Helen Salomão, fotógrafa e poetisa baiana, vem construindo pontes e abrindo caminhos para o protagonismo negro por meio da fotografia documental. A retratista, que atualmente vive em São Paulo, também estuda direção de fotografia e transita no meio audiovisual.

The Bahian photographer and poet, has been building bridges and opening paths to Black protagonism through documentary photography. The portrait artist, who currently lives in São Paulo, is also studying photographic art direction and travels in the audiovisual medium.

She likes Björk, reggae, rap, Caribbean music. She is particularly fond of Maryse Condé, but also of Édouard Glissant and Virginia Woolf, to name but a few. She is fascinated by the Americas. Lecturer, Maboula Soumahoro is a civilizationist of the English-speaking world. She lectures in the United States and France, in Tours, where she teaches at the university. For the past 15 years, she has been interested in the African-American communities in the United States and the African diaspora.

Programmer at the Sao Paulo Film Festival in the 1980s, the Brazilian of Korean origin has since made eight films and adopted a nomadic lifestyle. The globetrotter, with short hair and wax jewelry, always chooses the lightest possible clothing so as not to clutter her backpack. And her destinations are off the beaten path, off the beaten track, as she says. So today is an exception to be here in Europe. Iara Lee hopes to "touch at least one heart" here, regardless of the audience, a hall of 50 or 500 people. Meeting with a specialist in sharing.

Mom, but not only that. Blogger, but not only. Director, but not entirely. She has no box but one. "I'm Mai, that's all!" Her name is pronounced "maille". Her life is made up of countless intertwined threads. In her documentary Les Rivières, she offers us a walk on her inland rivers. Mai explores parts of her being that she had preferred to keep silent and parts she hadn’t discovered until then.

Having lived here for more than 40 years, she is considered to be the flag bearer of the Haitian voodoo. This cult, concealed for several centuries in the registry of sorcery by the literary works of supposed anthropologists, is fervently practiced nowadays, in a constant interaction with the public.

Novelist, musician, anthropologist... She accumulates titles as she travels around the world before permanently residing in Quebec. A university professor, this native of Palestine puts her experiences as a migrant and her training as an anthropologist at the service of her research in South Africa, Quebec, and in the Arab world…