2025 Official Feature Films Jury
Discover the Feature Films jury members for the 2025 edition’s awards.
Sepideh FARSI
Director
Iran
Born in Tehran (Iran), Sepideh Farsi moved to Paris to study mathematics, but she was soon drawn to photography and next started making short films and documentaries. Her documentary Homi Sethna, Filmmaker won several awards, followed by Harat and Tehran Without Permission, which both premiered at Locarno.
Her first two feature films, Dreams of Dust and The Gaze, were screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival. She then directed The House under the Water (FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow IFF), followed by Red Rose, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, followed by Despo, Labros, Spyridoula & Papandreou.
Her last documentary 7 Veils won the Grand Prix at the FIDMarseille (2017). Her penultimate feature film I Will Cross Tomorrow, shot in Greece and Turkey, was screened at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2019. Her first animation feature film, The Siren, was the opening film at the Berlinale 2023 and has since won a dozen awards, including the Best Animated Film Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Best Original Music Award for a Feature Film at Annecy.
Her latest film Put Your Soul on Your Hands and Walk is a documentary exploring the abyss of the war in Gaza.
Pablo Pico
Composer and Musician
France
Pablo Pico is a composer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, he has created music for numerous animation films including Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds by Benoît Chieux, Marona’s Fantastic Tale by Anca Damian, Adama by Simon Rouby, The Upside Down River by Paul Leluc, Animal Tales of Christmas Magic by Camille Alméras, Ceylan Beyoglu, Natalia Chernysheva, Haruna Kishi, Caroline Attia Larivière and Olesya Shchukina, Mum is Pouring Rain by Hugo de Faucompret.
He has won several awards for his work including the Best Music Award at the Bucheon International Animation Festival for Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, and at MONSTRA, Lisbon for Marona’s Fantastic Tale and he has won a European Animation Award (Emile Award).
He has also worked on live-action films, documentaries and podcasts, as well as collaborating with artists such as Oxmo Puccino, Isabel Sörling, Arthur H and Celia Kameni.
György RÁDULY
Director of the Film Archive at the National Film Institute Hungary
Hungary
György Ráduly studied economics with a specialisation in marketing at the ESSCA School of Management and obtained a master's degree in business management at the Sciences Po Paris.
Between 2004 and 2016, he worked in France as a producer and distributor specialising in Hungarian and Central European heritage cinema. He is a founding member of the Kino Visegrad association in Paris, he instigated the creation of the screening room at the Institut Liszt Hungarian Cultural Centre in Paris and co-organised many festivals and retrospectives (Miklós Jancsó, Márta Mészáros, István Szabó, Krzysztof Zanussi, Zoltán Fábri etc.) in collaboration with French arthouse cinemas and cinematheques.
Since 2017, György Ráduly has been Director of the Film Archive at the National Film Institute Hungary, where he leads the institution's development and modernisation project. Since 2024, as Director of the Film Preservation and Technology Division, he has also been responsible for modernising the NFI Filmlab – Budapest's digital and photochemical laboratory. Additionally, he is the founder and director of the Budapest Classics Film Marathon, an international heritage film festival. Between 2019 and 2024, he was a member of the executive committee of the Association of European Cinematheques and has been Deputy Secretary General of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) since 2019.