Nikica Gilić, Gaby Babić and Christoph Thoke are members of the jury for feature length documentary film at the 17th MFF.

Nikica Gilić is an editor of a number of film magazines and author of books on film, and he also works as a professor at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb. Gabi Babić has taught at universities in Frankfurt, Konstanz and Paderborn, and as a film curator she has worked for various festivals and cultural institutions. She is the director of the festival Go East. Christoph Thoke is a film producer from Germany, whose films were selected into the official competition at festivals in Cannes, Venetia and Berlin and were candidates for the German Film Award, European Film Award, Golden Globe and Oscar. This jury decides on the best author from the category of feature documentary film. 

Nikica Gilić (Split, 1973). Studied comparative literature and English in Zagreb, Croatia, where he got his PhD in film studies in 2005. He works as associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where he teaches history and theory of cinema. He also teaches film theory at the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb. He is the editor in chief of Hrvatski filmski ljetopis journal and a member of the editorial boards of online journals Images (Croatia) and Apparatus (Germany). He wrote books Uvod u povijest hrvatskog igranog filma (Introduction to the History of Croatian Film, Zagreb 2010 and 2011), Uvod u teoriju filmske priče (Introduction to Theory of Narration in Cinema, Zagreb, 2007) and Filmske vrste i rodovi (Film Genres and Types, Zagreb, 2007, second, online edition 2013). He also edited several books. He worked on juries and selection committees of several festivals, such as Pula Film Festival, Dani hrvatskog filma, ZagrebDox and Animafest Zagreb.

Gaby Babić was born in Germany in 1976. She obtained her Master's degree in Political Science, German Literature and Theory of Theatre, Film and Media. She studied in Frankfurt and Paris. She taught at German universities in Frankfurt, Konstanz and Paderborn. As a film curator, she worked for various festivals and cultural institutions. She is the director of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden.

Christoph Thoke is a German Film Producer.  His films reached 700 festival selections and won 160 awards. He has been working with highly acclaimed directors such as three-time Cannes winner Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and two-times Cannes winner Bruno Dumont, Apichatpong Weerasethakul  and Rachid Bouchareb. Having started as a studio executive at German major Bavaria Film, at Taunus Film, Wiesbaden and at postproduction giant Cine Media Film Christoph began to produce through his own shingle Thoke + Moebius Film. In 2007 he launched Mogador Film (Berlin, Frankfurt, Mainz) from where he is currently producing and financing for the local and international market. His films were officially selected for main competition in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, and have been candidates for the German Film Award, the European Film Award, the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Awards.