Barbara Lorey De Lacharriere

Cultural journalist and film critic for various major German and Swiss dailies and magazines for over twenty years (Die Welt, Tageszeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, epd film…). Curator of photo exhibitions in Europe and the USA (Annemarie Schwarzenbach, The Dark Years 1937 – 1938; Paris, New York, Chicago, Tbilisi) Annemarie Schwarzenbach: Selected Photographs and Writings, 1933-1940, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College). Former artistic director of the East-West Film Festival (Orenburg, Russia) and program consultant and curator for various international film festivals such as Mumbai Intl. Film Festival, ( India), Visions du Réel and Fribourg Film Festival, (Switzerland), FIPA, (France) , Millenium Film Festival, (Belgium), Metropolis Cinema and Filmhaus Nürnberg (Germany).

Director of Department at FIPRESCI in charge of FIPRESCI AWARD Promotion, she is organizing since 2010 special film programs for a wide range of film festivals all over the world, and as a challenge to Covid, she created in 2021 with her company alizarine, films, arts & events, Terres d’Ici, Terres d’Ailleurs, a film festival in a small rural village in Southwest France. In 2023 she joined the programming team of the Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tetouan, Morocco.

Born in the former GDR, BLdL studied theater and social sciences and is a graduate from Hamburg University (Germany) in Clinical Psychology and a post-graduate from Sorbonne and EHESS (France) in Sociology.

Igor Soukmanov

Film expert, publicist, festival organiser and journalist, the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI member, founding member of the Belarusian Independent Film Academy. For 11 years (2010-2020) he served as a program director for the Listapad International Film Festival in Minsk. Since 2022 he serves as an Advisory Board Member of programming at the Odesa IFF and as a senior programmer for the Warsaw IFF. Worked as Eastern European film market consultant for the European Film Market at Berlinale’23-24. ?urrently serves as a member of the goEast Wiesbaden Film Festival's selection committee.

KIM Young-woo

Festival programmer, festival consultant, curator. Kim studied Visual Arts & TV at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. In 2014, he joined the selection committee of the Busan International Film Festival as a programmer in charge of Asian cinema until 2019. Working closely with Korean independent cinema groups, he has been a member of the Association of Korean Independent Film & Video. He recently joined Gangneung International Film Festival (Korea) as Head of Programming, and also a program advisor to LOCARNO, IDFA, Red Sea Film Festival, and more festivals in the EU.