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KIRIL TRAJCHEV

DEJAN ZDRAVKOV
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KIRIL TRAJCHEV
KIRIL TRAJCEV is a professor at the International Slavic University "G.R. Derzhavin." For several years, he taught at the Film Academy at the University "Goce Delchev" in Stip. He has participated in many alternative and non-professional film and theater festivals. He also participated in the realization of short films and theater projects. He has published articles in several magazines and collections. He also took part in many scientific gatherings and conferences. He organized several workshops for philosophy and film. -
DEJAN ZDRAVKOV
DEJAN ZDRAVKOV, born in Veles, graduated and obtained his master's degree at the Institute of Philosophy at the University "St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje," where he also did his PhD degree in philosophy in 2015. Under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Ferid Muhic, the dissertation entitled "Existence and Intuition: Bergson and Heidegger's understanding of Man and Time" was published in 2019 as a book by "Az-Buki". His focus and interest lies in the disciplines of Philosophical Anthropology and Aesthetics. In his free time, he loves painting.
Jury for Feature Films

SERDAR ÖZTÜRK

KICA KOLBE

TONI GLAMCHEVSKI
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SERDAR ÖZTÜRK
Prof. Serdar Öztürk is an academic at the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Faculty of Communication, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University (AHBV) in Ankara, Turkey. He is the publisher of The Journal of SineFilozofi, an academic peer-reviewed journal published since 2016. Prof. Öztürk is also the chairman of the Association of Cinema and Philosophy in Turkey. The focus of Öztürk’s research is mostly interdisciplinary. He has published extensively on cultural history of Turkey, and sociology and philosophy of cinema. His research papers have appeared both in national and international journals. At the moment Prof. Öztürk has seven published books in his name, covering the above mentioned themes. His major book publications include "Cinema, Reception and Politics during the Early Republican Period" (Ankara: Elips, 2004), "Dialectics of Communication in the Ottoman Period" (Ankara: Phoneix, 2010) and "The Sources of Sociology of Communication in Turkey" (Ankara, Siyasal: 2011). Another book, Space and Power: The Politics of Spaces of Communication with Movies (Ankara: Phoenix: 2012) mainly on cinema sociology. His other book publications, "Cinephilosophy: The Journey to Kurosawa's Dreams" (Ankara: Heretic 2016) and "Introduction to Cinema Philosophy" (Ankara: Ütopya, 2018), explore connections of films with philosophy. Öztürk’s also has recently edited a book titled "Archeology of Struggle in Ken Loach Films" (Ankara: Utopya, 2021). Öztürk’s interest in sociology of film was triggered by his doctoral dissertation titled "Cafes and Power in the Turkish Republic (1930-1945)". (İstanbul: Kırmızı, 2005). -
KICA KOLBE
KICA KOLBE is a philosopher and writer. She studied philosophy at the University of Skopje (1970-1974). She received her master's degree in 1982. in Belgrade on the aesthetics of Theodor Adorno, and received her doctorate in 1985 in Skopje on German Aesthetics from the 18th century, published under the title "The Principle of Longing" (1989). She started her academic career at the Faculty of Philosophy from 1976-1986 as assistant professor of aesthetics in the Aesthetic Laboratory. She has published film, art, literary criticism, and philosophical essays in "Razgledi", "Stremez", "Kinotechki Mesechnik", "Utrinski Vesnik", "Filozofija", "Lettre..." and others. She published the novels "Aegeans" (1999), "The Snow in Casablanca" (2006, "Novel of the Year"), "The Gavrilov Women" (2008, Macedonian nomination for Balkanika), "Land of Refugees" (2016), and "The Knight and the Byzantine Woman"(2020). -
TONI GLAMCHEVSKI
TONI GLAMCEVSKI is a journalist, translator-interpreter, and president of the International FIlm Festival Nancy in France. He has been living in France since 1990 and works as a correspondent from France for MRT, MIA, and Focus, and for many years he has been also a correspondent for Deutsche Welle and Utrinski Vesnik. As part of his journalistic activities, he regularly reports from the European institutions, specializing in European matters and human rights. He also taught at the Department of Macedonian Language at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO) in Paris and held practical exercises with students at the European Audiovisual Institute in Nancy (IECA). His passion for film and sensitivity on the questions of human rights led him in 2008 to become a programme advisor and programmer at the Nancy International Film Festival. Since 2013, he has been the president and general delegate of the Nancy IFF.
Jury for Short Films

VASKO MAGLESHOV

TAMARA TASEVSKA

GJORGJI JANEVSKI
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VASKO MAGLESHOV
VASKO MAGLESHOV has graduated in the firled of world literature, and received his master's degree at the Institute of Sociology in Skopje. He has been working as a journalist in various media for 14 years. In 2014, he received the Film Critics Award at the Cinedays 2014 European Film Festival, as well as the International PEN Award for Best Essay. He was a member of the jury in the program of the International Film Festival "Asterfest" in 2012 and the jury for film criticism at "Cinedays" in 2015. Since 2016, he has been publishing film reviews for the specialized film magazine "Film Plus" and the weekly "Film Press". He has reported from several domestic film festivals: "Manaki," "Cinedays," "Makedox"... He has held film writing workshops at the Youth Cultural Center and through a programme of Europe House. He is a member of the Association for Film and Film Education "Kratzeri". -
TAMARA TASEVSKA
TAMARA TASEVSKA researches, writes, and teaches on film-philosophy, postcolonial and feminist cinema, intermediality, and eco-criticism in film. She received her PhD in French and Francophone Studies and Critical Theory from Northwestern University, USA (2021) and has published in peer-reviewed journals on filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Claire Denis, and François Ozon, and philosopher Gilles Deleuze. She is currently an affiliated faculty member at Baruch College, CUNY and is an active supporter of avant-garde video art through the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York City. -
GJORGJI JANEVSKI
Gjorgji Janevski is a freelance media and cultural worker from Skopje. After his film studies in Italy, he became a permanent member of the independent community radio Kanal 103, where since 2005 he has been producing live concert sessions with Macedonian and foreign artists. He works in the field of audio-visual and radio documentaries, but also as a film critic, music promoter, curator, publisher and cultural manager on the local independent scene. He is co-founder of Cooperative 5060 and the Art Residency “Papradishte“. He is currently working on the establishment of the Cinema Club "Sidovski"