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
Maria João Pires
Pianist
Born in Lisbon, Maria João Pires is one of the most important contemporary pianists.
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.
2019
Victoria Guerra
Actress
Victoria Guerra is an award winner Portuguese actress.
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.
2017
Bette Gordon
Director
A pioneer in American Independent Cinema.