4-12 April 2025

Jury

Aleksandra Božović

Jury President

Aleksandra Božović is a Producer, born in Belgrade (1979). She pursued her doctoral studies in Drama and Audiovisual Arts, at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Since 2016, she has been living and working in Montenegro. Married and a mother of a daughter. She began her professional career as the founder and director of two production companies. Over the past decade, in addition to her production work, she has held managerial positions in cultural institutions in multiple countries. Since 2021, she has served as the director of the Film Center of Montenegro. She is a member of EFAD (Association of European Film Agency Directors) since 2021 and EWA (European Women's Audiovisual Network) since 2021.

Delphine Leccas

Delphine Leccas is an art manager and curator who served as the artistic director of the International Festival of Arab Cinema in Marseille. She has curated numerous film programs, including “Who Knows What Yesterday Will Bring?” (a touring program), “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise” (Athens), “Tribute to Med Hondo” (Marseille), “In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country” (Athens and Beirut), and “Shifting Shores” at the International Film Festival Rotterdam as well as multidisciplinary events such as the Institute of Islamic Cultures (Paris), the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Thessaloniki and Ancona), the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), DEPO (Istanbul), and ZKM (Karlsruhe).Her experience extends to the production of major international events, including Home Works (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut) and documenta 14 (Athens).

György Pálfi

György Pálfi is a film director, born and living in Budapest. He graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film in 2000. Since then, he has made eight feature films (Hukkle, Taxidermia, I Am Not Your Friend, Final Cut, Freefall, His Master's Voice, Perpetuity and a newest Hen), as well as numerous short films, music videos and commercials. Although his work has been awarded at prestigious festivals (European Film Award, Karlovy Vary Best director, Cannes official selection, etc.), he is always dissatisfied and wants to make more films.

Guillaume Calop

Guillaume Calop started his career at the Annecy animation festival where his passion for cinema and for film festivals grew. He then moved to Los Angeles to participate in the launch of the web portal Animation World Network (awn.com). Back in France, he then worked for 7 years at the internet branch of CANAL+ group. In 2004, Guillaume decided to launch a personal project and sat up a DVD publishing company called Chalet Pointu, specialised in animation, short films, documentaries and other rarities, opened a small DVD shop in Paris and on the web that became one of the best address for « rare and quality films on DVD ». In 2009, together with his partner Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, they imagined a film festival in the mountains where they grew up, the ski resort of Les Arcs. In only a few years, Les Arcs Film Festival became a major marketplace and event for European cinema. Beyond cinema, Les Arcs Film Festival is a place where the team likes to explore societal subjects such as the place of women in the field of cinema, ecology, Europe… Guillaume is also the co-founder of Le Village, a company developing professional platforms for film festivals (FestiCiné) and film projects (Coprocity) and the co-founder of Le Lab Femmes de Cinéma, a think tank aiming to analyse, study and develop ideas for a better consideration of women in the cinema industry. Last but not least, he is at the origin of the Green Charter for Film Festivals.

Agni Scott

Agni Scott (née Tsangaridou) is an international stage and screen actress born in Cyprus. Her breakthrough role came as Aysel in the groundbreaking HBO drama The Hamburg Cell, the first film about the 9/11 hijackers. Her work in cinema includes the female lead in OPA! (with Matthew Modine) and in the Greek language film Akamas. She can currently be seen on Netflix in Persuasion with Dakota Johnson, as Queen Stateira in the acclaimed series Alexander – the making of a God, and starring opposite Harry Connick jr in Stelana Kliris’s Find Me Falling - the most commercially successful Cypriot film in history. Her next film Words of War, produced by Sean Penn, opens in America on the 2nd of May.

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