Festival Juries

Matthias Luthardt

He studied film directing at the HFF Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He also completed the Masterclass for Young European Film Producers in Ludwigsburg and Paris. His debut film “Pingpong” was screened in 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival in the “Semaine de la Critique” and received several awards there, as well as at other international film festivals. The film was nominated at the European Film Awards in the category European Discovery. Luthardt has also worked on numerous documentary films. He co-directed the feature documentary “Jesus liebt Dich” (Berlinale 2008), made several contributions to the documentary episodic film series 24h (Berlin, Israel and Europe) as well as “Cinékino,” a German-French ten-part documentary about European cinema. His film “Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf,” based on the novel by Andreas Paluch and Robert Habeck, was invited to the 2009 Berlinale and screened at national and international festivals. His most recent works include the experimental short “Die Wahrheit” and the German-French cinema co-production “Luise”. Matthias Luthardt is a member of the European Film Academy.

Anila Gajevic

Anila Gajević was born in Sarajevo in 1979 where she graduated in Bosnian literature and language. As a former journalist and editor, in 2008, she founded ZONA, the first talent agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina which is today among the leading agencies in Southeastern Europe and beyond. Her agency represents some of the most prominent actors and young talents from the Balkans and Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Spain. As an agent, she has represented actors in numerous international projects such as „Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol“, „The November Man“, „Snowpiercer“, „Legends“ „Skyfall“ „The Last Christmas“, „Gomorrah“, „Game of Thrones“, „In Order of Disappearance“, „Der Pass“, „Success“, „Cold War“, „Jack Ryan“, „Munich Games“, „Before We Die“, „42 segundos“, “Everybody Loves Diamonds“...

Screen International listed her in 2016 as one of the „Future Leaders: Agents“. In her country, she received two awards „Lady Boss“ and „Woman of the Year“ for entrepreneurship. She is a member of the Association of filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Film Academy.

Victoria Leschenko

Victoria has a master degree in cultural studies (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy). She been working as a programmer for more than 10 years, including 4 last years as a program director at Docudays UA – which were quite hectic due to covid-19 and demanded both responsible and creative approaches to still keep running the festival. For example, in March 2020, Victoria developed new formats for film screenings and festival events in very tight deadlines, and together with her team moved the Docudays UA online in just a month. She has experience in programming film programs at Ukrainian film festivals (Molodist IFF, Docudays UA IHRDFF) and film organizations. In 2022, together with her fellow programmer from Docudays UA and film critic Yulia Kovalenko she established "sloїk film atelier". Its first and recent film curator project is a collaborative work with Deutsche Kinemathek – a program of Ukrainian film screenings in Germany named "Perspectives of Ukrainian Cinema".

Tibor Forizs

He started his career at the Hungarian Public Television as a feature film curator and editor. He came on board at RTL Klub as a film buyer and scheduler in 1998 and later he was appointed head of acquisitions and scheduling in Fall 2001. His career at RTL Hungary spanned a total of 23 years where he was involved in the content acquisition and programming activities of the group’s major free-to-air channel, seven additional cable channels and its newly created AVOD streaming proposition, RTL Most. He later resurfaced at Antenna Group’s CEE channel portfolio consisting of 22 pay-TV channels and two OTT services in 12 countries, serving as their regional programming director. He is currently a freelance acquisitions, programming and co-production consultant for various media and distribution companies in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe.

Triin Tramberg