Jury of the past editions
2021
Emir Kusturica
Filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and musician
2021
J.M. Coetzee
Writer
2021
Maria Speth
Director, screenwriter and producer
2021
Dolores Chaplin
Actress
2021
Ana Luísa Amaral
Poet, Writer, University Professor and Translator
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.
2017
Stéphanie Argerich
Director
Daughter of pianists, Stéphanie Argerich stands out as a director, producer and photographer.
2017
Olga Roriz
Director
One of the most important choreographers and dancers in Portugal.
2016
Marthe Keller
Actress
Marthe Keller (Basel, Switzerland) is the example of an artist who knows no geographical or artistic borders.
2016
Valentina Lodovini
Actress
From Umbertide, in the Italian region of Umbria, Valentina Lodovini studied at the School of Dramatic Arts in Perugia and then moved to Rome
2016
Jerzy Skolimowski
Director
Born in the city of Lódz in Poland, director Jerzy Skolimowski has embodied versatile talents as a filmmaker, scriptwriter, poet, playwright, painter and actor