Jury 2024
Baltic Focus
Dmytro Desiateryk — Dmytro Desiateryk is a Ukrainian film critic and cultural journalist. He received a theatre critic education in Kyiv. In 1999-2022 he worked as a cultural correspondent for the daily all-Ukrainian newspaper Den` (The Day), and is now a regular contributor to the online publications Detector Media (Ukraine). Author of materials on the topics of cinema and culture in Ukrainian and foreign media, including Kinokolo, birdinflight.com, Corridor, Dilova Stolytsia (Ukraine), Current Time (Prague, Czech Republic), Nasze Slowo (Warsaw, Poland). Member of FIPRESCI, European and Ukrainian Film Academies, voter of the 80th and 81st Golden Globes.
Henrietta Verhoustinska — Henrietta Verhoustinska, a cultural journalist, theater critic, and Latvian Television presenter, has also distinguished herself as a scriptwriter for seven documentaries. Notably, three of her works, namely "Zaiga Gaile: Architect's Passion," "Lidija," and "Delle," were honored with the prestigious "Lielais Kristaps" Latvian cinema award. As a documentary filmmaker, Henrietta Verhoustinska explores the depth of personalities, while as a viewer, she embraces the full breadth of the documentary cinema spectrum. She expected from the cinema an emotional and intellectual hit in the solar plexus.
Giedrė Žickytė — Lithuanian film director and producer. She graduated from the Vilnius Art Academy, worked on television, has more than 20 local and international film festival prizes. Her films were shown at festivals IDFA, Hot Docs, Visions du Reel and others.