Meet Our Esteemed Directors
Discover the creative minds behind the films featured in our festival, showcasing their unique styles and professional journeys.


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Director Profiles
Excellent Director
With profound artistic insight and extraordinary narrative skills, this director has sublimated the film into a new audio-visual experience.


Sofia Lundqvist
Sofia Lundqvist, a Swedish director, is known for her delicate narrative techniques and unique visual language. She is good at transforming the subtle moments of daily life into touching stories, showing the soft and real side of human nature. Her works have impressed the audience with emotional images and profound themes, and she has gradually become a rising star in the international short film industry.
Diego Alvarez
Mexican director Diego Alvarez's works are full of vitality and multicultural colors, and he is good at depicting the complex relationships in contemporary society. He uses highly contagious scene shaping and strong narrative rhythm to vividly express the humanity and conflicts in the story. Alvarez's lens has a distinctive personal style, which has made him quickly rise to become a highly regarded new director.
Aisha Mohammed
Aisha Mohammed from Nigeria is good at exploring social issues through concise and powerful narratives, especially focusing on the themes of female perspective and self-identity. Her works not only show solid directing skills, but also have social insights, revealing the contradictions and struggles in people's lives in a real and profound way, which has won the resonance of many audiences.


Hiroshi Watanabe
Japanese director Hiroshi Watanabe is known for his poetic lens language and meticulous emotional depiction. His films are good at using quiet images and restrained expressions to capture the subtle emotional changes of characters. Watanabe's works always bring people warm power in silence, making the audience deeply moved without realizing it.




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