The international Jury

TUE STEEN MÜLLER (DENMARK)
Born in 1947, he has worked for more than 20 years with short and documentary films at the Danish Film Board as commissioning editor and head of distribution. He was the co-founder of the Balticum Film and TV Festival, and a jury member in many European festivals. He has held documentary courses and seminars in over 30 countries. In 2004 he was awarded the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to Danish and European documentary culture. From 1996 to 2005 he was director of the EDN, European Documentary Network. He is a teacher in the Zelig Cinema School of Bolzano.

ELIO ORLANDI (ITALY)
Alpinist, mountain guide, filmmaker. He is one of the major figures of explorative alpinism in the mountains of the Patagonian Andes. 1982 was the year of his first non-European experience and he was particularly attracted by the aesthetics, difficulty, boldness and beauty of the Patagonian peaks that he continued to climb successfully for years and with great satisfaction. During his numerous journeys in Patagonia he often photographed and filmed scenes that he reproduced as short films and documentaries in an effort to arouse a love for the mountains, alpinism and climbing. He has participated with his work in various film festivals of adventure and mountaineering in the world and received several recognitions for Cuore di Ghiaccio - 1999, Cerro Torre nord ancora nord - 2000, Patacorta - 2001, Linea di Eleganza - 2006, and as co-auteur of Magico Est - 1988.

MAURIZIO ZACCARO (ITALY)
Graduated at the Cinema School in Milan. He has worked with Olmi, Nichetti and Bozzetto and has made 16 shorts including “Overkill” that in 1982 won the Juso prize for the best film at the International Festival of Oberhausen. From 1982 to 1990 he collaborated with Ipotesi Cinema, the cinema and television laboratory conceived by Paolo Valmarana and Ermanno Olmi. In 1990 he won the David di Donatello Award for the best film director making his debut with “Dove comincia la notte”. Other works directed by him “Il carniere” (1996), “Un uomo per bene” (1999) and the television fiction “Cuore” (2001).

SIBA SHAKIB (IRAN)
Film director and documentarist, she was born in Iran and lived for a long time in Afghanistan visiting the north and the territory controlled by the Taliban. She has made important documentaries illustrating the life of the Afghan population and especially the dramatic condition of the women. Several of her documentaries have won prizes including one on the horrors of life in Afghanistan and the plight of the Afghan women. She lives in New York and Germany. For Piemme Publishers she has published “Afghanistan, where God only comes to weep” (2002, 2004) that was a great success in Germany, where it was at the top of the best-sellers' list for many weeks. Her most recent book “The child who didn't exist” is an international best-seller translated in thirteen countries, from the USA to Japan.

SYLVIANE NEUENSCHWANDER (SWITZERLAND)
Born in Basel in 1954. She received a degree in medicine 1980. From 1998 to 2005 she studied social anthropology and film sciences at the University of Bern and Zurich and later attended courses of visual arts at the Professional University School of Arts in Bern. She is a medical doctor, anthropologist and, since 2001, she works as an independent filmmaker. She made the documentaries DestiNazione Amore (2002) and Schneeweisse schwarznasen (2006).