÉLIE CHESNÉ – France Télévisions
ANAÏS COLPIN – Manifest
ANNE GASCHÜTZ – Filmfest Dresden | Locarno Film Festival
LUCE GROSJEAN – Miyu Distribution
TARA KARAJICA – PÖFF Shorts
NATHALIE LEBEL – L’Agence du Court Métrage
SOŇA MORGENTHALOVÁ – MIDPOINT Institute
NINA RODRIGUEZ – Guanajuato IFF
JULIE ROUSSON – Clermont-Ferrand ISFF & Market
JASMIN SCHENK VITALE – IDM Film Commission Südtirol | MASO
LÉO SOESANTO – Riga IFF
NADJA TENNSTEDT – DOK Leipzig
TAM DAN VU – Travelling Distribution
HEIDI ZWICKER – Sundance Film Festival 

 

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