Jury

Dagmar Sedláčková

producer, MasterFilm

Dagmar Sedláčková hails from Dlouhá Loučka and graduated from Gymnázium Uničov. She studied film studies at Charles University and production at FAMU. Since 2014, she has been a producer and partner at MasterFilm, focusing on auteur films across genres — from fiction through documentaries to international co-productions.

Johana Ožvold

film director, screenwriter and actress

Johana Ožvold is a film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is a doctoral student at FAMU. Her feature-length documentary essay The Sound Is Innocent had its world premiere at Switzerland's Visions du Réel in 2019.

Andrea Slováková

documentary filmmaker, educator, former FAMU dean

Andrea Slováková is a documentary filmmaker, curator, educator, and publisher. She was the first female dean in FAMU's history (2020–2024). She is closely connected to IDFF Ji.hlava, where she spent 9 years (2003–2011) in management and continues to serve as dramaturg of experimental documentaries and new formats. She directed the AMU Press (2012–2015) and founded the Nová beseda publishing house in 2015.

Barbora Kyas

film programmer, curator

Barbora Kyas graduated from Masaryk University with degrees in Aesthetics and Film and Audiovisual Culture Theory and History. Her research focuses on film and festival dramaturgy and programming, curatorship, and education in the field of children's and teenage cinema. Together with British scholar Noel Brown, she studies the phenomenon of children's film festivals. She collaborates with the production company Punk Film, representing their films at festivals, including The Devil's Quill (2018), The World According to Mucha (2020), and The Last Race (2022).

Martin Čihák

FAMU lecturer, experimental filmmaker

A former MK competitor and long-standing jury member. He studied at MFF UK and FAMU (editing department). He taught mathematics and art history at the Evangelická akademie. From 1996 he pursued postgraduate studies in film studies at FF UK, where he later lectured; between 2002 and 2007 he served as vice-dean for educational, artistic and research activities at FAMU. He currently teaches at FAMU's editing department.