Jozefien Van der Aelst (°1996, BE) is a film director and writer working in Berlin and Antwerp. In her hybrid films, often on the brink of collapse, she explores the relationship between humans and nature, encompassing themes such as emergence, spatial narrativity, cinematic space, cartography, landscape, catastrophe, and ecology. She holds an MA in Philosophy and a BA in Theatre, Film & Literature Studies, and later enrolled at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin as a film director.