Jury

Lordan Zafranović

Born in 1944 in Maslinica on the Croatian island of Šolta. Graduated from the Marine School in Split, then got a degree in literature and fine arts at the Teacher Training College. Obtained his BA from Film Academy (FAMU) in Prague in 1971, in the class of Academy Award winner Elmar Kloss. He has a master’s degree in directing. After returning from studies, he lived and worked in Zagreb. From 1991 until 1994, he lived and worked in Paris and spent 1992 in Vienna. Since 1995, based in Prague. He has been involved in film since his earliest age. In the early 1960s, at the age of sixteen, he started making amateur experimental films. In 1965, he started producing and directing short, medium and feature films, documentaries and documentary-experimental films, as well as TV series. Dedicated his entire life to research on the art of film. So far, he has made about 80 films, as a director and screenwriter for most of his works. During his life in Prague, he was engaged at FAMU as a professor of film directing.

Hajnc Hermans

In 1982 he founded the international short film festival Berlin – interfilm. Since 2018 he is also founder/artistic director of the Almagro International Film Festival, Spain. Director of the short film festival Going Underground in the subway in Berlin/Seoul. He is a co-founder of the Zebra poetry film festival Berlin. In 2014 he was the director of the ShortVisions short film festival Ningbo, China. Gave workshops and seminars in 35 countries, works as a script consultant and is a professor since 2016 at the SCAU University, Guangzhou.

Milan Nikodijević

Born in Kragujevac in 1956. Obtained his BA from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Works as a journalist and film critic since 1978 for almost all daily papers, periodicals, TV and radio stations. Awarded for his achievements in media work. Director, writer and producer of documentaries: Censored Without Censorship, What They Want, Those Lunatics?, Goodbye and See You in Next Ambush, Winning Freedom, Migration Collector, Plastic Bomb, Mica and the Stories Around Her, Karamazov – Pictures of the Soul, Serenity of the End, Trapped Time, as well as documentary TV series Slike duše, Posetilac, Rokopisac, Memento. 

Author of books: Zabranjeni bez zabrane, Scenarija pisana levom ili desnom rukom, Slike duše, Od fajronta do svitanja, Dinko. Director of the Vrnjačka Banja Film Screenplay Festival for a number of years. Professor at the Novi sad Academy of Arts Novi Sad.

Đanfilipo Pedote

Producer, director and screenwriter. He has produced over 40 feature films and documentaries with directors such as Agostino Ferrente, Sandro Baldoni, Alina Marazzi, Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola, Paolo Rosa and Studio Azzurro, Giuseppe Bertolucci; Godfrey Reggio, invited by the main international festivals. He teaches at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

Dragomir Zupanc

Born in 1946 in Ljubljana, obtained his BA in 1971 in film and TV directing from the FDA in Belgrade. Chief editor of the TV Montenegro entertainment and recreational program from 1985 to 1990 and the RTS principal director from 1996 to 2010. Auteur of several television series and shows (Želimir Žilnik, Several Pose Frame, Makajevev, the Mystery, Yard Conversations, Harpsichord in Four Images, Painting Styles of the 20th Century, Something Beautiful, Leave Everything and Read) and documentaries (Danilo Kiš – Recollections, Memories, Where the vines cry based on the diaries by Borislav Pekić, Davorin Jenko – creator of anthems and vigils, Master Debeljak’s Ordeals). Winner of the Gold Medal of Belgrade 2005 (Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade), Plaques Jovan Aćin (UFUS), Golden Olives 2003 and Silver Olives 2005 (TV Festival Bar), Golden Maple for contribution to cinematography 2018 (Jahorina fest). Member of the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences. Artistic director of the Slovenian Film Days. Lives and works in Belgrade.