The feature film jury is made up of prominent figures belonging to different Italian and international cultural fields: directors, actors, but also writers, musicians, personalities of the cultural world in general. This variety creates a common ground for different artistic expressions and for different interpretations of contemporary life. The long list of jurors also includes Maurizio Maggiani and Art Spiegelman, Luca Bigazzi and Nicolo' Ammanniti, Yolanda Mukagasana, Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian, Alia Arasoughly and Jean Jeaques Wunenburger, Daniele Gaglianone, Danielle Arbid and Roberto Saviano, Marco Baliani, Esmeralda Calabria and Andrew Davies, up to Manuel Agnelli, Silvia Ballestra, Carlotta Cristiani and Alessandro Piva that is the 2008 jury.

Simon Ellis, UK

Simon graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1995, specialising in Fine Art photography.ÊSince then his short films have received many international festival awards and have been presented in retrospective programmes at film festivals worldwide.Ê His short film Soft won thirty-eight prizes including the jury prize for Best International Short at Sundance.Ê He has just completed his first feature film.

Anna Melikyan, Russia

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, she grew up in Yerevan and moved to Moscow in 1994, where she took up studies at the film school in Sergei Soloviev's class. In 2001, she was a post-production trainee on a number of films in Germany. After graduating in 2002 she began working for television and made short films that won many awards at several international film festivals. In 2004 she made her first feature film, Mars. At Sundance 2008, she won the best director's award with Rusalka, which was also the Russian film nominated for the Academy Awards.

Michelange Quay, France / Haiti

Michelange Quay was born of Haitian parents in New York City. He studied Anthropology and Filmmaking at the University of Miami and received his M.F.A. in Directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Eat, for This Is My Body is his debut feature film, awarded at Miami Film Festival after being presented in competitions such as Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, and Tokyo Filmex. He had previously directed the award-winning short film The Gospel of the Creole Pig, which won the short film competition award at Milano Film Festival as well as Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, and many others.Ê

Nicolas Provost, Belgium

Nicolas Provost is a filmmaker and visual artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. His work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films are screened worldwide on both visual art platforms and film festivals and have earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals as among others The Sundance Film Festival, The San Francisco International Filmfestival, Cinevegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Viennale, The Locarno Film Festival...

Joachim Trier, Norway

Joachim Trier was born in 1974 in Copenhagen. In 2000, he graduated from the National Film and Television School in England. He has already made a string of celebrated short films. Three of them, Procter (2002), Pietà (2000) and Still (2000), have been screened at several international film festivals and won many awards. His debut feature film, Reprise (2006) was distributed in 28 countries and won over 30 international awards. He is currently working on his next film, which he is planning to shoot next year.