Dinara Drukarova
Born in Leningrad. Drukarova graduated from faculty of humanities of Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University. She works and lives in France and Russia. She debuted in cinema in "Zamri-umri-voskresni!" ("Freeze Die Come to Life", 1989) by V. Kanevsky (this film has won "Golden Camera" award at Cannes, as well as award...
Chandran Rutnam
Educated in Sri Lanka and Los Angeles, USA. He has had numerous jobs in the film industry and has worked with the worlds prestigious filmmakers – David Lean, Carol Reed, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, John Boorman, Regis Wargnier and John Milius and has Line Produced / Supervised, several western films shot in Asia...
Andreas Sinanos
Born in Andravida, Greece. He studied cinema in Stavrakos school in Athens. He is currently member of European Film Academy and French Association of Cinematographers. He has worked as cinematographer in many documentary and feature films with directors Mickael Cacoyiannis, Chris Marker, Hiner Saleem, Jeanine Merapfeel...
Alla Demidova
One of the most remarkable and stylish contemporary actresses, whose works invariably arouse the interest of the audience, was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Economics department at the Moscow State University and the B.V.Schukin College of Theatre. She worked as an actress at the Taganka Theatre, playing the lead...
Jos Stelling
PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Born in 1945 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After Catholic boarding school, he experimented with filmmaking and, in the absence of a film academy, taught himself the art. Made his debut as a film director in 1974 with “Mariken van Nieumegen”. The film was selected for the official Cannes...
Vera Polozkova
The story of poet Vera Polozkova has started from her personal LiveJournal blog more then 10 years ago. Publisher of first Polozkova's book of poems "Nepoemanie" (2008; "Nepoemanie" derives from Russian words "Misunderstanding" and "Poema" combined) got acquainted with her works...
Boris Minaev
Graduated from faculty of journalism of Moscow State University in 1981. Minaev began his career of journalist in "Komsomolskaya Pravda", worked in magazines "Ogonyok", "City of women", "Story". In 1982 Minaev came to the seminar by Yakov Akim and Sergey Ivanov for young writers. By...
Ludmila Cvikova
She holds a MA from the University of Amsterdam and Comenius University in Bratislava, as well as the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management. From 1997 until 2011, she was a programmer for the IFF Rotterdam. She has served as an advisor for international festivals including Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Sarajevo, Yerevan...
Gust Van den Berghe
Born in 1985. Graduated from cinema school in 2010 with his debute film "Little Baby Jesus of Flandr". Year later he filmed "Blue Bird". Both of films have been demonstrated in Cannes. In 2012 Van den Berghe composed and staged an opera for young spectators "Queen Of The Night" based on...
