Jury of the past editions
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
2016
André Saraiva
Artist
André Saraiva is a visual artist of Portuguese origin who began his career in the 80’s by spreading his graffiti art through the streets of Paris.
2016
Stanislas Merhar
Actor
Stanislas Merhar is a French actor born in 1971. After studying piano for five years at l’École Normale de Musique de Paris, Stanislas Merhar began to study the art of gilding.
2016
Daniel Rosenfeld
Director
Daniel Rosenfeld (Buenos Aires) wanted to be a pianist composer, but ended up making films.
2016
LOLA PEPLOE
Director
Actress and director, Lola Peploe was born in England and studied English and French Literature at Oxford University.
2015
Sabine Azéma
Actress
Sabine Azéma, French actress, was born in Paris, in 1949.
2015
Cédric Villani
Mathematician
Cédric Villani is a renowned French mathematician, born in 1973.
2015
Itamar Golan
Pianist
Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1970, Itamar Golan is a prestigious Israelite pianist.
2015
Jessica Hausner
Writer and Director
Jessica Hausner, director and screenwriter, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1972.
2015
Andrei A. Tarkovsky
Photographer
Younger son of the director and Larissa Pavlovna, Andrei Andreievich is the chairman of the Andrei Tarkovsky International Institute
2015
Pedro Gadanho
Architect
Pedro Gadanho (1968) is an architect.
2015
Sara Driver
Director
Born in 1955, in Westfield, New Jersey, Sara Driver is an independent director.
2015
Martín Rejtman
Writer and director
Martín Rejtman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1961.
2015
Nicoletta Braschi
Actress
Nicoletta Braschi is an Italian actress, born in Cesena, in 1960.
2015
Alain Fleischer
Writer and Director
Born in 1944, in Paris, Alain Fleischer is a versatile artist.