2024 Off-limits Short Films Jury
Discover the Off-limits Short Films jury members for the 2024 edition’s awards.
Flóra Anna BUDA
Director & Visual Artist
Hungary
Flóra Anna Buda was born and raised in an artistic environment in the outskirts of Budapest. After her studies in fashion, her love for drawing and interest in storytelling led her to animation. Her MOME graduation film called Entropia was premiered at the 69th Berlinale, won the 33rd Teddy Award and was in competition at Annecy.
She became an intern at MIYU Productions where later she made her first professional film – in co-production with Boddah – called 27. It had its premiere at Cannes Film Festival where it won the Short Film Palme d’Or, and then the Cristal for a Short Film at Annecy Festival. Currently, she is developing new projects.
One of her main goals is to keep searching for new ways of creating diverse universes, telling honest stories and finding a way to create an artistic project out of her recent interest, with an open mind.
Vanja KALUDJERCIC
Festival Director
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
Netherlands
Vanja Kaludjercic was appointed Festival Director of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) as of February 2020. In this role, she represents the artistic voice of IFFR, championing great cinema and actively supporting independent filmmaking talent. Kaludjercic drives IFFR’s curatorial line and its industry developments to futureproof the festival.
She brings a wealth of 20 years of industry experience, both internationally and within the Dutch film landscape. She was previously the director of acquisitions at global streaming service MUBI, and worked at Les Arcs European Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and Netherlands Film Festival.
Kaludjercic has served as a jury member at Berlinale, IDFA, CPH:DOX and many more festivals around the globe.
Raphaëlle STOLZ
Director
Switzerland
Raphaëlle Stolz is a French-Swiss artist, born in Geneva in 1989. A multi-talented artist, she is an animation short film director, art director, set designer, animator and painter.
She graduated in illustration and painting from the École Émile Cohl in 2011, presenting several books and a series of paintings in her already distinctive style. She joined GOBELINS, l’école de l’image, to do animation film in 2014 with the desire to put her world in motion. She made a group of short films including Edgard, already revealing themes such as madness, mourning and human incomprehension, but with notes of absurdist humour that would continue to be predominant in her following work.
She directed her first 3-minute film, Le Salsifis du Bengale, for the Desnos programme in the En sortant de l’école collection, in which she continued to tackle themes like tyranny but always with a light-hearted touch.
In her second film Miracasas, she unleashed her colourful, lavish universe, the culmination of years of work. With an air of magical realism, the film makes us wonder about what the final journey to death may be like, in a village that feels like the end of the world. This short film was well received at festivals with over sixty selections and numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the Festival national du film d'animation de Rennes (AFCA).
She has also worked on sets for feature films including The Crossing, Ernest & Celestine, a Trip to Gibberitia, Àma Gloria, Ghost Cat Anzu, as well as doing graphic research and animation on short films and music videos including King of Sea and To Make Your Dream. She is currently preparing her first solo painting exhibition scheduled for the end of 2024. This will take viewers into a whole different world, but still dreamlike and strange. Another project is in the writing stage, with the idea of taking viewers into infinite multicoloured dreams.