Juries

Artistic director of Porto/Post/Doc since its foundation in 2014. Degree in visual arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Co-founder, director and programmer of Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival since 1993. Founder of Agência da Curta-Metragem and Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery. Co-head of the film and audio-visual programme at Porto 2001 – European Capital of Culture.

Jonathan Ali is a London-based film curator. He began his career at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, and then became director of programming for Third Horizon Film Festival. He is a programme advisor for Open City Documentary Festival and Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme, and previously was a consultant at Sheffield Doc/Fest. He is a programmer for the International Documentary Association’s industry conference, Getting Real.

Born in Luanda in 1977. Writes prose, poetry and film scripts. Won the Youth Jabuti Award (Brazil, 2010), the José Saramago Award (Portugal, 2013) and the World Literature Award (France, 21016) for Os Transparentes. Has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Serbian and Swedish. Occasionally teaches creative writing. Co-directed the documentary film Oxalá cresçam Pitangas (2006) and the short film Vou mudar a Cozinha (2022).

She was born in Vienna. In 1978, she (co-)founded the distribution company filmladen, in which she was active for 7 years. Since 1985, she works as a writer and filmmaker. Among her films are Jenseits des Krieges, Die Geträumten and Waldheims Walzer. In 2019, Ruth conceived the multimedia installation Joyful Joyce for the Salzburg Festival. Her film MUTZENBACHER premiered at the Berlin Festival (Encounters) 2022 and won the award for best film.

Acting training course from the Cascais Professional Theatre School. Worked with Teatro da Cornucópia on a regular basis since 1996, featuring in dozens of casts, almost always directed by Luís Miguel Cintra. Performed in several short and feature-length films by Raquel Freire, Lorenzo Bianchini, Inês Oliveira, Manuel Mozos, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, among others. Directed Ilusão, which won the Audience Award at Doclisboa in 2014.

Trained as a political scientist, his work probes a reality shaped by the systems of representation that structure contemporary societies: political, judicial, economic and informational constructs. His feature films include: Un film dramatique (2019), Also Known as Jihadi (2017), Letters to Max (2014), The Ugly One (2013) and The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011).

Curator and programme coordinator at Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife. Former programmer at Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival and forumdoc.bh. Curator of L.A. Rebellion and Brasil Distópico, among others. Developed the web-based exhibition CUIR – Filme e Experimento – América Latina (cuirfil.me) and the platform fuga (fuga.hotglue.me). Part of the FENDA team and film programme coordinator at Cineteatro do Parque (Recife).

Musician, composer and artist. Studies graphic design and visual communication. In 1998, records her first album, Phados. In 2010, Troubadour, a journey in seven acts, and in 2017, the album Archivo Pittoresco, a record that is a musical sequence shot. Does solo concerts and performances, and sporadically collaborates and elaborates with musicians, visual artists and performers in internationally. Lives and works in Lisbon.

Has extensive experience of festival production and co-founded Iceland Documentary Film Festival (IceDocs) in 2019. Helmed the festival’s fourth edition this summer, aside from being part of the programming committee. IceDocs is Iceland’s first and only film festival dedicated solely to international creative documentaries, and it aims at bringing quality documentaries to the local market and being a creative hub for filmmakers from around the world.

João Lameira (born in 1980) co-founded the film site À pala de Walsh. Among others, he wrote for Ler magazine and for the Público newspaper’s cultural supplement Ípsilon. He has directed more than ten short films, including O Traveling de Capô, which featured in the Portuguese Competition at Doclisboa 2021.

Worked in radio, journalism and press before becoming a filmmaker. Her first feature film, Esquirlas, has been screened at more than twenty international film festivals, having won five awards at Mar Del Plata (Argentina), the Grand Prize at Jeonju (Korea) and Best Film at L’Alternativa (Barcelona). Her work questions the traces that historical events leave in our collective and personal bodies and how cinema can talk about silent and hidden pain.

Film critic, curator and programmer. Majored in journalism and political science and is a PHD candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Zagreb. Works for Restart, an organisation focused on the production, distribution and exhibition of documentary films, and is the manager of Dokukino. Is also the director of the Subversive Film Festival and has curated numerous interdisciplinary projects combining film and critical theory.

Anthropologist and director. Doctor in African studies from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, where he is a researcher. Works on West Africa contexts, particularly Senegal, about gender, cultural values and human rights. In 2021, he premiered the documentary film Yoon at Doclisboa, which he co-directed. In 2022, he presented the collective project Linhas de Fuga at the Appleton gallery and at the Cidade PreOcupada festival.

Communication specialist working at the Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland. Responsible for cooperation with EU-OSHA (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work) and OSH promotion. Degree in library and information science from the University of Warsaw, and postgraduate studies in social communication and media, cultural studies and public relations in practice at the London School of Public Relations.

Brazilian journalist. Vowel of the Foreign Press Association in Portugal. Commentator in RTP’s programme Mundo sem Muros, and correspondent for TV Cultura and RFI Brasil. Writes a weekly column on international affairs at Diário do Nordeste. Was an anchor and reporter for Rede Globo’s affiliate in the city of Fortaleza. Moderates international debates, such as the Brazil Africa Forum.

Portuguese artist and researcher living and working between Maputo and Lisbon. Rather influenced by the narratives of history, her work retrieves iconographic-documental sources about episodes, forms and gestures that are part of Mozambican’s contemporary history. Her films and installations are presented internationally at Reina Sofia Museum, Ashkal Alwan, Kyiv School, New Museum, São Paulo Art Museum and the 17th Istanbul Biennial, among others.

Born in 1971, he is a documentary and fiction film director and a film producer. His work has been shown in various film festivals. He directed the first fado musical, a street opera entitled Alfama em Si. He has a bachelor of arts degree in cinema (specialising in production) from the National Theatre and Film School (Lisbon, Portugal).

With a career of more than 30 years, she worked with numerous distinguished Portuguese film directors—José Fonseca e Costa, João César Monteiro, Jorge Silva Melo, Raul Ruiz, Joaquim Leitão, Mário Barroso, Bruno de Almeida, Rita Nunes, Cristèle Alves Meira and Patrícia Sequeira, among many others—and won awards on a regular basis (Portuguese Golden Globes, SPA, etc.). She had several significant roles in films by Fernando Lopes, such as O Fio do Horizonte and Os Sorrisos do Destino.

Performed small parts in film and advertising alongside his twin brother. Works in the film industry, in the sound area, since the 1980s, participating in more than 100 films by some of the greatest Portuguese directors and in many international co-productions. He was in charge of sound in many of Fernando Lopes’ films, such as O Delfim, Lá Fora, 98 Octanas, Os Sorrisos do Destino, and the documentaries Tomai Lá do O’Neill and O Meu Amigo Mike ao Trabalho.

Lives and works in Lisbon. Has a master’s degree in architecture from the Autónoma University. Has been working at several architecture studios in the city since 2018. Currently a member of the Aboim Inglez Arquitectos team. Concurrently carries out artistic work in the fields of drawing and photography and is an art educator at the Liberarte association (Barreiro). Grandson of Fernando Lopes.

Born in Brussels, he is teaching coordinator for cinema and visual arts at Le Fresnoy (National Studio for Contemporary Arts) since September 2010. Between 2005 and 2010, he was in charge of an international program devoted to short films at the Cinémathèque française. He worked for film festivals in France and abroad, including Cinéma du Réel, Côté Court and IndieLisboa. As a film critic, he worked for Bref magazine.

A film director, her work gravitates around two central themes: Portuguese emigration and the fight for women’s rights. Her early works, which are part of what she calls the Emigration Cycle, deal with migratory fragments through observations, memories, times and archives. A feminist activist, she also develops research and artwork around cinema and women, especially in the Portuguese context.

Lives in Lisbon, where he was born in 1977. Studied film at the Porto Higher School of Arts (ESAP) and at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Works as editor, continuity person and screenwriter since 2000. Directed the short film Rei Inútil (2013) and the feature-length film Índia (2022).

Beatriz Carmo (Film and Television)
Cátia Alpedrinha (Realização)
João Osório (Sound and Music)
Jorge Vale (Photography)
Salomé Vasconcelos (Design)