INTERNATIONAL JURY

Born in 1948 in Korba, Tunisia, is a Tunisian writer, poet, artist, storyteller, and filmmaker. From an early age, Khemir was fascinated by classical Arabic culture and by storytelling. Nacer Khemir has thrown bridges between shores, North and South, Occident and Orient. He has cited the One Thousand and One Nights as a particular influence, saying, “I am a child of these stories.”[1] In 1966, at the age of eighteen, he was awarded a UNESCO fellowship to study film in Paris. In 1975, he completed his first film, L’Histoire du pays du Bon Dieu (The History of God’s Country), Known for Wanderers of the Desert (1984) , The Dove’s Lost Necklace), 1991, Bab Aziz (2005) Bab’Aziz tells the story of an elderly dervish who, accompanied by his young granddaughter, encounters several mysterious strangers as he journeys to a large and joyful Sufi gathering in the desert.

Narges Abyar graduated in Persian literature; she started writing books in 1997. Up to the present, she has written more than thirty story and fiction books for children, young adults and adults. She was selected as an Oscar Academy member on 2020.                                                       Filmografi

• The Kind Dead-End (fiction 2006)
• The story of a believable story (fiction 2007)
• One day after the tenth day (documentary 2007)
• The Day of the End (Documentary 2008)
• Mother of the City (documentary 2008)
• Ulcer,( Nasur ) (fiction 2009)
• Shirpooshan, (documentary 2010)
• Objects In Mirror (2013)
• Track 143 (2014)
• Breath (2016)
• When the Moon Was Full (2019)
• Pinto (2021)

Judging Records at Film Festivals:

• Holding master class in Scotland, America and France, 2021
• Member of the Oscar Academy, 2020
• Member of the jury of the 37th Fajr National Film Festival, 2020
• Member of the jury of the 38th Fajr International Film Festival, 2019
• Member of the Jury of the 25th Listapad Film Festival in Minsk, Belarus, 2018
• Member of the jury of the 15th Pune International Film Festival in India, 2017

Igor M. Toholj was born in 1968 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia.

• Studied Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University, 1988-1992. He started his studies for the MA degree at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts- Film and TV editing department, Belgrade, in 1992. In 2000, Igor received his MA degree and the prestigious Slavko Vorkapić Award for the best student in his generation at the department.
• Igor is a documentary and experimental filmmaker, critic and programmer. Author of more than 20 experimental and documentary films.
• For his documentaries and experimental films, Igor has received awards on film festivals, National TV and stations in country and abroad, and also took part in various retrospectives of his films. Since 1994, working as the editor of the film program at the Cultural Centre Student City, New Belgrade, under the auspices of Ministry of Education and science.
• Between 2001-2003, Professor of Basics of film editing at the Academy of Arts, Camera Department, in Belgrade.
• Participated as member of various juries and programmer of film festivals in the country and abroad.
• Received Grants from Goethe Institute – Berlinale for Film experts program, during 52nd Berlin film festival, and Universita per stranieri Dante Alighieri – History of Italian cinema program, Reggio Calabria, Italy – both 2005.
• Programmer for documentary films selection of European Film Festival Palić from 2008.
• Founded independent Film production company Zero production in Belgrade, 2008.
• Publishes articles in aesthetics, criticism and film history in cinema journals Filage and online web magazine Camera Lucida, from 2012.
• 2016, becomes a member of a documentary film directors section of Academy of Film Arts of Serbia, AFUN, Participated in Board for preselection of Serbian candidate for American Film Academy award-Oscar for best film in foreign language.
• 2013-14. Member of Artistic Council & Film Commissions at Film Center of Serbia
• Co-Author / Project Coordinator of the Regional Conference: The future of European cinema regarding Gender equality-from the perspective of young filmmakers, supported by Council of Europe fund Eurimages, held in Cultural Centre Student City 2014.
• Experimental film Death of Metalosaurus has been curated for largest retrospective of Experimental film from Eastern Europe (1960-90.) presented in National Gallery of the Arts, Washington DC, USA, 2013, and Brooklyn Academy, NY 2014.

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• Member of the Board of 62^nd Belgrade International festival of short and documentary film, under Auspices of Belgrade Municipality Cultural department, 2015.
• Full member of Serbian Association of documentary Filmmakers-DOK Serbia since 2016.
• Co-founder and program director of International festival of music documentary films D’N’R – Dok’n’Ritam, Belgrade, 2016.
• Founder and Artistic director of International documentary film festival DOK, 2019.
• Selector and moderator of program Filmy, IPA project Hungary-Serbia, supported by European Commission, 2019/22.

Selected documentary /experimental films, as director:

2021. Closing time
2022. Counterphase
2023. Havana dreams
2024. Transposition
2025. Witness of one era
2026. Steady job
2027. Transfiguration
2028. The man who ate himself
2029. What is missing in this picture?
2030. Br(e)aking point
2031. Three hats for keeps
2032. Cinema Archaic: The Last Tour
2033. Bangla Borcha