Jury Duty

16 November 2017

Festival juries, with winning films, listed by most recent...


2017

CinePalium (Palo del Colle, Italy)
14 - 18 November 2017
Competition: International Features
Jury: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cecilia Ermini
Best Film: Ugly & Blind (Tom Lass)

FeKK (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
28 August - 2 September 2017
Competitions: Slovenian Shorts, ex-Yugoslavian Shorts
Jury: Jukka-Pekka Laasko, Ingrid Beerbaum
Grand Prix (Both Competitions): A Handful of Stones (Stefan Ivančić)
Best Slovenian Film: Trahere (Juš Jeraj, Atila Urbančič)
Slovenian Special Mention: Borders (Damjan Kozole)
Best Ex-Yugoslavian Film: They Just Come and Go (Boris Poljak)
Ex-Yugoslavian Special Mention: Rakijada (Nikola Ilić)

Transatlantyk (Łódź, Poland)
13 - 21 July 2017
Competition: Polish Shorts
Jury: Kinga Dębska, Eric Wojcik
Best Film: Banquet (Julia Orlik)
Second Place: The Play-Off (Tomasz Gąssowski)
Third Place: Education (Emi Buchwald)

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2016

Pančevo Film Festival (Serbia)
7 - 11 September 2016
Competition: Features
Jury: Marta Popivoda, James Lattimer, Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Zvonimir Jurić
Best Film: Eldorado XXI (Salomé Lamas)

FIDMarseille (Marseille, France)
12 - 19 July 2016
Competition: Institut Français (French selection, any length)
Jury: Francisco Ferreira, Ismaël Leamsi
Best Film: Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera (Bertrand Bonello)
Special Mention: Atlal (Djamel Kerkar)

IndieLisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
20 April - 1 May 2016
Competition: FIPRESCI (International Features)
Jury: Alexandra Zawia, Francisco Ferreira
Prize: Short Story (Ted Fendt)

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2015

Bratislava Film Festival (Slovakia)
12 - 17 November 2015
Competition: FIPRESCI (International Features)
Jury: Luca Pellegrini, Robert Pospis
Prize: Land and Shade (César Augusto Acevedo)

Drama Short Film Festival (Greece)
14 - 19 September 2015
Competition: FIPRESCI (International Shorts)
Jury: Massimo Lechi, Nikos Tsagarakis
Best Film: Ghosts (Benjamin Pfohl)

Dokufest (Prizren, Kosovo)
8 - 16 August 2015
Competition: International (Features and Shorts)
Jury: Jean-Pierre Rehm, Lois Patiño, Thomas Logoreci, Ben Fowlie
Best Feature: Machine Gun or Typewriter? (Travis Wilkerson)
Feature Special Mention: The Royal Road (Jenni Olson)
Best Short: Things (Ben Rivers)
Short Special Mention: Scrapbook (Mike Hoolboom)

Palić Film Festival (Serbia)
18 - 24 July 2015
Competition: Critics (Parallels and Encounters)
Jury: György Báron, Vladimir Džudović
Best Film: The Gulls (Ella Manzheeva)

Lecce Film Festival (Italy)
13 - 18 April 2015
Competition: FIPRESCI (Feature Competition)
Jury: Gemma Lanzo, Anna Osmólska-Metrak
Best Film: My Skinny Sister (Sanna Lenken)

FICCI (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)
11 - 17 March 2015
Competition: FIPRESCI (International Features)
Jury: Roger Koza, Ivonete Pinto
Best Film: White Out, Black In (Adirley Quierós)

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2014

Ljubljana Film Festival (Slovenia)
12 - 23 November 2014
Competition: International Features
Jury: Klemen Dvornik, Alexandra Strelková
Best Film: Goodbye Mommy (Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala)

Warsaw Film Festival (Poland)
10 - 19 October 2014
Competition: FIPRESCI (Eastern European debut)
Jury: Pamela Cohn, Hannah Margolis
Best Film: What a Wonderful World (Anatol Durbală)

Lima Independiente (Peru)
29 May - 7 June 2014
Competition: Avant-Garde
Jury: Paula Arantzazu Ruiz, Geraldine Salles, Juan Carlos Fangacio
Best Film: Inconsolable Ghost (Takashi Makino)

Bradford Film Festival (UK)
27 March - 6 April 2014
Competition: Shine Short
Jury: Toni Booth, Joe Goff, Joan Parsons, Rachael Pocock
Best Film: Cadet (Kevin Meul)

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)
14 - 23 March 2014
Competition: FIPRESCI (International and National Feature)
Jury: Annika Gustafsson, Alexey Gusev, Fritz de Jong, Frédéric Ponsard
Best International Film: At the Edge of the World (Claus Drexel)
Best Greek Film: Kalavryta - People and Shadows (Elias Giannakakis)

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2013

Curto Circuíto (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
9 - 13 December 2013
Competition: Explora Shorts
Jury: Eulàlia Iglesias, Luis E. Parés, José Manuel Sande
Best Film: The Devil (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
Special Mention: Mountain in Shadow (Lois Patiño)