Jury
INTERFILM Festival
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
Jury
is an Indonesian animation filmmaker and illustrator based in Berlin, Germany. An MFA Animation Direction graduate from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Germany, Ariel specialises in 2D animation, creating imaginative colourful worlds with stories about family, queer identity, self-discovery. His animated films, most recently I Am A Flower (2024), have been screened and awarded in numerous festivals such as, Encounters, Pixelatl El Festival Guadalajara, and Annecy International Animation Festival.
is an Iranian filmmaker and artist based in Berlin. Her Mother Trilogy—Mother Prays All Day Long, As If Mother Cried That Night, and Mother is a Natural Sinner (co-directed with Boris Hadžija)—premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over three consecutive years and was later screened at many other festivals. She is currently developing her debut feature, I’ll Plant My Hands in the Garden (co-directing with Boris Hadžija).
is a emergent film producer, curator and political educator from Berlin. She is currently studying film production at filmArche and social work with a focus on critical diversity and community studies at Alice Salomon University. She co-initiated and directs the Tibet Film Festival Berlin, curated films at Sinema Transtopia and produced the podcast „die mische ballert“, which sheds light on mixed race BiPoc Perspectives in Germany. In her projects, she combines creative work with political education, particularly on the topics of diversity and community.
is a Taiwanese animation director and animator based in Berlin. Chung’s artistic practice focuses on using surreal images and character performances to articulate the changing nature of emotion, modern love relationships and the queer community.
has managed several art house cinemas in Munich and Berlin for over 6 years while also curating and organizing festivals and film events focusing on Eastern European cinema. In 2018, she joined the Chinese-European producers' association Bridging the Dragon as manager for festivals and partnerships. From 2019-2021, she ran the international training program NEXT WAVE at the Berlin Film School DFFB, training young film professionals in the areas of the fields of film sales, distribution, exhibition, marketing and curation. She has been in charge of MUBI's marketing activities in Germany since 2020 and has spearheaded its theatrical distribution arm including MUBI GO since 2022. She is also a mentor of the international cinema training program of the CICAE and a jury member for the annual Cinema Program Award of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
is a Filipino-German director and producer. During her studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt, she was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to complete her Master of Arts in Media Studies and Film at the New School University in New York. She then worked as a freelance director and film producer in the advertising industry in Berlin and taught media theory and film production at the prestigious University of the Philippines. She is also the producer and showrunner of the queer talk show format “Tomorrow TV Show.” Divina worked as Executive Producer at Stinkfilms Berlin and as Head of Department for the talent incubator Stink Rising, where she produced multiple award-winning films. Since 2023, Divina continues to lead the diversity program NewMotion.
(born 1989 in Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works as a film editor and video artist in Berlin. She competed her Master's degree in Editing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf with the documentary film "THE HOMES WE CARRY" (directed by Brenda Jorde, DE 2022). The film premiered in the National Competition at the DOK Leipzig Festival 2022, achieved success at over 25 festivals, was nominated for the First Steps Award 2023 and has been included in the DEFA Film Library at UMass AMHERST. Laura has extensive experience as a film editor on numerous national and international productions in the fields of documentary, feature, and animated film, as well as serial formats for ARD, ZDF, and Arte. In addition to her artistic work, Laura is also involved as an editing tutor for "Dreh's Um," an artistic-social film workshop for German youth with a migration background, which promotes perspective shifts in the German film industry. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Federal Association of Film Editors (Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor e.V.). ‘She is actively involved in the film industry in order to contribute her perspectives and to question and change existing views.’
a writer and director hailing from Chicago and based in Berlin since 2010, is a versatile storyteller whose intimate, real, and colorful work spans documentary, theater, and TV. With an MFA in Film, Leyser brings a unique perspective to storytelling, exploring diverse topics and perspectives, particularly those related to culture, artists and the LGBTQIA+ Community. Leyser has directed and produced feature films, documentaries, docuseries, and miniseries that have received worldwide acclaim and recognition at various international festivals such as IDFA, BFI London IFF, Hot Docs, Viennale, Slamdance, Seattle IFF, and have screened on platforms including ZDF, ARTE, RTL+, and Netflix.
is an author and director who realises reports and documentaries in the public broadcasting sector. She previously studied cultural studies at Berlin's Humboldt University and received a doctorate in theatre history. She was a jury member at the Ringerike International Youth Film Festival in Norway from 2016 to 2018 and jury chairwoman from 2018 to 2019. The documentary film "Partisan - Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992 - 2017", which she co-directed, was honoured with the Berlinale Audience Award in 2018.
Boris Hadžija is a Berlin based filmmaker and musician born in SFR Yugoslavia. After his master’s degree studies in classical piano at the University of Arts in Belgrade, he studied film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His films premiered and screened at Locarno Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, Winterthur, Uppsala, PÖFF Shorts, etc. They were nominated for the German Short Film Award and aired on arte, rbb, mdr, etc. Boris Hadžija is a recipient of a scholarship awarded by DAAD.
Giulia Triolo has worked in Italy, Spain, Argentina and Brazil before moving permanently to Copenhagen, Denmark. She has studied at the European Film College, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film Studies from the University of Bologna and a Master’s Degree in Film and Media Studies from the University of Copenhagen. She has been part of the production company Snowglobe since 2016 and is at the moment developing several features, fiction and documentary alike. She is an alumna of the Young Nordic Producers' Club and ACE Nordic Focus Training Days. In 2022 she was appointed by the Danish Film Institute as one of the emerging producers participating in Rotterdam Lab and went back as an alumna in 2023.
Born 1991 in Kigali, Rwanda, Amelia Umuhire is a filmmaker and artist living in Berlin and Kigali.
In 2015 she wrote and directed the award-winning web-series “Polyglot,” in which she follows the lives of young, deracinated London- and Berlin-based Rwandese artists. Her short film “Mugabo” is an experimental short film set in Kigali. It was screened at MOCA Los Angeles, the Berlin Biennale and many more.
In 2018 Amelia Umuhire produced the Prix Europa nominated radio feature Vaterland for the German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
She was a Villa Romana Fellow in 2020 and adapted the feature into the French "Innocent". She is currently working on her first feature film and developing a series for Netflix.
