Juries 2022
International Competition Jury – Fiction Films and Animation section
Vladimir Golovnev
Screenwriter, film director, producer. Russia
Screenwriter, film director, producer, member of the Russian Cinematographers’ Union. Director of Unworldly (2008, documentary), The Game (2010, documentary), Two Childhoods (2016, documentary), Glad to See You (2019, short film), The Changers (2021, documentary), Long Shot (2021, documentary), and others. Winner of multiple Russian and international festivals: Window to Europe, Let’s Live!, Makedox (North Macedonia), Flahertiana, etc. Winner of the LAVR National Award (Best TV Movie nomination).
At VKRATZE! 2022, Vladimir Golovnev will present his award-winning Long Shot documentary (2021) and deliver a workshop.
Hamidreza Ghasemi
film director, screenwriter, producer. Iran/Russia.
At the 9th VKRATZE! Days of Short Films, the Iranian cinematographer will also present his Breeze short film (2022) that won Silver Saint George special prize at the 44th Moscow International Film Festival.
Yulianna Mikhnevich
Theater and film actor. Belarus
Her filmography includes The Thaw, Swamp, Little Soldier, Martha’s Line and other films and series.
Natalya Yusupova
Doctor of Art History, Uzbekistan .
Associate Professor at Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad al-Khwarizmi, teacher at Focus School (first non-governmental film and theater school in Uzbekistan)
Olga Malkova
Candidate of Sciences (Art History). Volgograd, Russia
Member of the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Art Historians, Deputy Director on Academic Research of I. Mashkov Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts.
International Competition Jury – Animation section
Dmitry Vlasov
Screenwriter, director, animation artist. Uzbekistan.
Former animator at Uzbekfilm studio, teacher at Focus School (Tashkent). His filmography includes Potter (2002, winner of KROK International Animated Films Festival, Russia; Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan; Golden Prize in the Best Philosophical Film nomination at Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran; etc.), Come As It May (2005, winner of international film festivals in Russia and Belarus), White Chicken (2009, special award of 2010 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, etc.), Lamb, Pipe, and Evil Bandits (2020, Best Adaptation of a National Fairy Tale award at Animaevka festival, Belarus).
Awarded the Dustik Order of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Sabrina Karabaeva
Ekaterinburg, Russia
Director of Stand-up Is Pain documentary (Best National Film award at Message to Man International Film Festival), and A Few Things That Remind Me of Him anidoc, coauthor of What Am I Doing Here? anidoc series, screenwriter of Kinopoisk video essays.
Russian Films Competition Jury
Vladimir Golovnev
Screenwriter, film director, producer. Russia
Member of the Russian Cinematographers’ Union. Winner of multiple Russian and international film festivals.
Galina Zhdankina
Volgograd, Russia
Film scholar, Candidate of Sciences (Art History). Author of over 80 academic studies, textbooks, newspaper and journal articles. Director of Concept movie club (Volgograd). Organizer and director of first art festivals in Volgograd that screened international and Russian arthouse films: Season of Love, Festival of Festivals, Other Cinema (1998-2004). Director of Cinema Without Borders – Volgograd arthouse festival (2009-2016). Council Member and Regional Director of the Federation of Cinema Clubs (Russia). Juror of several international film festivals.
Maria Semina
Аnimation artist and director, Russia
Participant of the animation documentary workshop at Kinoproba 2021 Festival (Ekaterinburg) and Collection Point residency of the Academy of Animation Art (2022).
Director of Monkey Beats animation, selected for the competition program of ANIMUR, Big Cartoon Festival, Kinoproba.
Anastasia Ivanova
Russia
Executive producer of Igra film company, producer of advertising videos for Russian and international brands, producer of The Your Management director’s agency.
International Competition Jury – Films for Children section
Anna Kuznetsova
Screenwriter and film director. Russia.
Graduate of MSU Faculty of Journalism (2005). Worked as a journalist, copywriter, photojournalist, and TV reporter. Graduate of Moscow School of Cinema (2017, course supervisors – A. Popogrebsky, B. Khlebnikov, D. Klebleyev). Her graduate short film 628 received the Best Female Character diploma at Kinotavr festival (2018) and won several Russian and international festivals (including Best Film nomination at VKRATZE! In 2021-2022, she directed her first feature film Holidays.
Yuila Fotornaya
Volgograd, Russia
Director of Warm Artists inclusive theater, director of several stage plays, participant of Russian inclusive theater festivals.
