Selectors and Jurys
SELECTORS
Dejan Zdravkov
Kiril Trajchev
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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. -
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.
JURY FOR FEATURE FILMS
Elizabeta Sheleva
Luis Martin Arias
Niall Kennedy
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Elizabeta Sheleva
ELIZABETA SHELEVA is a professor at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. She is the author of 12 books and over 270 author contributions.She published a dozen critical essays in the field of film: "Macedonian film and the Balkan cultural context"; "The relationship between film and literature"; "The film in the Balkan intertext"; "The Film as Lustprinzip ("Dangerous Liaisons")"; "History, Ritual, Cinematic Poetics ("The Thessalonica Assassins"); "Frosina, figure of absence"; "The Poetics of Mannerism in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover"; "Is it always Dogville?", etc.She is currently the vice president of the Macedonian PEN Center. -
Luis Martin Arias
Luis Martin Arias is a professor at the University of Valladolid (UVa). From 1987 to 2017, he taught Film History at UVa summer courses and is currently a professor at the Master's Studies in Film, Communication, and Audiovisual Industry in collaboration with the International Film Week of Valladolid (Seminci). He was the founder of the Association "Trama y Fondo" and its vice-president from 1997 to 2018. He has published several books dedicated to film art: "The film as an aesthetic experience" (1997), "To the beginnings of cinematography" (2009), and "The film work of Clint Eastwood. Textual Analysis' (2011). He is currently developing a film analysis channel on YouTube (Análisis del cine) where, with a detailed analysis of films through philosophical methods, he prepares videos for teaching and research. -
Niall Kennedy
Niall Kennedy, PhD, is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of French, Trinity College Dublin. He has also worked as a Guest Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London. In Summer 2023, he will be a visiting scholar in the Department of Film and Television Studies, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, Türkiye. His recent publications include a chapter on the philosophical relationship between Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa, from Louvain University Press, and an essay on the fantastic in the films of Nacer Khemir, from the Philosophical Society of Macedonia. He has also translated scholarly work on Pierre Boulez for Cambridge University Press. He is presently working on a book on Deleuze and the author. He campaigns against academic precarity in Ireland and is a founding member of the Irish Precarity Network.
JURY FOR SHORT FILMS
Natasha Nedelkova
Ana Jakimska
Tom Dockal
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Natasha Nedelkova
Natasha Nedelkova (1993, Skopje) is a visual artist and researcher. Her art projects contrast the digital allure of realism and the immateriality of the digital culture. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje and a Master’s degree in Film Studies at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. In 2020, she graduated from EUR ArTeC, their artistic research program in Paris. Her first solo exhibition "Performing the Impersonal / Manifesting Speculum" was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje in 2022. She has exhibited her works in numerous galleries and festivals, including the European Nomadic Biennial Manifesta 14 in Pristina (2022), the 13th International Biennial of Young Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (2021), the Miroslav Kraljevic GMK Gallery in Zagreb (2020) among others. -
Ana Jakimska
Ana Jakimska is a Macedonian film director and screenwriter. Her debut short film, "The Children Will Come", represented Macedonia in the race for the Golden Cup at the Shanghai Film Festival, China, in 2017, and was screened at more than 50 festivals around the world. Other short films in her filmography include Bagpipes (2023) and The Blue Hour (2022). Jakimska is a graduate of the Department of Film and TV Directing at FDU-Skopje and the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology "Blazhe Koneski" . She lives and works in London. -
Tom Dockal
Tom Dockal is a worker in the arts, born and bred in tiny Luxembourg. His love of cinema, theatre and music have always gone hand in hand. Dj'ing and hosting radio shows, directing plays – from adapting Boris Vian's L'écume des jours for the stage and most recently co-directing Mendy – Das Wusical, an absurdist musical and love story between a young girl and her pet horse -, no discipline seems to be unknown to him. The self-taught Luxembourgian feeds his long cinephilia from the full-frontal-pubescent age on and started reviewing films soon after. Today he's a contributor for several Luxembourg news outlets and generally spends too much time watching films – at the cinema, at home or at festivals – when he's not riding his bike around Europe.