Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival

Jury of the past editions

2022

Olivier Assayas

Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Film Critic

Director and screenwriter, Olivier Assayas is one of the most important authors of the french cinema post-Nouvelle Vague.

2022

Julie Dash

Film Director, Writer and Producer

For the first time present in Portugal, Dash is one of the filmmakers associated to the L.A. Rebellion movement, also known as Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers: a generation of filmmakers from the 60s to the 80s of UCLA.

2022

Joana Ribeiro

Actress

Joana Ribeiro is a young Portuguese actress best known for her roles in films.

2022

Lorenzo Vigas

Director, Screewriter and Producer

Director, screewriter and producer, Vigas was born in Venezuela and lives in Mexico City.

2022

Dana Vachon

Writer, Journalist and Screenwriter

Writer, journalist and screenwriter, Dana Vachon has written with Jim Carrey the novel Memoirs and Misinformation.

2021

Emir Kusturica

Filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and musician

Filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and musician, Emir Kusturica was born in Sarajevo, in 1954. His unique filmography is a celebration of life and cinema.

2021

J.M. Coetzee

Writer

One of the most important novelists of our time, J.M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9th, 1940.

2021

Maria Speth

Director, screenwriter and producer

Her name is frequently associated with a group of young German directors known as the Berlin School - Berliner Schule.

2021

Dolores Chaplin

Actress

Granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and great-granddaughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill, Dolores Chaplin belongs to a long lineage of artists.

2021

Ana Luísa Amaral

Poet, Writer, University Professor and Translator

Poet, writer, university professor and translator, Ana Luísa Amaral has received multiple awards throughout her career.

2020

Peter Handke

Writer and Director

Peter Handke is one of the leading figures of Austrian and German-language literature.

2020

Frédéric Bonnaud

Director of the French Cinematheque

With a background in journalism and radio broadcasting, film critic Frédéric Bonnaud is the current director of the French Cinematheque.

2020

Cecilia Bengolea

Dancer, Performer, Choreographer, Artist, Filmmaker

Cecilia Bengolea is an Argentinian multifaceted artist who translates her dance and performance practice through video, sculpture and installation.

2020

Gabriel Abrantes

Filmmaker, Visual Artist

Filmmaker and artist Gabriel Abrantes has produced and directed more than twenty award-winning short films, exhibited all over the world.

2020

Neville Wakefield

Art Curator, Writer

Neville Wakefield is an English art curator and writer who carries art into a new and creative environment outside of its conventional institutional context.

2019

Yasmine Hamdan

Singer, composer, actress

Yasmine Hamdan is a lebanese singer, composer, songwriter and actress born in 1976.

2019

Wagner Moura

Director, actor

Born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1974, Wagner Moura is a Brazilian actor, director, jornalist and musician.

2018

Walter Salles

Director

Walter Salles is a Brazilian director of both documentaries and fiction whose works deal with such themes as travel and the search for identity.

2018

Martha Argerich

Pianist

A brilliant Argentinian pianist endowed with great technical mastery and a charismatic interpretative personality, Martha Argerich is unanimously considered by her peers to be the best pianist in the world.

2018

Jonathan Littell

Writer and director

Writer and director Jonathan Littell was born in New York in 1967, growing up in the United States and France.

2018

Chrysta Bell

Singer, songwriter and actress

Chrysta Bell is an american singer, songwriter and actress, known for her long standing musical partnership with David Lynch, who produced and co-wrote her first album, entitled This Train. Recently the two acted together in Lynch's series Twin Peaks: The

2018

Stephen Kovacevich

Pianist and conductor

Stephen Kovacevich is one of the most famous pianists and maestros in the world. Born in Los Angeles, Kovacevich made his debut performance in San Francisco aged 11, and at 18 moved to England to study under the wing of Myra Hess.

2018

Jorge Queiroz

Artist

Working mostly in drawings, Queiroz starts from a post-surrealist or post-symbolist referential to create an eminently personal universe.

2017

David Cronenberg

Director

President of this year's Jury and director best known for movies that employed elements of horror and science fiction to vividly explore the disturbing intersections between technology, the human body, and subconscious desire.

2017

Ildikó Enyedi

Director

Hungarian director and screenwriter is also a filmmaking professor at the University of Budapest.

2017

Mónica Calle

Stage director and actress

One of the most challeging creators of the Portuguese theatre.

2017

Hanan al-Shaykh

Writer

A novelist, playwright and short story writer, Hanan- al-Shaykh is one of the most critically acclaimed writers of the Arab world.

2017

Momo Kodama

Pianist

Japanese pianist with a vast repertoire that extends from the Classical and Romantic periods to contemporary works.

2017

Ersi Sotiropoulos

Writer

Greek poet and novelist whose originality and contemporariness are considered to have raised the bar for contemporary Greek fiction.
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