Meritxell Colell (Barcelona) is a film director, screenwriter and editor who studied at Pompeu Fabra University and the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. Her debut feature, Con el viento (2018), premiered at the Berlinale and won the Silver Biznaga for Best Film in the Zonazine section of the Málaga Film Festival. She subsequently co-directed Transoceánicas (2020) with Lucía Vassallo and released Dúo (2022), which won the Best Director Award at Málaga, and La ciutat a la vora (2022). She has participated in Berlinale Talents and the Ikusmira Berriak residency with Lejos de los árboles, her third fiction feature. Her work has been the subject of international retrospectives, and she has served on juries at festivals including San Sebastián and Gijón. Involved in the Cinema en curs educational project since 2007, she has worked as an editor on more than fifteen feature films selected for prestigious international festivals and is co-writer and co-editor of Estrany riu.