All MENTORS
Writer, Director, Editor
Akio Fujimoto
A filmmaker working across Asia. His debut Passage of Life (2017) won two awards in the Asian Future section at Tokyo IFF. His second film Along the Sea (2020) premiered at San Sebastián IFF, and received the Oshima Prize and the Shindo Kaneto Gold Prize. His latest film, Lost Land (2025), a drama centered on Rohingya refugees, won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti section at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.
Film Director & Screenwriter
Makbul Mubarak
Makbul Mubarak is a film director and screenwriter. He made five short films before embarking on his feature debut Autobiography, premiered at Venice Film Festival 2022 and subsequently selected as the Indonesia's submission to the Academy Awards 2023.