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Moderator – Eyal Sivan

Filmmaker, essayist and mentor born in Palestine-Israel, Eyal Sivan is the founder and artistic director of the Marseille-based film production and distribution company, Momento!
Known for his controversial films, over his more then 35-year career, Sivan directed more than a dozen worldwide awarded feature-length political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematic body of work was shown and awarded in various prestigious festivals. Beside theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan’s work is regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world and continuously inspire scholars and researchers from various disciplines.
In parallel to his filmmaking practices, he publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary ethics, political crimes and representation, use of memory, archives and archival footage, artistic research etc.
Former associate professor in media production at the University of East London (UEL) Sivan co-led the MA program in Film, Video and New Media. Following several years as visiting professor and program adviser of the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy, Sivan became the program’s principal professor and head of research in cinema and artistic research at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AhK).
Based in Marseille since 2019 Sivan conducts an extensive activity of worldwide masterclasses, teaching, lecturing, mentoring and supervisions of academic theses.