International Competition
Jean-Pierre REHM
Film Critic / former Festival Director of FIDMarseille
Jean-Pierre Rehm is an art and film critic who wrote in several collective international catalogues and books on both artists and filmmakers and participated in many art and film magazines (Les Cahiers du Cinema, Cinema, Trafic, etc.). He taught in many art schools in France, and then joined the French Ministry of Culture before being appointed head of FIDMarseille, which he ran for 20 years. He acted a couple of times in Des Pallieres’s and Miguel Gomes’ films. He now writes for Art Press.
Dominique CABRERA
Director
A graduate of IDHEC, Dominique Cabrera has directed Chronicle of an Ordinary Banlieue and Staying There, two unanimously acclaimed documentaries. With Demain and Encore Demain, 1995, she began a series of autobiographical films which would continue until A Mensch and Hi Mister Comolli, 2023. She turned to fiction, inspired by her documentaries, with freedom of form, with L'Autre Cote de la Mer, Le Lait de la Tendresse Humaine, Folle Embellie and Corniche Kennedy. She has taught at Harvard.
KIM Kyungman
Director
Recently, he is making independent documentary films because he thinks that the problem of historical awareness is a problem of the present and the future in Korea. He debuted in 2002 with his film Long Live His Majesty. His feature films include An Escalator in World Order (2011), People Passing By (2014), and Until the Stones Speak (2022), which is the story of Jeju 4.3 female prisoners.
Frontier Competition
John GIANVITO
Director / Professor at Emerson College
John Gianvito is a filmmaker, teacher, and curator, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Retrospectives of his work have been presented at the VIENNALE Film Festival, Cinema du Reel, and Seoul Independent Documentary Festival, among others. Gianvito is the editor of the book Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews(University Press of Mississippi) and served for five years as curator of the Harvard Film Archive.
JUNG Jaehoon
Director
Born in Seoul, Korea. He has made non-fiction/fiction films with cinematic genre and sense; Hosu-gil (2009), Hurrahh! (2011), Tenderly (2013), Turbulence at Dodoli Hill (2017), and Trans-Continental-Railway (2021). Those films have been invited to Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, Cinema Digital Seoul(CinDi), Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul(Exis), Seoul Independent Film Festival, and more.
Anna PETRUS
Artistic Director of DocsBarcelona International Film Festival
Anna Petrus is a filmmaker, film critic, cultural researcher, professor and currently Artistic Director of DocsBarcelona International Film Festival. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication by Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). She has directed multiple films, including video art, fiction, and documentary, which have touring festivals such as Cannes Film Festival, Festival des films du monde de Montreal, Sitges Film Festival or Gijon International Film Festival, among many others. She has worked as a film critic in several and relevant film magazines and newspapers in Spain (such as Dirigido por, Cahiers du Cinema -Spain, and La Vanguardia). She is currently a contributor to the newspaper Ara, where she writes about cinema, audiovisual and feminism; and she is also part of the Board of Directors of Dones Visuals (Visual Women), the association of women filmmakers in Catalonia.
Korean Competition
Hubert SABINO-BRUNETTE
Artistic Co-Director of Montreal International Documentary Festival
Hubert Sabino-Brunette is the artistic co-director of the RIDM - Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal. He’s also a programmer for the openair documentary film festival Cinema sous les etoiles and Tenk, an online platform for creative documentary cinema. He completed his PhD at the Universite de Montreal, where he also taught. Fascinated about documentary films in its multiple expressions, he tries to share his passion by getting involved in programming and jury committees, and by teaching documentary history at the Ecole des Motiers du Cinoma et de la Vidoo at the Cogep de Riviere-du-Loup.
KIM Jinyeoul
Director
In 1998, Kim Jin Yeoul began producing documentary films with Handicapped Woman Kim Jin-ok′s Marriage Story (1999), which recorded the marriage of a disabled woman. Later, she won New Documentarist Award at the Seoul International Documentary Video & Film Festival with her private documentary Land, to Make Rice (2000). She directed several documentaries including Forgotten Warriors (2004), the story of Park Soonja, a female North Korean partisan during the Korean War, Jin-ok Goes to School (2007), the sequel of Handicapped Woman Kim Jin-ok′s Marriage Story, and Cruel State (2015), which recorded the truth commission activities of the bereaved families of the Sewol Ferry Disaster. Kim Jong-boon of Wangshimni (2021) is a story about Kim Jong-boon who lives as a street vendor for 50 years.
Ruggero CALICH
Member of Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique
Since the 80’s Ruggero Calich collaborated with the Istanbul Film Festival organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts as a jury translator, guest guide and moderator. Later on contributed as a catalogue writer to the same festival for which he is actually a documentary advisor. He was co-curator for the two editions of the documentary screenings in art.mov minifest organized by Trieste Contemporanea art gallery in Trieste. He is also an advisor for the Human Rights Documentary Film Days organized in the city of izmir by the Foundation for Human Rights in Turkey. He is a freelance film critic since 2012, generally focusing on documentaries from all around the world. His reviews, signed with various pen names, have been published in many internet sites, newspapers and magazines in Turkey; mostly they are dealing with human rights. He is a member of SiYAD, the Association of Cinema Writers of Turkey.
Special prize
SEOL Suan
Director
Seol Suan got a master’s degree in Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has been making nonfiction works both for cinemas and galleries. Her works include the shorts, Complicated Order, Kungfu Tea and The Uncomfortable, and the feature-length documentary Time of Seeds, which won the Grand Prize at the 14th DMZ Docs. As a filmmaker and researcher, she has worked as a programmer of several international film festivals including EBS International Documentary Festival, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, and Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival.
NA Wonjeong
Film Journalist of JoongAng Ilbo
After writing for film magazines such as Screen, Movie Week, Max Movie Magazine and Magazine M, Na is a film journalist for the Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo. She appeared as a movie corner panelist, including JTBC morning news and KBS radio programs and ran a podcast Sister Actor that sheds light on female actors. She is what one may call “a successful geek” as it’s her job and her hobby to peer closely into the ins and outs of films.
HAN Changwook
Film Critic
Han Changwook studied cinematography and film studies, began his critique activities by winning the grand prize in the 2017 Busan Film Critics Association's film criticism contest. He is trying to revitalize film criticism, writing for various publications, and creates small independent magazines such as Beott and Criticsletter.