JURY
INTERNATIONAL JURY
ANNE
PAULICEVICH
After having worked for over ten years in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands with dance and theatre companies Anne Paulicevich kicked off her movie career as screenwriter for the feature length film Tango Libre (2012) directed by Frédéric Fonteyne and an award winner at the
Mostra in Venice. In it she also acts, alongside François Damiens, Sergi Lopez and Jan Hammenecker. Filles de Joie is her second feature length movie as screenwriter and she co-directs with Frédéric Fonteyne. The cast includes Sara Forestier, Noémie Lvovsky and Annabelle Lengronne. The film had its premier at the Rotterdam Festival in January 2020, then opened in Belgium and France before hitting the festival circuit.
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KARIM
BARRAS
Karim Barras is a Franco-Swiss actor who did his studies at INSAS, graduating in 1993. After several years treading the boards in Belgium, France and Switzerland where he performed in both classic and contemporary works and won numerous acting awards, he has been active more and more on the screen. Recently he was seen on the big screen in Tueurs by J-F Hensgens and F. Troukens and on television in the second season of La Trève and in the Arte production of Au Service de la France. He also staged and composed music for a number of productions. After Le Canapé (2020) he is currently directing his second short feature with Baptiste Sornin.
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PIERRE
NISSE
Pierre Nisse is a Belgian actor. After graduating from the Conservatory he worked on a few turkeys but also worked with people who produce a singular cinema. To name just the most prominent: La Religieuse by Guillaume Nicloux, Laisser Bronzer les Cadavresby Cattet-Forzani, D’un Château l’Autre by Emmanuel Marre (Pardino d’Oro at Locarno), La Bête Entre les Murs by Cédric Bourgeois, Cruelle est la Nuit by Alan Deprey, Michel by Emmanuel Marre and Antoine Russbach, and Witz by Martine Doyen. Pierre recently co-directed his first short feature with his buddy Samy Kazi a composite film that will blow people’s minds… Not to mention a return to the screen with the series Baraki et l’Eau à la Bouche by Emmanuelle Hunyh.
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SOPHIE
MARECHAL
Born in Brussels, Sophie Maréchal has been playing the violin, performing latin dancing and acting in the theatre since the age of seven. At fifteen she made her debut on the screen. Graduating from INSAS in 2015 she gained recognition by appearing in the Belgian TV series La Trève (RTBF) by Matthieu Donck which is currently available in 40 countries including on NETFLIX. She has the leading role in the French series Guépardes.(TF1). In 2019 she won the Mejor Actriz Protagonista Award for Taro, the Spanish film by Dani Rebner. Currently she is developing Motherless Child, her first short feature as director. She will be appearing soon in Jan Bucquoy’s feature length film La Dernière Tentation des Belges, as well as in Benoit Mariage’s latest film Saint-Habib, as well as the series Engrenages on Canal+ in France.
NATIONAL JURY
MARIE-PAULINE MOLLARET
Marie-Pauline Mollaret is a Paris-based French film critic and journalist who writes for specialized magazines including l’AvantScène Cinéma and Ecran Noir of which she is the editor-in-chief. Specializing in short features and animated films she contributes to the VOD platform Bref Cinéma as well as its journal, both dedicated to the short format, as well as the program Bulles de Rêves, broadcast on Radio Libertaire which does a monthly feature on animation. She is also on the short film selection committee of the Semaine de la Critique of the Cannes Film Festivaland a member of the selection team of the Annecy Animated Film Festival.
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MORITZ
LEHR
Moritz Lehr is a curator for Interfilm Berlin, though his creative endeavours did not begin in the area of film or images, but in music. He has been playing in punk and reggae bands, has toured extensively as one half of an anti-folk duo and has played records to people for the better part of his life. Growing up in the weird mainstreamyness of the 90s, his relationship with cinema has been complicated (albeit joyful) until he began studying art, music and media and came in contact with short film which in it’s aesthetic and formal diversity as well as it’s DIY ethos reminded him immediately of what he loved about the music scenes he came from. Growing interested in questions of narrative perspectives, the contradictions of documentary approaches and essayist forms, he began working for different festivals before settling in Berlin where he is now, among other things, curator of the documentary competition.
PIERRE FRANÇOIS CRÉANCIER
Pierre-François Créancier is Casting Director for ARDA. He put the spotlight on renowned talents in the Curiosa films, Un An Une Nuit,Vers la Bataille, and Les Magnétiques, SACD award at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival this year… Also Divines by Houda Benyamina, a movie that was awarded the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d’Or in 2016, as well as the César for the Best First Film, the César for Best Female Newcomer and the César for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 2018 and 2019 he was a member of the César Revelations Committee. Currently he is working on Houda Benyamina’s latest feature length film Toutes Pour Une as well as on the first series directed by
Ruben Alves.
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NEXT GENERATION JURY
JEAN-RAYMOND GARCIA
Considered as one of the prime instigators of the development of filmmaking financial support for the French Regions, Jean-Raymond Garcia is also a writer/director/producer. In 2017 he co-directed his 4th short film Un Peu Après Minuit with Anne-Marie Puga. The film was selected by numerous festivals in France and around the world and won many awards. As part of Uproduction, Jean-Marie Garcia coproduced Meurs, monstre, Meurs by Alejandro Fadel (winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2018, and L’Etat Sauvage by David Perrault (Rotterdam 2020). In 2019 he was made member of the Cinémas du Monde council at CNC. With Anne-Marie Puga he is currently developing his first feature length genre movie Les Vulnérables produced by Farès Ladjimi at Super Nova Films. He is also in charge of development at Poetik Film.
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MARIE-SOPHIE VOLKENNER
After studying the performing arts in Berlin and in Metz, Marie-Sophie Volkenner studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles where she obtained a Master in Cultural Management in 2008. She started work at Saga Film as production assistant and then was put in charge of development and of co-productions. She moved on to the Fémis (Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris) in 2012-2013, where she produced Liv Scharbatke’s short film Lebenslänglich (San Sebastian International Film Festival 2013). In October 2015, Marie joined Annabella Nezri at Kwassa Films. There she produced the short film La Bague au Doigt by Gerlando Infuso (Magritte Award for Best Animated Short 2019) and more recently the short film La Ressource Humaine by Adriana da Fonseca (Young Jury Award All Shorts BSFF 2020).
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NIELS
PUTMAN
Niels Putman is a film critic, curator, distributor & editor-in-chief based in Antwerp. He graduated as a Master in Audiovisual Arts at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound in Brussels and as a Master in Filmstudies & Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp. He’s currently the Chief Editor of Kortfilm.be – the only magazine in Flanders dedicated to short films – and the Chief Editor, as well as a co-Founder, of the online platform for short film criticism Talking Shorts. Niels is also working as a distributor for the Belgian VOD platform and distribution company Avila. He’s also the Managing Director of Short Film Conference and the Communications Manager for Torino Short Film Market. Niels works as a freelance film journalist for several Belgian outlets and is part of the selection committee for Leuven International Short Film Festival. He’s a member of the Belgian Film Press Union and FIPRESCI.