The jury will watch the films included in this year’s competitions and will award awards for the Best Film to a film chosen from the International Competition (1000 EUR, offered by Conceptual Lab by Theo Nissim), the Best Romanian Film (500 EUR, offered by ADFR — Asociatia de Dezvoltare a Filmului Romanesc), and the Best Musical (500 EUR, offered by Asociatia Tangaj Dance).

Chrysanthi Badeka (gr)

Chrysanthi Badeka is a freelance choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, editor, videodance trainer and Project Manager of mAPs – migrating Artists Project in Greece. After her B.A. in dance, she pursued her M.F.A. at Tisch School of the Arts in New York University, focusing on choreography for the camera, with scholarships from State Scholarship Foundation and NYU. Returning to Greece, for 10 consecutive years she dedicated herself to the promotion and development of the art of videodance, co-directing Athens Video Dance Project - International Dance Film Festival (2010-2020).

She is co-founder of The Mediterranean Screendance Network and MØZ PRODUCTIONS, while she has been jury member for the DAN.CIN.FEST (France) and International Contest La Danza in 1 minuto / COORPY (Italy). Alongside she has curated dance films for many conferences and other festivals such as: L'ALTERNATIVA FILM FESTIVAL (Spain), OFF EUROPA (Germany), SCREENDANCE: PRACTICE & THEORY / University of IUAV (Italy), LOIKKA FESTIVAL (Finland), FESTIVAL DE VIDEDANZA DE PALMA, TANZRAUSCHEN International Dance on Screen Festival (Germany) and many local dance festivals in Greece. As choreographer she has obtained grants for her works from the Greek Ministry of Culture, NEON foundation and Compagnia di San Paolo / "ORA! Produzioni di cultura contemporanea.

For more information about her work, please visit her website.

Farid Fairuz (ro)

Mihai Mihalcea graduated Choreography High School and UNATC, Choreography Department, Bucharest. In the 90s he was dancing for Komische Oper Berlin and collaborating with Christian Trouillas Company in Paris. Until he reinvented himself as Farid Firuz, following a performative project of fictionalizing his own biography, Mihai Mihalcea had an essential role in several initiatives that lead to the international recognition of Romanian contemporary dance and the founding of several structures and institutions that became milestones of the scene: Marginalii Group, Inter/National Center for Contemporary Dance, Multi Art Dans Center and The National centre for Dance in Bucharest (CNDB), acting as the director of the last institution between 2006-2013.

For his activity within CNDB he was nominated for Paris – Europe 2006 prize by the Maison d'Europe et d'Orient Paris. In 2013 - 2014 he received a Berlin Arts Academy fellowship. In 2014 he co-curated Good Guys Only Win in Movies Festival at Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. He performed and created several works that were presented in Europe and USA. MM/FF initiated Solitude Project Association, with which he developed several projects: IndepenDans, subRahova and Caminul Cultural (together with Manuel Pelmus and Brynjar Bandlien). In the last years he collaborated and frequently performed in the works of Alexandra Pirici. In 2019 he resumed his collaboration with CNDB as head of Programs and Projects Department.

For more information about his work, please visit his website.

Patrice Nezan (fr)

Patrice Nezan has been active as a producer for the last fifteen years. His starting point was to build bridges between film directors and contemporary artists from the dance, music, visual art worlds. He believed – and still does – that confronting these different artistic grammars, would nourish creative and innovative film proposals, with the willingness of researching what’s beyond the words. This editorial line allowed him to collaborate with numerous filmmakers and artists from all over the world. With this background, he progressively moved to features in fiction, animation & documentary that have been selected in international festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Locarno, Annecy and Visions du Réel; his latest effort, Corpus Christi, was nominated for an Oscar in the Best International Feature category. He was nominated for the French TV producer prize of the PROCIREP (French producers society) in 2008 and 2011.

He is a member of Unifrance, European Film Academy and of the Académie des Césars, amongst others. Jury at FID MARSEILLE in 2007 and at the VALENCE Scriptwriters Festival in 2014 and 2018, he has also been, since 2009, an expert regarding the European program MEDIA development, speaker at the National School of Photography in ARLES, at the animation film school La Poudrière in VALENCE, at Grenoble-Alpes University, at Sciences Pô GRENOBLE, transmedia specialty and at ENS Louis Lumière. He was a member of the board of directors in 2013/2014 for the audiovisual competitivity program PRIMI in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and then for LUX-VALENCE from 2015 to 2018, a national theatre dedicated to visual and performing arts.

Festival Team

Co-Founder & Artistic Director Simona DEACONESCU | Co-Founder & Festival Director Anamaria ANTOCI | Curator Andreea NOVAC | Programmers Simona DEACONESCU Andreea NOVAC Laurentiu PARASCHIV Catalin OLARU Anamaria ANTOCI | Organising Team Laurentiu PARASCHIV Anamaria GEGER | Communication Simona RADOI Anca MACOVICIUC Dona TESCOVSCHI | Visual Identity Ioana TRUSCA | Video Editor Alex PINTICA | Financial Coordinator Monica ISTRATE | Accountant & Fiscal Adviser Florina BAICU | Translations Ligia SOARE | Subtitles Andrei HARABAGIU