Jury 2025

Klaudiusz Chrostowski (PL)
Director, Screenwriter
(ULTIMA THULE, CE24)

Klaudiusz Chrostowski is an author of feature films, documentaries and music videos. He graduated from the University of the Arts London, Faculty of Film and Video, and from the Łódż Film School, Faculty of Directing. With the music video for the song "Katarakta" by Daniel Blooma, he won a Fryderyk nomination for best Polish video of the year. His feature documentary film CALL ME TONY (2017) was awarded at IDFA International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, among others. His feature debut ULTIMA THULE (2023) won the award for best micro-budget film at FPFF in Gdynia, the Perspektywa award for the most promising Polish debut of 2023 and the award for best film from Central and Eastern Europe at IFF Art Film Košice.

Anamaria Marinca (RO)
Stage and Film actress
(DOMAḰINSTVO ZA POČETNICI / HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS, CE24)

Anamaria Marinca is a Romanian stage and screen actress who played main characters in award-winning television and film productions such as SEX TRAFFIC (2005) and 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (2007). Throughout her career, she has moved effortlessly between authorial films and blockbuster studio productions. Her latest screen appearances were in GHOST IN THE SHELL (2022), NICO, 1988 (2017; Orizzonti award in Venice 2017), YOU WON’T BE ALONE (2022; premiered in Sundance in 2022), HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (2023; Queer Lion in Venice in 2023) and in TV series such as MARS, TIN STAR and TEMPLE. 

Guoda Vaitiekutė (LT)
Program coordinator
European Film Festival Scanorama

Guoda Vaitiekutė is the program coordinator of Scanorama EFF. She has been working in the film industry for nine years, gaining experience in festival organizing, film distribution, and production. Guoda is also a Lithuanian civic engagement advocate with over a decade of experience in social issues, culture, and elections.  

Cătălin Cristuțiu (RO)
Film editor
(CEA MAI FERICITĂ FATĂ DIN LUME / THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, CE18), (SOLDAŢII. POVESTE DIN FERENTARI / SOLDIERS. A STORY FROM FERENTARI, CE18)

Born in 1979 in Bucharest, Romania, Cătălin Cristuțiu studied film editing at the National Film School in Bucharest. He has worked as an editor on over 80 feature films, shorts and TV series. He has edited the entire works of Radu Jude, including the feature films AFERIM! (2015), which won the 2015 Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Director, and BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (2021), winner of the 2021 Golden Bear. Other notable editing works include CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (ENDLESS) (2007; Cristian Nemescu; 2007 Prix Un Certain Regard), IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (2010; Florin Şerban; 2010 Silver Bear) and BLUE BOY (2019) by Manuel Abramovich, which won the 2019 Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film). In recent years, he has been focusing on films which use editing as a central means of artistic expression. Cristuțiu also works as an editing advisor.

Doris Posch (SE/AT)
Researcher, Lecturer, Curator

Doris Posch is a researcher, teacher, and curator, whose particular interest is in collective processes and cooperation. She is an Assoc. Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden, as well as Deputy Manager of the Society & Sustainability | Contemporary Art and Cultural Production program and Senior Scientist for Science & Art at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg and the Mozarteum University Salzburg. From 2017 to 2023, she was a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the University of Art and Design Linz and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Co-Head of Transforming Passions – International Geomedia Conference 2025 in Karlstad, Sweden, co-founder of the curatorial collective CineCollective and, from 2019 to 2023, Artistic and Managing Co-Director of the Open Air Film Festival Kaleidoskop in Vienna.

Antonio Prata (CH)
Filmmaker, Co-Festival Director
Human Rights Film Festival Lugano

Antonio Prata was born in Zurich in 1972 and lived in Italy until adulthood. He graduated in 2007 from CISA in Lugano, directing the short film IL RESTO DI UNA STORIA, awarded at Doclisboa, Turin Film Festival, and Visions du Réel. In 2009, he directed L'INVERNO È PIÙ LUNGO, about life in a rehab center. In 2011, he made TERRADENTRO, screened in Turin (2013) and at Solothurner Filmtage (2014). In 2019, he directed MONSIEUR PIGEON, shot in Paris and presented at international festivals. Since 2002, he has been curating independent film theater programming in Italian-speaking Switzerland and, since 2016, has been the director of the Lugano Human Rights Film Festival.

Eva Fischer (AT)
Curator, Lecturer, Festival Director
Civa, Wien (media art festival)

Eva Fischer is a festival director, curator, and lecturer in the fields of Media Art, Immersive Media, and Art&Technology. She studied Art History and Cultural Management in Graz, Utrecht, and Vienna. Since 2021, she has been the director of the media art festival Vica. In 2007, she initiated sound:frame, which became known as the Viennese festival for audiovisual art and, since 2016, has been operating as a platform for immersive art and technology. She was the production manager of Diagonale film festival from 2016 to 2019 and since 2023 has been the COO of the International Screen Institute. Since 2021, she has been a teacher in the fields of Experimental Media and Immersive Art at various universities of applied sciences and universities.

Joachim Iseni (AT)
Director, Video Editor

FLEISCHWOCHEN, Crossing Europe Award – Local Artist 2019
Joachim Iseni (*1986) lives and works as a freelance director and video editor in Linz. He studied Time-based and Interactive Media Arts at the University of Art and Design Linz and Film & TV at the Bilgi University Istanbul. His work in film started with videos of the skateboard scene in Linz, after which he increasingly focused on experimental documentary cinema. His film FLEISCHWOCHEN (2018) was shown at festivals such as Diagonale or Duisburger Filmwoche and was awarded the Crossing Europe Award – Local Artist in 2019. His current project is the documentary film DER GENAUE BLICK.

Lisa Kainz (AT)
Artist, Co-Festival Director
YOUKI – International Youth Media Festival, Wels

Lisa Kainz found her feet in a video store. Gaining her first experiences in cultural event organization at YOUKI – International Youth Media Festival in Wels in 2010, she, together with Sophia Hochedlinger, has been its Festival Co-Director since 2023. In between, she had the chance to take part in various capacities in Crossing Europe, Ars Electronica Festival, and Female Tracks, among others. She also heads the project 900 Jahre Gallneukirchen and, together with a collective, runs the cultural association Sirup. She studied Plastic Conceptions and Ceramics at the University of Art and Design Linz and has more than ten years of experience as an artist.