Members of the jury for feature length documentary film at 15th MFF are Antonia Dubravka Carnerud, independent film director, producer, expert counsellor and member of Swedish Film Academy, Manuel Jiménez Núñez, awarded Spanish director and Pjer Žalica, BH director and dean of the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. This jury pronounces the best author in the category of feature length documentary film.

Antonia Dubravka Carnerud was born in Zagreb, where she finished the School of industrial arts and started her college education at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. She continued her studies in France and then Belgium, where she graduated from the Film Academy INSAS. She is an independent film director, producer, editor and expert counsellor. She has been present for years in European film and television industry, first of all in Sweden, and also in Belgium, France and Croatia. She has produced and directed a dozen of medium-length and short documentary and feature films, among others: ‘No Way Back’, ‘We Were Young – Believed that Yugoslavia is the Only One’, ‘Dubrovnik – Walls of our Past’, ‘Memento’, TV documentary ‘In Love with Life’...

Manuel Jiménez Núñez was born in1973 in Málaga (Spain). In 2006 he directed his first full-length documentary, ‘The Lost Vilage’, which made its world premiere in the official selection of the IDFA, won the First Prize of the Jury at Documenta Madrid 2007. After that, he directed ‘The Salt Men’, which won the Second Prize of the Jury at Documenta Madrid 2009, RTVA Award at Alcances 2009, and the First Prize of the Jury at Almeria en Corto 2009. ‘The Terrible Mexican Actor’, commemorative film for the 25th anniversary of the Cervantes Theatre, was his fourth work, won the Special Prize of the Jury in the 40thHuesca International Film Festival and the First Prize of the Jury at the 44th Muestra Cinematográfica del Atlántico. His last documentary ‘Magic Project’ was the official opening film at the 44th Muestra Cinematográfica del Atlántico, and won the Best Iberoamerican Documentary Prize at 41st Huesca International Film Festival.

Pjer Žalica was born in Sarajevo in 1964, and graduated direction at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. He has worked in the theatre and on film. In the beginning of the nineties he was a member of the SAGA group that filmed documentaries during the entire war period, mostly dedicated to the daily lives of the people in surrounded Sarajevo. After the war he has been more engaged in feature films and television. He is the screenwriter of the first post-war Bosnian-Herzegovinian film ‘Perfect Circle’. He is also the screenwriter and director of feature films ‘Fuse’ and ‘Days and Hours’, which were awarded with over 50 international awards. Recently, he has been the author of music documentary-feature film ‘Orchestra’, documentary film ‘Slave’ and he is also a co-author of the TV serial ‘Ball’. He has written a number of screenplays for the film and television. Today he is the dean at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where he is also a lecturer.