Jury members to be announced in July.
Vinko Brešan
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Laetitia Dosch
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Branka Katić
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Radislav Jovanov – Gonzo
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Varja Močnik
Varja Močnik finished Film and TV directing studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has been working as a TV director for a decade, has directed several films, latest a music documentary LP film Buldožer – Pljuni istini u oči (2017). She started to write about film and later cooperate with the Slovenian Cinematheque as a film curator (2014–2022). She has been working for the International Film Festival Kino Otok – Isola Cinema since it’s beginings in different roles and has been its film programme selector for the last decade (2013–now). Since 2020 she lectures Film History at the School of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica.
Pavle Vučković
Pavle Vučković is a director and writer from Belgrade. He was twice awarded at the Cannes Film Festival for films Run Rabbit Run (2003) and Minus (2007). Run Rabbit Run is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art- New York, and was shown in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and London Tate Modern. His first feature film, Panama, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2015 in the Official Selection.
Tina Bernik
Tina Bernik (1978, Slovenia). She holds a degree in Classical Philology and Slovene Language and Literature from the University of Ljubljana. She works as a correspondent from Zagreb for the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), and as a journalist for Dnevnik, specializing in film and television. In the past, she worked as a freelance film critic and journalist for the monthly magazine Ekran, where she was also a member of the editorial board, and as a journalist for the weekly magazine Vklop.
Hana Samaržija
Hana Samaržija is a Croatian literary and film critic, writer, translator, and philosopher. Samaržija graduated Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with four Dean's Awards for academic excellence. She has been writing weekly literary, film, and culturological critiques for Jutarnji list's Magazin for three years. Samaržija focuses on narrative analyses, author portraits, comparative critiques, and promoting the visibility of independent and European cinema. She has been translating literature and non-fiction for Croatian publishing houses Fraktura, Disput, and AGM for two years.
Ana Stanić
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MARKO BIČANIĆ
Marko Bičanić (Zagreb, 1999) has been a member of the Blank_Film Incubator since 2013, where he made his first films and where he currently mentors the high school group. He has worked on various projects as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and actor. He is one of the authors of the web series Videobox. He is currently doing an MFA in feature film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
KATARINA ČUPIĆ
Katarina Čupić (Zagreb, 2001) is the winner of numerous international piano awards. She is a second-year student of Transmedia Dramaturgy at VERN' University and Music Production – Audio Engineering. She writes screenplays for films, TV series, video games and comics. She participated in the organisation of the event Tesla & Friends and is currently working on the book Dictionary of Film Jargon.
KLARA KOVAČIĆ
Klara Kovačić is currently a student of Acting and Media at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, having already graduated in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb. Although she had taken film studies courses before, she deepened her interest in film in her current study program.