Jury members to be announced in July.
Baher Agbariya
Baher Agbariya is an award-winning film producer and the founder of Majdal Films. His work has been presented at leading international film festivals, such as Cannes. His productions were twice selected as official submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, representing both Palestine and Israel. His credits include The Sea, the winner of five Ophir Awards, Mediterranean Fever, which won the Best Screenplay Award in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes, as well as Omar, Personal Affairs, and Thirst.
Snezana van Houwelingen
Snezana van Houwelingen is a Serbian producer heading This and That Productions in Belgrade. Her credits include over twenty feature films and documentaries, as well as more than one hundred and twenty episodes of high-end drama series. Her work has premiered at Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto, Karlovy Vary and Rotterdam. She is a member of the European Producers Club and European Film Academy, an alumna of EAVE, ACE Producers and Producers on the Move, and an Associate Professor of Film and TV Production.
Marija Perović
Marija Perović graduated in Film and Television Direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, as the first female film director from Montenegro. Her first film, Packing the Monkeys, Again! was met with acclaim, and her film Breasts was Montenegro’s Oscar submission in 2020. She has co-produced the films Our Father by Goran Stanković, Heavens Above by Srđan Dragojević, and Cow by Pavo Marinković. Perović has directed television series for Serbian and Croatian production companies, and is a tenured professor of Film Direction at the University of Montenegro.
Igor Šeregi
Igor Šeregi is a Croatian film and television director, born on 22 August 1983. He graduated in Film Direction at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He gained broader recognition as the director of the 2016 hit ZG80 and The Wedding, a 2026 comedy that became the largest regional box-office success of all time. He directed and wrote the TV series Mrkomir, Metropolitanci, and Ko Te Šiša, and worked as assistant director on the series Crno Bijeli Svijet and Bitange i Princeze.
Aldo Iuliano
Aldo Iuliano is an Italian director. His short film Dive premiered in the Orizzonti section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival and received the Nastro d’Argento Special Award. His previous short film Penalty won the Globo d’Oro for Best Short Film and the I Love GAI Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. His films have screened and won awards at major international festivals around the world.
Damjan Kozole
Damjan Kozole is a Slovenian writer-director whose directing credits include Spare Parts, nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin IFF in 2003, Slovenian Girl, which premiered at the Toronto IFF in 2009. and Nightlife, which won the Best Director Award at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2016. He has also directed documentary features, including Pero, which premiered at the Rotterdam IFF in 2023, Ulay: Project Cancer from 2013, and Borders from 2016.
Ana Vujadinović Tomić
Ana Vujadinović Tomić graduated in Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. She debuted with the screenplay for the 2017 film Spark, which became Montenegro’s Oscar submission. She has authored the screenplays for the films Luča from 2022, Planet 7693 from 2024, and The Tower of Strength from 2024, which she co-wrote with Melina Pota. The Tower of Strength, which was also Montenegro’s Oscar submission, earned her the Best Screenplay award at the International Film Festival in Zaragoza. She has worked on television projects, series, and theatre productions. She lives in Podgorica and works at the City Theatre.
Gabriele Barrera
Gabriele Barrera is an Italian film critic and teacher from Turin, born 21 April 1973. He teaches literature at Liceo Artistico Statale “Renato Cottini” in Turin. He also taught Film Studies at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Barrera is a FIPRESCI critic since 2005 – he has served on critics’ juries at Venice 2005, Berlin 2006, Locarno 2007 as jury president, and several others. He has written more than two hundred film reviews, and publishes essays and books.
Petra Belc Krnjaić
Petra Belc Krnjaić is an international expert on the history of amateur and experimental film, as well as on feminist approaches to the history of film. She has published original articles in Croatian and international professional and academic journals, and teaches film theory and avant-garde film practices at the University of Klagenfurt and VERN University in Zagreb.
Nataliia Serebriakova
Nataliia Serebriakova is a Berlin-based Ukrainian film critic writing for Korydor, DTF Magazine, SKVOT, Cineuropa, DMovies, FilmInk, Kinas and Cargo. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Critics Union, and has served as Program Manager of the Scanorama Film Festival since 2022. She has programmed the Ukrainian Days at La Cinémathèque Française. She has been a Golden Globes’ voter from 2024 to 2026 and is a member of FIPRESCI. Serebriakova has partaken in juries at film festivals in Zurich, Palic, Miskolc, as well as at the Warsaw IFF and TIFF.
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.