FESTIVAL 2026
JURY & PRIZES
Members of jury 2026
Eva Egermann
Eva Egermann is an artist living in Vienna. In her artistic and textual practice, she engages with activist movements, subcultures from various eras, and re-examines categories and political conditions of ability/disability and non-conforming bodies. In 2012, she launched the magazine project "Crip Magazine". Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions; most recently, she organized the "Anti Stigma" Crip Convention at Belvedere 21, Vienna. Together with filmmaker Cordula Thym, Eva Egermann produced a docu-fictional television show titled "C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern …)", which – through a critical and humorous approach to representation – envisions a utopia of an inclusive film and media world. In 2023, they received the Diagonale Award for Innovative Cinema for it. Photo: Marija Šabanović
Nora Longatti
Nora Longatti is an artist/filmmaker and mentor. She was born in Biel-Bienne in 1989 and studied film at écal in Lausanne, fine arts at UMPRUM in Prague, and transdisciplinarity at ZHdK Zurich. Her short films have received multiple international awards, including "Chute", which was honored with the Pardino d’Oro in Locarno in 2021, among others. Her artistic research practice engages in critical-poetic explorations of imagery and through open processes. Currently, she is developing her first feature film in collaboration with FLINTA care workers and mentors filmmakers and artists in the development of artistic moving image projects. Photo: Eva Linder
Stanko Pavlica
Stanko Pavlica was born in Zurich in 1974. For over 20 years, he has worked as a filmmaker, cameraman, DP, and coach for video and film projects and for television. In 2003, he co-founded the deaf web TV channel FocusFive TV, which he led for 15 years. From 2001–05, he trained as a sign language teacher (HfH Zurich), and in 2008, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Filmmaking. In 2015, he founded his own video and film production company, Focus Film GmbH, and has since worked as an independent filmmaker. Photo: Andrin Siebenhaar