Juries

Born in 1975, she graduated in Film History at La Sapienza University in Rome. She collaborated with Film Italia on national and international projects, produced shorts and a feature film and worked as a consultant for several festivals. Since 2004 she has been Head of Programming at Noir in Festival. From the very first edition she has been programmer and head of programming at Giornate degli Autori, where in 2020 she became artistic director.

María Aparicio was born in 1992 in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Filmmaker and teacher. Las Calles (2016) is her first film as director, followed by Sobre las nubes (2022) and Las cosas indefinidas (2023). These films have been screened at numerous national and international festivals and exhibitions, receiving several awards.

Thomas Hakim is a producer and co-founder of petit chaos. He has produced thirteen shorts screened at Berlinale, IFFR, Clermont, IndieLisboa, CPH:DOX… and three features: A Night of Knowing Nothing (Director’s Fortnight 2021 – Œil d’Or) and All We Imagine as Light, (Cannes 2024 – Grand Prix), both directed by Payal Kapadia, and Hair, Paper, Water… (Locarno Cineasti del Presente 2025 – Golden Leopard) by Trương Minh Quý and Nicolas Graux.