Juries

Born in New York, director, screenwriter and producer Eliza Hittman studied art at the California Institute of the Arts. Her feature film debut It Felt Like Love, which she produced and for which she also wrote the screenplay, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. There, her second film, Beach Rats (2017), also premiered and won the Directing Award. Her third feature film Never Rarely Sometimes Always was presented in the Berlinale Competition in 2020 and was awarded the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018 and served as jury president at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival. Hittman is currently an associate professor of film/video at the Pratt Institute.

Andréa Picard is a Senior Film curator at the Toronto International Film Festival where she programmes retrospectives at TIFF Cinematheque and oversees the Wavelengths section dedicated to artist film and video. She is also an advisor to the Marrakech International Film Festival and was previously the artistic director of the 40th edition of the Cinéma du Réel festival at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She has curated exhibitions internationally and, as an author and critic, she has published in numerous artist monographs and repeatedly in Cinema Scope magazine, as well as in Artforum, Sight & Sound and Mousse.

Katrin Pors is a Danish producer known for bridging Latin America with Northern Europe. She is one of the founders of the production company Snowglobe and has worked as a producer, executive and co-producer on numerous projects with some of the most esteemed directors in contemporary art house cinema. Her most recent work as a producer includes The Untamed (2016) by Amat Escalante, the opening film of the 50th Directors’ Fortnight, Birds of Passage (2018) by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, Godland (2022) by Hlynur Palmason, as well as the co-productions Monos (Panorama 2019) by Alejandro Landes, The Worst Person in the World (2021) by Joachim Trier and A Chiara (2021) by Jonas Carpignano, which had their premieres at Cannes.