Juries

Making his feature film score debut, American composer Daniel Hart started his ongoing collaboration with filmmaker David Lowery in 2013 with Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. Hart has written scores for most of Lowery’s films, including award-winning features such as A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun, The Green Knight, and the upcoming Peter Pan & Wendy. Starting out as a hired gun for bands like St. Vincent and Broken Social Scene, Hart now also writes for and performs with his own band: Dark Rooms.

Before moving to Berlin to study directing, Alexandre Koberidze studied film production in Georgia. He made his debut as a filmmaker with Let the Summer Never Come Again in 2017, winning the Grand Prix at the film festival of Marseille. Last year, his film What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? garnered universal acclaim and featured in competition at the Berlinale and Film Fest Gent.

Born in Otley, near the formerly industrial city of Bradford in Yorkshire, British director Clio Barnard has filmed all of her four features in the region, focusing on stories about the socio- economically marginalised community there. Her acclaimed films The Arbor, The Selfish Giant and Ali & Ava form a magnificent trilogy of life in northern England. The last two debuted in the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes. The Selfish Giant won the Europe Cinemas Label, and was awarded the Grand Prix for Best Film at Film Fest Gent in 2013.

Arguably Belgium’s most prolific and talented editor, Nico Leunen has worked on over 70 productions, most notably serving as the go-to editor of Felix Van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown, Beautiful Boy, Cannes Jury Prize winner Le otto montagne ...) and his partner Fien Troch (Kid, Home). His skills have led him all the way to Hollywood, editing Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut The Lost River and James Gray’s space epic Ad Astra.

Born in Guinea-Bissau and living in Berlin, multitalented artist Welket Bungué is a writer, director, producer and actor. In 2017, he co-founded
the production company KUSSA with his brother, releasing multiple award- winning shorts such as Calling Cabral, Mudança, I Am Not Pilatus and Bastien. Bungué starred in acclaimed films such as Cartas de guerra, Joaquim, Berlin Alexanderplatz (his breakthrough leading role) and Crimes of the Future. He is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie and the European Film Academy.

Last year, the soundtrack of Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s debut Clara Sola won the Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack at FFG, after the film premiered in Cannes. She is an alumna of the Berlinale Talents, TIFF Filmmaker Lab and NYFF Artist Academy. Mesén also co-wrote Entre tú y milagros, winner of the Orizzonti Award for Best Short in Venice in 2020.

Bendt Eyckermans is a Belgian painter whose figurative work is heavily influenced by Belgian cultural heritage. Throughout his compositions, Eyckermans interjects both symbolic elements and historical references, including those to the sculptural practices of his father and grandfather, who previously used the studio in which he works. Eyckermans’ work has been exhibited in S.M.A.K., M HKA (Belgium), and in galleries in New York and London.

Diana Cam Van Nguyen is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague, where she studied at FAMU. Centered on personal topics, her films have been largely autobiographical and break through the idea that animated film is just for children. Love, Dad - her third short - received a Special Mention in the International Short Film Competition at FFG2021.

Elena Lazic is a French film critic and writer based in England whose byline has appeared in numerous renowned publications such as Sight and Sound, Little White Lies, Mubi Notebook and The Guardian. In 2021 she founded Animus, an online film magazine which “was largely born out of a desire to do something about the current dire state of film criticism” and engages with the art form uncompromisingly.