Selectors and Jurys 14. PFF

Selectors

KIRIL TRAJCEV [ОSF]

KIRIL TRAJCEV [ОSF]

DEJAN ZDRAVKOV [ОSS]

DEJAN ZDRAVKOV [ОSS]

IVANA MIRCHEVSKA [FE]

IVANA MIRCHEVSKA [FE]

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    KIRIL TRAJCEV [ОSF]

    KIRIL TRAJCEV [ОSF]

    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.
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    DEJAN ZDRAVKOV [ОSS]

    DEJAN ZDRAVKOV [ОSS]

    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.
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    IVANA MIRCHEVSKA [FE]

    IVANA MIRCHEVSKA [FE]

    IVANA MIRCHEVSKA is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and cultural worker. Working through moving images, text, sound, and installation, he explores the intersection between visualization technologies and the spatial configuration of the gaze and the body. Mirchevska graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts with a degree in painting and received a master's degree from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy. She is the author of several exhibitions, installations, and art projects, and her projects have been presented in various local and international contexts. Since 2024, he has been part of the Philosophical Film Festival as a selector of video essays.

 

Jurys

SLAVICA SRBINOVSKA

SLAVICA SRBINOVSKA

IVAN MILENKOVIC

IVAN MILENKOVIC

JANE SPASIC

JANE SPASIC

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    SLAVICA SRBINOVSKA

    SLAVICA SRBINOVSKA

    SLAVICA SRBINOVSKA is a professor at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje, where she obtained her Phd in 1998 on the topic "Types of focalization in the novel." In her research and teaching activities, he deals with various aspects of the theory and methodology of literature, as well as the relationship between the arts (literature, film, photography), culture, and the media. She is the author of a large number of scientific and professional works in these areas, as well as the monographic publications "The Moving Observer in the Novel" (2000), "Through the Prism of the Other" (2003), "Visual Strategies" (2008), "Literature, Film and Popular Culture" (2011), "Literature and the Politics of Representation" (2014), "Encounter of Cultures" (2022), and "Ethics, Intermediality, and Culture" (2024). He appears also as a co-editor of anthologies and other types of reference works ("Challenges of comparative literature in the XXI century", "Feminism and gender: a lexicon"), and as a translator of significant literary works (Dubravka Ugrešić, "There is no one at home") and theoretical realizations (Gerald Prince, "Dictionary of Narratology"; Mike Ball, "Color Screen", etc.).
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    IVAN MILENKOVIC

    IVAN MILENKOVIC

    IVAN MILENKOVIC is a philosopher by education, a translator by vocation, and a and a critic by temperament. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Belgrade and obtained his Phd at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade with a thesis on the concept of “sovereignty." He deals with contemporary politics and contemporary French philosophy. He has published the books “Philosophical Fragments" (2011), “Praise of Discord: Machiavelli vs. Machiavellianism" (2018), and “Voice and Letter: Amir Brka's Dialectics of Darkness" (2023). In domestic, regional, and international periodicals, he has published more than 40 scientific papers, twenty reviews, and about 250 reviews, presentations, and reviews. Alone or in collaboration with other colleagues, he has prepared five collections of texts. He has translated 12 studies from French (among others, works by Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière, Michel Foucault, etc.). He has given numerous lectures in Serbia, in the region, and in France. Until 2021, Milenkovic will be the editor of the philosophical library of the Phaedon publishing house. He is a member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. He works on the Third Program of Radio Belgrade.
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    JANE SPASIC

    JANE SPASIC

    JANE SPASIC is a Macedonian film and theater director who has been creatively particularly fruitful in the last few years. His latest short film "Names" (2023) had its European premiere at the renowned CINEMED festival in Montpellier, France. The previous films "Life" and "Scenario" have participated in several festivals, and thanks to the themes covered and the expressiveness of the form, they have already secured a specific place in contemporary Macedonian cinema. He completed his formal education at the master's degree in film direction at the FAMU Academy in Prague, as well as at the theater direction at FDU, Skopje (undergraduate and master's degree). In addition to films, he is the author and director of several full-length plays ("How to Divide the Cat", "The Master of Memories", etc.) in which he also experiments with dramaturgical and directorial expression and form. Years of experience and practice in various narrative media sharpen his analytical skills in all segments of film and other storytelling arts.