Main Jury
Srdjan Karanović
Jury chair
Srdjan Karanović was born in 1945 in Belgrade, Serbia. His studies took him to Prague, where he earned an MA from FAMU in 1970. In addition to over 70 documentaries, his work includes the fiction films “Social Game”(Društvena igra, 1972), “Look At Me, Unfaithful Woman”(1974; Critic‘s Choice: one of 10 best TV films ever made in former Yugoslavia), “The Reckless Years”(1975; declared the best TV series ever made in former Yugoslavia), “Fragrance Of Wild Flowers”(1978; FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes IFF), “Petria‘s Wreath”(1980; best Yugoslav film of the year), “Something In-Between”(1983; Grand Prize at Valencia), “Hard To Swallow”(1985), “A Film With No Name”(1988, Grand Prize at Istanbul), and “Virgina”(1991; Golden Palm at Valencia, European Film Award for best supporting actress). His films have also been shown at all the world’s major international film festivals. Karanović has written or co-written the screenplays to all of his films. The director has taught film direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, New York University, Brooklyn College, Wesleyan University and Boston University.
Ronald Bergan
Ronald Bergan (PhD Eng. Lit.) was born in South Africa and educated in England, the USA and France. During a number of years in France, he lectured on literature, theatre and film at the Sorbonne, the British Institute and the University of Lille. He has organised various seasons at the National Film Theatre (e.g. Sergei Eisenstein, Dustin Hoffman, Jean Renoir, Katharine Hepburn) in London, and has given talks there. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian. He has read scripts for the European Screen Fund and been consultant and writer on a number of TV documentaries (e.g. Jean Renoir - BBC Omnibus). He is a former Vice-President of FIPRESCI, for which he has helmed juries at numerous film festivals. He is president of Fedeora, a new federation of European and Mediterranean film critics. He has chaired and participated in many symposia on cinema all over the world. Dr Bergan has held the Davidson Chair of Humanities at Florida Interna- tional University in Miami, where he taught film history and theory, and has published roughly twenty books.
Peter Hames
Peter Hames is Honorary Research Associate and former subject leader in Film and Media Studies at Staffordshire University and a programme advisor to the London Film Festival. His books include “The Czechoslovak New Wave” (2nd edition, Wallflower Press, 2005) and “Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition” (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and as editor, “The Cinema of Central Europe” (Wallflower Press, 2004) and “The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer: Dark Alchemy” (Wallflower Press, 2008). He contributed to “Marketa Lazarová: Studie a dokumenty”, edited by Petr Gajdošík (Casablanca Publishers, Prague, 2009) and recently co-edited “Cinemas in Transition” (with Catherine Portuges, Temple University Press, 2012), a study of Central and Eastern European cinemas since 1989. His articles have appeared in Sight and Sound, Vertigo, Studies in Eastern European Cine- ma, KinoKultura and Kinoeye. Hames has previously served on juries at Karlovy Vary, Bratislava, Plzeň, Sochi and Ivanovo.
Martin Repka
Martin Repka was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1975. He is a graduate of the VŠMU Film & Television Academy in Brati- slava. He is the author and director of several internationally successful and award-winning short films such as “Swim- ming“ (Schwimmen), “The Last Supper“ and “The Thieves“. His feature debut “Return of the Storks“ was the Slovak national candidate for the 80th Academy Awards. Beside his artistic work, he has had a successful career as a contract director for television and advertising, as well as producer, production manager, script editor and lecturer. Currently he is devel- oping feature film script and the short film “Tiger Fight“.
Margarethe Tiesel
An Austrian actress born in Vienna, Margarethe Tiesel began her theatrical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria (graduating in 1983), going on to perform across Germa- ny, including Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Stuttgart, the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus, the Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg and Kampnagel (Hamburg). In Austria she has performed at Theater Drachengasse (Vienna), Theater in der Josefstadt (Vienna) and the Schauspielhaus in Graz, where she also lives. She has appeared in 48 feature and television films and television series such as “Nordrand” (1999, d. Barba- ra Albert) and “Trautmann” (2000–2008). Tiesel’s first leading cinematic role was that of Teresa in the first part of Ulrich Seidl’s new PARADISE Trilogy, “PARADISE: Love”, which was internationally premiered at the 2012 Cannes IFF.