Meet the Jury 2025!

Anna Serdiukow

A graduate of the Institute of Journalism and Reportage Laboratory at the University of Warsaw and Gender Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Scholarship holder at the École Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille. Member of the Polish Film Academy, the Polish Filmmakers Association, the Association of Women Filmmakers, the International Federation of Film Critics: FIPRESCI, and the Ex Anima Film Foundation. Expert at the Polish Film Institute.She publishes articles on film, translates books, consults on screenplays, and organizes cultural events. She promotes artistic, auteur Polish cinema in Poland and abroad, collaborating on an ongoing basis with Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal, among others.In 2016-2019, she was the artistic director of the Cinergia European Cinema Forum in Łódź. For the last three years, she has been the deputy director of the Koszalin Film Debut Festival Młodzi i Film, and since 2024, she has been the program director of the festival.

Co-author of the album Andrzej Wajda. The Last Romantic of Polish Cinema. Author of the translation of Yuri Meden’s collection of essays Scratches and Glitches. Observations on Preserving and Exhibiting Cinema in the Early 21st Century. In 2018, POLAŃSKI was published – a collector’s album with all of the director’s films after digital reconstruction and a biographical book about the director, edited by her. In November 2023, another collector’s edition was released: HAS – the first Polish edition of all the artist’s short and feature-length works after digital reconstruction – on Blu-ray discs – accompanied by a book of film essays edited by her.

She co-hosts the FILMOZGRANI radio program on Chillizet. Vegetarian.

Nastia Naumenko

is a director and visual artist based in Warsaw. She has released two short films that have been screened at over 40 festivals worldwide, including the Telluride Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Go Short International Short Film Festival, Kyiv ISFF, and Animator International Animated Film Festival, among others. Nastia is currently developing her third film,I’m Not Nearly Cool Yet.

Balázs Szövényi-Lux

is a film director and screenwriter. He has been making films since childhood. He graduated from Pázmány University and then Edinburgh College of Art. He was part of the selection committee at the Cinemira Children’s Film Festival. He wrote reviews for Kortárs Online magazine for over six years. His short film Katapult won the best short film award at the Chicago Children’s Film Festival. His first feature debut, The First Two, won numerous awards, e.g. at Lublin Film Festival, and ended up at HBO. He was selected for the Hungarian National Art Scholarship for a research project he is developing. He is a doctoral student at the Hungarian Film School. He is looking for the tiny vibrations of the Infinite.