International Jury
C.W. Winter
C.W. Winter was born in Newport Beach, California. Together with Anders Edström, he has directed two feature films, The Works and Days (Berlinale: Encounters Golden Bear for Best Film) and The Anchorage (Locarno: Filmmakers of the Present Golden Leopard for Best Film). He is currently a Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. He completed his DPhil in Art Practice & Theory at The Ruskin School of Art and Wolfson College, Oxford. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts where he studied under: Thom Andersen, James Benning, Monte Hellman, and Allan Sekula. In 2027, he will curate ideas from his forthcoming book, Underdetermined: A Partial History of Low Virtuosity, into a travelling museum show beginning at MUDAM—The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art Luxembourg. His writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, Balthazar, Screen Slate, Purple, Filo, and Too Much. He lives in Oxford, England.
Pascale Ramonda
Pascale Ramonda has over 20 years of experience in the international film industry. She began her career in Lisbon with producer Paulo Branco, and later spent a decade as Festivals Manager at Celluloid Dreams, overseeing the circulation of over 200 award-winning independent films by directors such as Takeshi Kitano, the Dardenne brothers, François Ozon, Jafar Panahi, Naomi Kawase, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In 2010, she launched her own company to promote films lacking international distribution, connecting them with festivals and non-commercial circuits worldwide. Her clients include emerging talents like Tatsunari Ota, Riar Rizaldi, and María Aparicio, as well as established filmmakers such as Andrés Di Tella, Sophie Letourneur, Salvatore Mereu, and Narimane Mari.
Pierre-Emmanuel Finzi
Pierre-Emmanuel Finzi is a film distributor and producer. He founded Filmgarten in 2016 and brings a curated selection of films to Austrian audiences. He has been active for over 25 years, not only in the film industry but also as an art and film critic, editor of the French film magazine tausend augen, and publisher.After forays into world sales (Coproduction Office) and arthouse cinema (Stadtkino), he founded and co-directed LE STUDIO Film und Bühne, a cinema and theater in Vienna, from 2019 to 2021.Since 2021, he has been responsible for acquisitions and project development at the Austrian production company Nabis Filmgroup GmbH, which premiered The Klezmer Project at Berlinale Encounters 2023 (Best First Feature) and Animalat Locarno (Best Actress). Upcoming projects include Landscape of Fear (Lukas Valenta Rinner) and the co-productions The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro) and Dracula (Radu Jude).
Galician Jury
Ana Domínguez
Visual artist and filmmaker, she is the founder and co-director of the (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña. Trained in fine arts at Escola Mestre Mateo, A Massana (Barcelona), and the University of Göttingen, she has worked as an art director and prop master in film and TV, and is an active member of the film performance collective AA++.Her first feature, Os fillos da vide, premiered at SEFF (Seville), received the MICE Award for Best Galician Film, and was screened at Alcances, Play-Doc, Cineuropa, Márgenes, and the Uruguay International Film Festival.She has served on juries at Alcances and Curtas Vila do Conde, and is secretary and co-founder of Proxecta – Galician Film Festival Network, as well as secretary of Pantalla – the Spanish Federation of Film Festival Networks. She is currently developing new film projects while co-directing the (S8).
Michael Wahrmann
Michael is a filmmaker, producer and designer. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, grew up in Israel, lived in Brazil for 15 years and is currently based in San Sebastián, Spain. He studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and at FAAP film school in São Paulo. His short films Avós (2009), Oma (2011), The Beast (2016) and his feature film Avanti Popolo (2012) were shown in many film festivals, such as Cannes, Berlinale, and Rotterdam, and received more than 60 awards over the years. As a producer, he founded Sancho Filmes in Brazil and produced feature films such as Los Territorios, by Iván Granovsky; Invisible, by Pablo Giorgelli; El Empleado y el Patrón, by Manolo Zas Nieto; and Los Delincuentes, by Rodrigo Moreno, among others. His studio, MishaWisha, specializes in poster design and trailer creation for independent cinema.
Silvia Fuentes
Film producer, she has supported projects from Sétima such as Filmei paxaros voando by Zeltia Outeriño (Special Mention at L’Alternativa and Mestre Mateo Award 2025), Habitar by Ángeles Fazáns (MICE Award), and Cuando toco un animal by Ángel Filgueira (D’A Film Festival). She is currently in postproduction on Las líneas discontinuas by Anxos Fazáns and producing A morte nos teus ollos by Guillermo de Oliveira (MIA Market 2024 Award), while developing new projects with Álvaro Gago, Javier Ferreiro, and Ángel Filgueira. She has worked as production manager on As neves by Sonia Méndez and Gosa Poder by Isaki Lacuesta, and as line producer on O Corno by Jaione Camborda, Matria (Álvaro Gago’s debut feature), and Nación by Margarita Ledo.