Olmo and the Seagull

Petra Costa is a Brazilian filmmaker whose work bridges the personal and the political, exploring memory, identity, democracy, and trauma. Founder of Busca Vida Filmes, she directed Elena (2012), Olmo and the Seagull (2015, co-directed with Lea Glob), and The Edge of Democracy (2019), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Her films — poetic, hybrid, and essayistic — have screened and received awards at festivals such as IDFA, Locarno, Sundance, and CPH:DOX, establishing cinema as a space of listening, invention, and resistance. Petra holds a degree in Anthropology from Columbia University and a master’s from the London School of Economics.

Lea Glob is a Danish filmmaker and cinematographer who graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2011. Since her early years, she has worked with still and video photography, developing a poetic and innovative visual language. Her graduation film, Meeting My Father Kasper Top Hat (2011), was nominated for the Robert Award and received the Most Innovative Documentary prize at the Sichuan TV Festival in China. In 2014, she co-directed Olmo and the Seagull with Petra Costa, winner of the Nordic:Dox Award at CPH:DOX, where she was also honored with the Reel Talent Award. She is also the co-director of Venus (2016), a documentary exploring young female desire, selected for the First Appearance Competition at IDFA. Her work delicately explores themes such as identity, intimacy, and the female body.

Olivia Corsini is an Italian actress born in Modena in 1979. She graduated from the “Paolo Grassi” Academy of Dramatic Arts in Milan and continued her training with renowned artists such as Tina Nilsen (Odin Teatret), Julie Anne Stanzak (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch), Kim Duk Soo (Samul Nori School, South Korea), Carolyn Carlson, and Emma Dante. She was a member of Enrique Vargas’s Teatro de los Sentidos for two years before joining the historic Théâtre du Soleil in 2002, under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine. There, she performed in collective creations such as The Last Caravanserai, Les Éphémères, and The Castaways of the Mad Hope. Since 2012, she has collaborated with the international collective If Human, based in Brussels. Her artistic journey is marked by the fusion of physical theater, poetic language, and collective creation.

Serge Nicolaï is a French actor, scenographer, and theater and film director born in Marseille in 1967. He studied drama in Paris and Kraków and has been a member of the Théâtre du Soleil since 1997, collaborating extensively with Ariane Mnouchkine both on stage and in cinema. He received the Molière Award for Best Set Design for The Last Caravanserai in 2005 and has played major roles in productions such as Tambours sur la Digue, Les Éphémères, and The Castaways of the Mad Hope. In 2012, alongside Olivia Corsini, he directed A Puerta Cerrada, an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos with the Argentine company Timbre 4, led by Claudio Tolcachir. He also works in French television and film, cultivating a multidisciplinary career that combines acting, directing, and visual design.