Dr. Eda Elif Tibet is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, visual anthropologist, songwriter, composer, vocalist, and two-time Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow. She held and Advanced Postdoctoral Research position at the Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, and previously held a fellowship at the University of Oxford. She served on the Executive Board of the Swiss Young Academy and currently is the Co-President of the Swiss Anthropology Association’s Interface Commission. Working across film, music, ethnography, and environmental humanities, Tibet explores Indigenous and local knowledge systems, the commons, mobility justice, and sustainability transformations through extensive fieldwork across Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. She is the founder and director of EthnoKino, an international film festival and Doc Impact Lab connecting filmmakers and storytellers worldwide. Alongside her filmmaking, she writes, composes, and performs original music, bringing cinema, sound, science, and storytelling together as interconnected forms of creative and transformative practice.