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OTHER JURIES BFFB 39

As part of its particular focus on promoting film education at all levels, fostering the growth of an ever-wider and more informed audience, and its specific commitment to the cultural and environmental preservation of the local area, the BFFB has established four complementary and diverse juries tasked with awarding a range of transversal prizes.

Jury of the ZeLIG Film School in Bolzano

The prize is awarded by a panel of seven students from ZeLIG – School of Documentary, supported by Sara Fgaier as jury tutor, to a work in which elements, practices and directorial techniques associated with documentary production methods are recognisable. Works that may appear to be purely fictional will also be considered, alongside others more closely linked to formal and structural choices akin to the perception and construction of the documentary. This is a crossover award both in terms of the festival’s sections (Competition BFFB39, RealeNonReale, BFFB Special, Focus and Piccole Lingue DOC) and in terms of the profile of the works under consideration.

The members of the ZeLIG jury at BFFB 39 are:

Zoé Maelle Bromma

Valeria Buffa

Luca Firmian

Alma Gunther

Meriam Jarboua

Vita La Maida

Sebastiano Scapinello

FILMCLUB Jury

A FILMCLUB Jury, made up of seven people selected for this purpose by the artistic direction of the Festival by means of a specific call for entries and accompanied by an expert in the field, will consider during BFFB 39 the IDM Film & Music Commission Sudtirol Award for Best Feature Film from the three Euregio regions, endowed with €2,000, and the IDM Film & Music Commission Sudtirol Award for Best Short Film from the three Euregio regions, endowed with €1,000. Cash prizes will be awarded to the company/person who enters the film and/or confirms its selection at BFFB 39.
These prizes correspond to a transversal competition open to audiovisual works produced or directed by professionals born in or resident in the EUREGIO Tyrol – South Tyrol – Trentino and selected in the following BFFB sections: Competition BFFB, RealeNonReale, Locals, LiLi – Little Lights and Piccole Lingue DOC, for feature films, and Locals and Piccole Lingue DOC for short films.

This year, the jury is being supported in its work by Marzia Mete, who is acting as a tutor. The jury members are:

Chiara Del Favero

Carmelo Ferreri

Josephine Kauschke

Stefano Riba

Jonas Reisigl

Cecilia Stefanelli

Jana Weissteiner.

BFFB 39 EuregioYoungJury

The Euregio YOUNG Jury, composed of students aged between 16 and 18 from South Tyrol, Trentino and the Austrian Tyrol, will also award the prize for the Best Film for a Young Audience at the BFFB from a selection of feature films. The members:

Milica Gligic, Wenns, “Ferrarischule”, Innsbruck

Paula Jähnig, Innsbruck, “Ferrarischule”, Innsbruck

Sarah Wagner, Vomp, “Ferrarischule”, Innsbruck

Alice Angeli, Riva del Garda, Liceo Linguistico "S. Scholl", Trento

Camila Gadler, Rovereto, Liceo delle Scienze Umane “F. Filzi”, Rovereto

Tobia Mazzonelli, Trento, Liceo Linguistico "S. Scholl", Trento

Alessandro Comina, Bolzano, Liceo classico “Giosuè Carducci”, Bolzano

Jonas Gluderer, Bozen, Sozialwissenschaftliches Gymnasium, Bozen

Arthur Unterpertinger Cariolato, Bozen, Realgymnasium “Campus Fagen”, Bozen

Special "Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site" Award Jury

The members of the jury for the special prize, which is awarded to the film that best reflects the values of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site, are:

Leo Hilpold

Thomas Philipp Streifeneder

Dorothea Vieidere

Volkmar Mair

Tutor

Sara Fgaier | ZeLIG Jury

Sara Fgaier is a director and editor. She was awarded the Rolex Arts Prize (2012–2013), which enabled her to work with Walter Murch. She directed the short films L’umile Italia (2014, Giornate degli Autori) and Gli anni (2018, Orizzonti). The latter was awarded the EFA for Best European Short Film and received the Nastro d’Argento for Best Documentary. Sulla terra leggeri (2024) is her first feature film, which was screened in the International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival.

Marzia Mete | FILMCLUB Jury

Marzia Mete is an editor and director. She studied film editing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and has been working across Europe for many years. She has collaborated with Vittorio De Seta, Citto Maselli, Paolo Virzì, Helga Reidemeister, Stefano Savona and Andreas Pichler, amongst others, on films that have been screened at international festivals. As a director, she has made documentaries about Italy and migration, as well as music videos for artists such as Paolo Fresu and Omar Sosa. Since 2003, she has been teaching dramaturgy and editing at the ZeLIG Filmschool.

EuregioYoungJury BFFB 39

Arnold Schnötzinger

He studied journalism and political science in Salzburg, specialising in audiovisual studies, since 1996 a permanent member of the editorial team of the Ö1 cultural department at ORF, specialising in film, since 2009 editorial director and presenter of the Ö1 film programme ‘Synchron’.

Rita Maria Lupi

Long-time employee of the film club, former teacher for Italian L2 at various secondary schools in South Tyrol, former lecturer for Italian at the universities of Riga (LV) and Rostock (DE), where she organised and led didactic film series for students.