SELECTION COMMITTEE
dr Ivana Kronja
Selektorka domaćeg takmičarskog programa
Born in Belgrade in 1970. Holds a PhD (from 2010) in filmology from the Belgrade University Faculty of Dramatic Arts. OSI/FCO Fellow at Oxford University, UK (2002-03). Professor OUD BAPUSS. Author of monographs: "Deadly Glow" (2001) and "Aesthetics of the Avant-garde and Experimental Film" (FCS, 2020). Directed the short film "The Game of Truth" (1995) and the experimental film "Rat in the Kitchen" (2004). Jury member at several international film festivals (Infant, Motovun, FAF, 25 FPS Zagreb, Donji Milanovac, LIFFE, AFV, Portorož FF, Mister Vorky (Ruma).
Saša Radojević
Selector of the national competition program
Born in Belgrade. Obtained his BA from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Wrote scripts for documentary TV series and short films. Published books on cinema, “The Myth of Frankenstein” (1991) and “Serbian Film: the Fifties” (2023), as well as the novel “Wild Shadows” (2002). He was an assistant director to Theo Angelopoulos on the set of the film “Ulysses' Gaze” (1995). He is the co-screenwriter for the feature films “Land of Truth”, “Love and Freedom” (2000), “South by Southeast” (2005), “Doctor Ray and the Devils” (2012) and “The Loop” (2015), screenwriter for the film “The State” (2013) and director and screenwriter of feature films “Kisses” (2004), “Narcissus and Echo” (2011), “Branded” (2015), “Family” (2015) and “Alexandra” (2019). The feature films he collaborated on won multiple awards in the country and abroad.
Milan Nikodijević
Selector of the national competition program
Born in Kragujevac (Serbia) in 1956. Graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Director, screenwriter and producer of documentaries: “Censored Without Censorship”, “What Do These Crazies Want?”, “Goodbye in the Next Ambush”, “Conquering Freedom”, “Removal Collector”, “Plastic Bomb”, “Mica and Stories Around Her”, “Karamazov – Pictures of the Soul”, “Peace of the End”, “Trapped Time”, “Winter of One Spring”, and documentary TV series “Picture of the Soul”, “Visitor”, “Rock and Roll Writer”, “Memento” and “Spring in Prague School”. He was the director of the Film Screenplay Festival in Vrnjačka Banja (Serbia) for many years. A full professor at the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad.
Sead Šabotić
Selector of the national competition program
Director and screenwriter. Auteur of several short films and two feature-length award-winning documentaries shown internationally. Doctoral student at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Works at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Cetinje (Montenegro) as a junior teaching assistant.
Igor M. Toholj
Selector of the international competition program
Born in 1968 in Belgrade. Obtained his BA in film and TV editing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Auteur of around 30 documentary and experimental films. Goethe Institute and Dante Alighieri University in Reggio Calabria grant recipient. Member of AFUN, UFUS and the Association DOK Serbia. Founder of the ZERO film production company, with about twenty films so far. Jury member of film festivals2. Cinema City, 51. ROSHD Teheran; 8. ARUFF, Istanbul; 7. HFF Rijeka, 24. Izmir short FF, 29. FAF. Selector of the Palić European Film Festival, 65 and 70, Martovski Festival, DOK#6 Silence is Golden. Participant: FILMY Serbia-Hungary, 2019 -22, EPK NS 2022, History-Film-History 2023 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Dragan Nikolić
Selector of the international competition program
Obtained his BA and MA in film directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. Student of scientific doctoral studies at FDA (Theory of dramatic art, media and culture). The complete auteur of “The Undertaker” (2013), “Caviar Connection” (2008) and “National Park” (2006), all premiered at IDFA. The writer of the feature film “Love Cuts” (FEST 2019), co-writer of the feature documentary " Made in Serbia“ (FEST 2005) and the short “Run Rabbit Run” (Cannes 2003, Cinéfondation award). Member of several professional associations: DokSrbija, UFUS, UFUS AFA protection, Atelier Varan Paris. Took part in the selection and juries of several festivals. Alumni of the EURODOC program, BerlinTalent Campus, IDFA Summer School, Aristoteles Workshop and Atelier Varan Paris. EURODOC, Berlin Talent Campus, IDFA Summer School, Aristoteles Workshop i Atelier Varan Paris.
Radoslav Pavković
Selector of the international competition program
Film director, screenwriter, producer and co-founder of the IndieBelgrade American Independent Film Festival. Studied film direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and the Film Academy in Łódź, Poland. Scholarship holder of the Nipkow Programm in Berlin. Director of the award-winning feature film "Lovless Zoritsa", which screened at more than 30 festivals (Thessalonica, Cottbus, Raindance, Camerimaz) and the screenwriter of the German-Austrian feature film "Balkan Traffic". For the documentary film "Giant, the Most Gigantic One", he was awarded the Golden Medal of Belgrade at the Martovski Festival. Owner of the film company Super Films Int.