Festival

Juries

International Feature Films Official Competition
International Short and Medium-Length Films Official Competition
Latin American Documentaries Official Competition
RAFMA Jury

International Feature Films Official Competition

Sacha Amaral

Sacha is a writer, director and teacher based in Argentina. His feature directorial debut El placer es mío (2024) won the International Competition Best Film Award at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI), among others. Adiós entusiasmo (2017), his first script, also received awards. He has made three short films, which were selected and awarded at numerous festivals.

Juan José Correa Valencia

Juan José Correa Valencia is a Colombian cultural manager, anthropologist, and audiovisual producer. He is also the co-founder of Antípoda Media and director of the Colombia Migrant Film Festival. He directed the documentary Desenraizar following his exile in 2020. He has coordinated events such as Cine para la VIDA at The 2024 COP16 and academic projects with Retina Latina.

Mónica Díaz Marín (Ella)

Mónica holds a master’s degree in Film by the Sorbonne Nouvelle and in Cultural Enterprise Management—which she obtained in Canada, where she currently works distributing indigenous films for Wapikoni, an organization committed to the social development of Canada and the world’ First Nations. She collaborates with various film festivals and cultural organizations.

Lucía Hellín Nistal

Lucía Hellín Nistal has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is the author of La Literatura de los desplazados (2023), a book on literature and migration. Her work focuses on the social and political analysis of cultural products—mainly film and literature—around themes such as migration, the far right, memory, and dystopia. She is active in anti-repressive, feminist, and antiracist platforms.

International Short and Medium-Length Films Official Competition

Boris Brunori

Born in Mar del Plata, Boris has been living in Buenos Aires for four years. He studied audiovisual production. He works for Mundillo—an audiovisual project—with a friend where they create entertainment content to make trans masculinities visible from a humoristic and relaxed perspective.

María Constanza Curatitoli

Curatitoli holds a PhD in Arts, a BA in Film and TV (FA,UNC), a postdoctoral fellow at CONICET and Animation lecturer at the Faculty of Arts (UNC). Producer and member of the Preselection Committee of ANIMA (Córdoba International Animation Festival). Her research focuses on animated film in the context of post-dictatorship Argentina and Chile, as well as Argentinian animation practices in relation to sustainability and the environment.

Marco Saitta

Marco Saitta (Italy, 1973) is a Sound Designer specializing in audio post-production for Film. Founder of the GianMariaVolonté School of Cinematic Arts in Rome, in 2022 he won the prestigious European Film Award for Best Sound for his work on Il Buco (The Hole) directed by Michelangelo Frammartino.

Latin American Documentaries Official Competition

Cecilia Batemarco

Cecilia Batemarco is head of the Department of Communication and Culture at the Institute for Public Policy on Human Rights of MERCOSUR (IPPDH). She has worked at the Human Rights Secretariat of Argentina, UNESCO, and the Pan American Health Organization. She teaches at the Communication Sciences department of the University of Buenos Aires.

Ignacio Llanes

Ignacio is an audiovisual mediator focused on human rights and nature. He is the producer of the FICDH and FINCA itinerancy in Mendoza. A documentarian, he also works as a manager of social impact campaigns, promoting cultural and socio-ecological transformations through film and education.

Chico Yanina Marisel

Chico Yanina Marisel lives in Juan José Castelli, Chaco. She belongs to the Qom indigenous people and is a teacher. She has participated in the audio recording project of New Testament in the Toba Qom language, the VI Congress of Languages of Multilingual and Multicultural Chaco, and the VI and VII Human Rights Meeting of Indigenous Peoples. She also did voice dubbing for the Jesus film, in the Qom language.

Tamara Noga

Tamara is a member of the social organization La Poderosa and one of the vocal cords of the media La Garganta Poderosa. From Villa 21-24, she defends Human Rights as a fundamental pillar of life and of every low-income community in the country.

RAFMA (Red Argentina de Festivales y Muestras Audiovisuales)

Nora Di Domenica

From 2003 to 2007, Nora Di Domenica organized the secondary venue of Divercine, an international film festival for children and youths, at the San Martín de los Andes city and other cities in Argentina. She is co-director and general producer of Cine a la Vista, an international film festival for teenagers in San Martín de los Andes. She runs movie discussion workshops for teenagers in Rosario and co-organizes CineClù Baigorria.

Damian Miguel

Damian Miguel is a journalist, the president of the Civil Association Cineclub El Gabinete in Rauch, and the coordinator of the International Short Film Festival of the Cuenca del Salado. He is also the founder of FILMCEN, Comisión de Locaciones de la Cuenca del Salado and has served as a jury member for different festivals in Argentina and Brazil.

Julieta Passols

Julieta Passols is a Sound and Image Designer, artist and cultural affairs director in Pehuajó and the surrounding region. With over 20 years of experience in audiovisual production and teaching, she runs the Pehuajó International Film Festival, promoting both local and national films. Through interdisciplinary projects, she contributes to the cultural and artistic development of the community.