Short Film Jury
Ismaël El Iraki
MEETINGS:
- On the festival from 27th of March to 1st of April
Born in Morocco in 1983, Ismaël El Iraki studied directing at Femis School where he directed his short films Carcasse, African science fiction film set in the Sahara Desert (Short Film Corner Award at Cannes) and Harash, punk thriller in Casablanca (Attention Talent Prize and Special Mention of the jury in Clermont-Ferrand).
From there, as a Maghrebian filmmaker, he claimed the right to imagination and style, far from the naturalistic treatment of social subjects that often characterizes the cinema of the region. Passionate about music, he founded a concert recording company in Paris and produced photos for music bands as well as video installations for the Venice Film Festival.
At this 2020 Mostra, he presented in Official Selection his first feature film Zanka Contact (french title : Burning Casablanca), a genres movie, plural, somewhere between a rock film, a love story, a western and a Tarantino thriller. The singer Khansa Batma, the lead, won the Lion for the best actress Orizzonti there. The movie wase released in France in 2021 after a long career in festivals : Cinemed Montpellier (Jury Prize), London, Busan, Geneva, Karlovy Vary, Louxor (Best Film), Sao Paulo, Sarlat, Music & Cinema Marseille(Prize for directing), Shanghaï, Cabourg, Annonay (Best Film)…
Since then, he has been working on his next projects, including a family thriller set in the milieu of cannabis trafficking between Morocco and Spain: Les Fils de La Louve.
Eloi Ragot
MEETINGS:
- On the festival from 27th of March to 1st of April
Eloi Ragot is a Franco-German composer using many different playing and recording techniques, mixing electronic and acoustic sounds and instruments to create unique textures and soundscapes.
He has notably composed the original music for the series La Trêve (2 seasons on Netflix), Invisible (RTBF, 2020), Women of the night (co-written with Hannes de Maeyer, also on Netflix) and most recently the series The Window (ZDF/Streamz) and Des Gens Bien airing in Spring 2023 on Arte). He has also worked on several feature films including the Canadian films Reservoir and Jour de merde (released on March 24th,, 2023).
Self-taught pianist and guitarist, he learned the trumpet at the Conservatory and then took courses in musical analysis and writing. He first played in various musical collectives (Rock and Jazz, then DJ) before composing for his first short film in 2008.
Eloi has been awarded several for masterclasses and art residencies, including a masterclass led by the composer Jean-Michel Bernard as part of the Aubagne International Film Festival (Music & Cinema Marseille), as well as the prestigious Emergence and Berlinale Talent 2017 programs.
