Who will pick the winners? Meet our jury!

This year’s jury consists of distinguished film professionals and original artists, who will evaluate the films in competition but who also agreed to take part in deciding on our non-competition and accompanying programme. Thus, we’ll have the opportunity to present blocks of extraordinary and absorbing films by Florence Miailhe, Kristina Dufková, Phil Mulloy, Mark Skrobecki or Ferenc Cakó, who will give a live performance of his sand animation. The director Haiyang Wang will introduce a festival’s curated block, featuring, among others, his films reflecting Chinese contemporary independent animation. František Váša, an animator and director, will lead an unusual workshop Working with a Film Puppet, demonstrating the use of puppets on specific situations. Philippe Moins, a co-founder of ANIMA, a famous festival in Brussels, will present a selection of the awarded films from the last edition of the festival. Eija Saarinen prepared a presentation of the works of students and graduates from the University of Turku. This year, the school, the main hot-bed of new talents of Finish animation, celebrates its 100 year anniversary. Mark Shapiro from LAIKA, an American animation studio, will talk about the origins of their latest puppet megahit The Boxtrolls.