Rasha Salti is a researcher, writer and curator of art and film, living in Marseille. She co-curated several film programs including Saving Bruce Lee: African and Arab Cinema in the Era of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy with Koyo Kouoh at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2018). Salti has also co-curated with Kristine Khouri the documentary and archival exhibition Past Disquiet at the MACBA (2015), at the HKW in Berlin (2016), the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende in Santiago de Chile (2018), the Sursock Museum in Beirut (2018), the Zeitz MoCAA in Cape Town (2023), and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2024). In 2022, Salti was one of the co-curators of the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, and part of the curatorial of the 12th edition of the Berlin Biennial.

Daniela Persico (Treviso, 1981) is film critic and programmer, based in Milan. She is the Head of special events and she is part of the selection committee of Locarno Film Festival. She’s founder and editor in chief of the online quarterly Filmidee ( www.filmidee.it ) and she manages the Filmidee Summer School. She’s in the selection’s committee of International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg (Germany), she is consultant for Nara Film Festival (Japon), Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy) and ISreal – Festival di cinema del reale (Nuoro, Italy). She wrote essays for various collective books and edited books on the work of Claire Simon (2008), Wang Bing (2010), Ross McElwee (2013) and Emmanuel Carrère (2014). In 2022, she was appointed artistic director of the 40th edition of the Bellaria Film Festival.