The official jury 2020

November 1, 2020
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Afsaneh Salari:

Afsaneh Salari, an Iranian director, editor, producer, and co-founder of the collective Docmaniacs in Tehran, who lives and works in Paris.
She had the opportunity to realise her documentary film “The Silhouettes” as a Berlinale Talent at Doc Station in 2016 and won a special mention for best documentary film at Vision du Reel 2020. She is also a scholarship holder of the Sundance Institute, the Doha Film Institute, the IDFA Bertha Fund, the Asian Cinema Fund and the Vision Sud Est Fund.The Forbidden Strings is the first feature documentary she produced which premiered at IDFA 2019.

Through her films, Afsaneh explores human condition in societies’ peripheries within different forms and meanings.

Björn Perborg:

Björn Perborg is a Swedish contemporary artist and filmmaker, best known for his playful sculptures and animations, lined with humour and astonishment before what is taken for granted or considered normality.

The swedish artist was born in Västerås, Sweden. He currently lives and works on the island of Orust. After music studies in Örebro and Moscow, he switched to fine art and graduated from the Valand art academy in Gothenburg in 2003. Björn has also studied filmmaking at EICTV on Cuba and at Wits School of Art in Johannesburg.

Björn’s short films and video installations depart either from his own experiences, observations or from found stories. Larger solo shows include »Geschichten aus dem Koffer« at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and the retrospective »Being Björn Perborg« at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm.

Mara Tamkovich:

Mara Tamkovich, journalist, publicist, director and writer born in Minsk, Belarus. Her short films have been shown and awarded at festivals around the world (Florida, Tel Aviv, Linz, New York, Moscow, London). Laureate of “She’s Mercedes” award and is also the winner of the Best International Film and Cinematography award of the Taratsa IFF Greece and won Best Script at the LINZ ISFF 2018, as well as numerous other awards.
In her work she devotes special attention to social topics and human rights issues, but as a viewer appreciates quality genre movies as well.