Festival Juries
Finále Plzeň 2024
International Jury for Feature Length Live Action and Animated Films
Marija Kavtaradzė
Mariam Khundadze
Heather Millard
Michael O´Connor
Stefan Arsenijević
International Jury for Documentaries
Antra Gaile
Edyta Wróblewska
Bohdan Zhuk
International Jury for TV and Internet Production
Inga Alika
Jyri Kähönen
Will Roach
International Jury for Short Student Films
Anna Germanidi
Marija Razgutė
Danijel Hočevar
Selection committee for competition films
Lenka Tyrpáková
Peter Badač
Zdeněk Blaha
Martin Horyna
Daniel Vadocký
Student Jury for Feature Length Live Action and Animated Films
Ondřej Backa
Simon Čáp
Tereza Matějková
Miroslav Mužík
Adam Turyna
Student Jury for Documentaries
Patricie Klosse
Mariana Orlová
Vojtěch Tulek
Student Jury for TV and Internet Production
Pavlína Bauerová
Michaela Hánová
Jan Tvrz
International Jury for Feature Length Live Action and Animated Films
Marija Kavtaradzė
Lithuanian film director and screenwriter. As a director, she has two internationally successful films to her credit - Summer Survivors (2018) and Slow (2023), for which she won, among others, the Best Director award at Sundance and the 2023 Best Lithuanian Film award. Slow is part of the ZOOM section at this year's Finale.
Mariam Khundadze
Georgian actress living in London. In 2021, she won the Best Actress award at the Karlovy Vary IFF for her role in Room of My Own. She will star in the upcoming Czech series at Prima TV, Surrogates, written and directed by Alice Nellis and co-directed by Jiří Havelka. Two episodes will also be screened in an exclusive preview at Finále.
Heather Millard
Producer and co-founder of Compass Films production company and the first 2D animation studio in Iceland, Animation Studio Iceland. She worked in the UK, and since 2009, she has been producing internationally acclaimed documentaries, feature and animation films in Iceland, including When the Light Breaks (Ljósbrot) by Rúnar Rúnarsson, which was the opening film of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Heather is also a member of the European Film Academy and the Icelandic Film Academy and received the Cannes Producer Network Award in 2023.
Michael O´Connor
Award-winning British costume designer. Winner of an Oscar, a BAFTA and other prestigious awards for his costumes for The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley (dir. Saul Dibb, 2008). Other films he has worked on include: The Last King of Scotland (dir. Kevin Macdonald, 2006), Jane Eyre (dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2011), Dredd (dir. Pete Travis, 2012) and The Invisible Woman (dir. Ralph Fiennes, 2013).
Stefan Arsenijević
Serbian film director and screenwriter. He achieved success with his short films, for which he has won more than 30 awards, including the Golden Bear at Berlinale and the European Film Award. In 2008, his feature debut, Love and Other Crimes, premiered at Berlinale. His second film, Strahinja, won five awards at the 2021 KVIFF, including the Crystal Globe for Best Film. Stefan Arsenijevič also works as a tutor at the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts and, since 2015, he has been the programme manager of First Films First, a training programme for South European filmmakers, which he founded.
International Jury for Documentaries
Antra Gaile
Latvian producer with over a decade of experience in the film industry. She started her career at Mistrus Media, where she produced a number of local and international titles, including Latvian Oscar nominees, To Be Continued by Ivars Seleckis, and The Mover by Davis Simanis. She became a partner in Air Productions, a studio that focuses on family films and stories with female characters both in front of and behind the camera. Antra is also a sought-after executive producer for international co-productions and a member of networks such as the EWA Network For Female Producers.
Edyta Wróblewska
Director and producer, graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Film Direction College, Camerimage Film School and Berlinale Talent Campus, currently a PhD student at the Łódź Film School. She is the author of award-winning documentaries, such as PRL de Luxe and Girl from a Reading Primer, which have screened at dozens of film festivals around the world, including Vision du Reel and Sheffield Doc. Edyta is also a tutor in film directing, an expert of the Polish Film Institute and a member of the Polish Film Academy.
Bohdan Zhuk
Programmer for the Kyiv International Film Festival, Molodist, and director of the Sunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ film festival. He studied linguistics and is also a professional translator, journalist and radio host. He organizes Molodist's international activities dedicated to Ukrainian films at other European festivals.
International Jury for TV and Internet Production
Inga Alika
Experienced media manager and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications industry. She is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which is involved in the organisation of the Emmy Awards.
Jyri Kähönen
Film and TV series director from Finland. He has worked on projects for video platforms such as Netflix (Bordertown, 2018) and HBO Cinemax (Trackers, 2019).
Will Roach
Will Roach is currently working as a Development Script Editor for Big Light Productions led by screenwriter and EP Frank Spotnitz. He began his career in television in Scotland and Bristol, before moving to the drama department at the BBC. He also has an interest in theatre, having worked for the Fringe and other theatre festivals in Edinburgh, Prague and Australia.
International Jury for Short Student Films
Anna Germanidi
Film professional with international experience in production, distribution, programming and events. She worked as Festival Director and Programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival, as well as other prestigious festivals, such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the BFI London Film Festival. She is currently the Director of Exhibition & Programming at UK & IE distributor Modern Films, leading the theatrical and digital release strategies of their titles.
Marija Razgutė
Lithuanian film producer, whose production company M-Films produced the internationally acclaimed films Slow, Summer Survivors, Nova Lituania, and Runner, which the Finále audience had the opportunity to see last year. She is a member of the ACE Producers Network and a European Film Academy Board member for 2024-2025.
Danijel Hočevar
Slovenian film producer and CEO of Vertigo, a Ljubljana-based production company with extensive experience in international co-productions. In 2001, he was listed by Variety magazine as one of the ten producers to watch. He is a member of the European Film Academy, a former president of the Association of Slovenian Film Producers and is active as a tutor in several European training programmes, such as MIDPOINT, EAVE and the Nipkow Program.