Jury

Aksel Kielland is a critic and commentator for the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet. Since 2008, he has been an editor and contributor to the catalogue for the Bergen International Film Festival, where he also works as a programme advisor.

Carmen Gray is a New Zealander based in Berlin. As a film critic and journalist, she writes for *The New York Times*, *Sight & Sound*, and *Criterion*, among others, often focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. As a critic, she contributes to *The Film Verdict*, and was previously the Film Editor for London-based magazine *Dazed & Confused*. She is a programmer and selection committee member for the Generation section of the Berlin International Film Festival and the Winterthur International Short Film Festival, and a programming consultant for Open City Docs.

Grégory Cavinato graduated in 2004 from ELICIT in Brussels (aesthetics and philosophy of film/screenwriting and film analysis) – his thesis was supervised by the renowned director Luc Dardenne – and has since worked as a screenwriter, translator, subtitler (particularly for the Brussels Off screen film festival), and freelance critic for various Belgian newspapers and websites, notably Cinergie.be (since 2005), FilmMagie (2016-2020), and Europe (since 2019). He is a member of the international film critics' organisation FIPRESCI and the Union of Belgian Film Critics U.P.C.B.

Anna Váró is an Associate Professor at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary in Budapest, and also works as a film and theatre critic. She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Debrecen, and later Film and Media at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She obtained her DLA degree from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. She has published numerous reviews, festival reports, and essays in various Hungarian and international publications. She has been a member of several juries – including FIPRESCI juries – at many international film festivals.

Matej Svoboda, originally from Liberec, studied Czech and English language at the Faculty of Education but never entered the teaching profession. He currently lives in Prague and works as a film publicist for the web MovieZone.czand as an editor for the television magazines TV Max and Týdeník Televize. He is a co-author of books Encyclopaedia of Action Cinema and The Nineties in Film.

Mike Naafs studied film at the University of Amsterdam, where he was also the editor-in-chief of the student film magazine. After graduating, he worked for several festival publications and magazines, including Dutch Filmkrant. He has been a member of FIPRESCI juries at international film festivals in Kyiv, Cannes, Moscow, Cluj-Napoca, and St. Petersburg. He is currently a freelance chef at a psychiatric hospital.

Since 2005, Milja Mikkola has been part of the team at the legendary Midnight Sun Film Festival, held annually above the Arctic Circle in Finland. She currently holds the position of festival programmer. She is also a member of the Kina Orion programming team in Helsinki and co-director of the Helsinki film festival Viva Erotica, a celebration of the history of sex which screens films from original prints. Milja studied film theory at Brunel University in London and visual journalism at the University of Tampere in Finland. As she belongs to a dying breed of traditional film projectionists, her true roots are in cinema.

Pamela Pianezza originally wanted to be a spy, but never found anyone she was happy to perform the role for. So, she became a multimedia artist and visual arts teacher who also devotes herself to exploring various possible forms of storytelling. She works primarily with images and text (the relationship between which she also enjoys exploring), but also with sounds, collages, and performances. Having studied art and journalism and worked for a time as a reporter in the film industry, she found her favourite playground at the intersection of fiction and documentary. She lives in the southern French city of Montpellier.

Reinhard Bradatsch writes film reviews for the Austrian magazine Ray. He is a co-founder and editor of the now defunct internet film magazine allesfilm.com. He regularly writes reports from national and international film festivals – for example, Viennale (AT), Crossing Europe (AT), Bratislava IFF (SK). He was a member of the FIPRESCI jury at international festivals in Cottbus and Bratislava. At the 3rd Cinematik IFF 2008 Piešťany, he curated a section dedicated to Austrian documentary films.

Roberto Donati is a Professor of Literature and Film, a writer, and a screenwriter. His most recent publications include the monograph *Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone* (Gremese, 2018), the horror graphic novel *L’abisso è ovunque* (Weird Book, 2019), the poetry collection *postmoderni* (Transeuropa, 2020), the collective film essay *L’intelligenza delle cose. Il cinema di Mario Martone* (ETS, 2021), and several screenplays for short films, including *Cicciolina Pocket* (Keep Digging Prod., 2021). From 2009 to 2012, he was the creator and curator of the film series Bietti Heterotopia. He organises and curates reviews, retrospectives, and events related to literature and cinema on behalf of universities, cultural centres, and institutes in Italy, Europe, and worldwide. He is an expert in audiovisual disciplines, both theoretical and practical, and is an independent and certified trainer on behalf of the Lanterne Magiche institution (Mediateca Toscana) and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.

Tristan Priimägi is an Estonian film critic and journalist and heads the film section of a cultural weekly Sirp. He is the founder and programme director of the documentary film festival DocPoint Tallinn and a member of FIPRESCI and the European Film Academy.

Vuk Perović is the Director of Radio Montenegro. He is the artistic director, programme dramaturgist, and co-founder of the Underhill Fest – an international feature-length documentary film festival in Podgorica, Montenegro. He hosts a prime-time television show about film. He publishes film reviews and interviews with people from the film industry for various media outlets. He is a co-founder of the educational programme for female documentarians, CIRCLE Woman Doc Accelerator. He is a member of the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean FEDEORA, a member of FIPRESCI, a producer, and also lectures.

Daniel Rihák is a graduate of film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His master's short film "Výlet" (2018) won the award for best direction at the ÁČKO student film festival, the IGRIC creative award, and was shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Film Awards. He is currently preparing his debut film "Nikomu to nepoviem".

Daniela Hanusová She is a curator and project manager for the international VOD platform DAFilms.com, which focuses on documentary and experimental film. In addition, she works as the executive director of the Prague festival for augmented reality and immersive art, ART*VR, and as the coordinator of the film criticism workshop, Critics Academy, for the Locarno Festival. She occasionally writes for the Slovak slow film magazine. Pontoon. She graduated in Film Studies from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague, and is currently completing her Master's degree in Gender Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University.