Juries 2025

SAUVAGE Prize Jury

President of the SAUVAGE Prize Jury.

Ena Sendijarević

(President of the SAUVAGE Prize Jury)

Ena Sendijarević is an Amsterdam based filmmaker of Bosnian origins. After studying cinema at the University of Amsterdam and then at the Freie Universität in Berlin, she graduated from the Netherland Film Academy in 2014. Ena Sendijarević made a name for herself with several short films (” Travelers into the night” in 2013, “Fernweh” in 2014 and “Import” in 2016) which won numerous awards at festivals around the world including the Directors’ Fortnight and the Toronto Film Festival. Her latest short film represented the Netherlands at the 2017 Oscars. Ena has also been a juror for several festivals. In 2018, her first feature film “Take me somewhere nice” was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and won an award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His film “Sweet Dreams” was honored at the Europe by Europe Festival in 2024 and won the Silver Hugo at the 2023 Chicago International Film Festival in the New Directors section.

Member of the SAUVAGE Prize Jury.

Lolita Chammah

Lolita Chammah has been an actress since childhood. She worked with Claude Chabrol and Werner Schroeter when she was a child. Then she shot “La vie moderne” by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, her first major film role. Her acting career then began with Coline Serreau, Claire Denis, Claire Simon, Benoit Jacquot, then Mikael Hers, Zina Modiano, Marc Fitoussi, René Féret. She shot feature films, but also short films including those by Louis Garrel, Marilyne Canto, Mia Hansen-Løve … then roles were written for her, such as Gaby baby doll by Sophie Letourneur, Drôles d’oiseaux by Elise Girard. She also shot “Barrage” with Laura Schroeder, Aurore by Laetitia Masson with Elodie Bouchez. She has worked with Julian Schnabel, Lorenz Merz, Christophe le Masne.

SAUVAGE Prize Jury.

Giuseppe Garau

Giuseppe Garau was born and raised in Sardinia. At the age of 18, he moved to Turin. After directing award-winning documentaries and short films, he began exploring cinematic language and the 16mm format. “The Incident“, winner of the Slamdance 2024 Grand Jury Prize and presented at the 19th edition of the Europe by Europe Festival, is his first feature film.

SAUVAGE Prize Jury.

Pierre Triapkine

After serving as a project manager at the theater office of the French Association for Artistic Action, Pierre Triapkine headed the cinema office at the External Audiovisual Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then served as Head of the audiovisual and cinema component of French cultural seasons abroad and foreign seasons in France within the Culture France structure. Pierre Triapkine is now a consultant and member of the cinematographic works classification committee.

PRESENT Prize Jury

President of the PRESENT Prize Jury.

Miriana Bojic Walter

(President of the PRESENT Prize Jury)

After working at RTL, then as a journalist, Miriana Walter held positions as a consultant, development manager and fundraiser in the film industry. In 2001, she founded Zeta Productions in Paris, a company specializing in the production of creative documentaries. She is the producer of a large number of internationally co-produced creative documentaries and the author of several films, including: “Sandžak, the Eldorado of the Balkans“; “Jean-Louis Trintignant, why I live“; “Yugoslavia, on the other side of the mirror“; and “Ustasha, the forgotten genocide“, which she also directed.

PRESENT Prize Jury.

Claire Angelini

Claire Angelini, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSB-A) and the Sorbonne (Art History), practices film in the form of essays, focusing on the memory foundations of landscapes, traces, collective narratives, and an archaeology of places and things, as well as drawing, photography, installation, and performance.

7 feature-length essay films, including “War is Near” (Historical Documentary Award, Blois History Meeting, 2011 and CNAP collection), “This Gigantic Turning of the Earth” (Berlinale, 2015), “Chronicle of the Excluded Middle” (User Rights Award from the Ministry of Health, 2017). “Latest Films: In the Time of Others” (2020), “Jeanne Acts Out” (2024). A dozen short films. Publications: Drancy la muette (preface by Yannick Haenel); Writing Would Be the Epicenter of the Day (with Marie-Hélène Lafon); Landscape History. Participation in various conferences and study days in France and abroad (Germany, Brazil). His work has been shown at international festivals (Berlinale Forum section, Viennale, Cinéma du Réel French Contrechamp section, Etats généraux du film documentaire de Lussas, Forumdoc Belo Horizonte, Indielisboa, Underdox Film festival,) as well as film libraries (Cinémathèque de Montréal, Cinemateca brasileira de Sao Paolo, Filmmuseum de Munich, Filmmuseum de Hamburg, Institut Jean Vigo de Perpignan), French and European art-house cinemas, associations, art centers, universities, fine arts schools, film clubs and cultural centers.

PRESENT Prize Jury.

Guillaume Robillard

Guillaume Robillard holds a doctorate in cinema and is a lecturer at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of the Antilles. His research has resulted in two books, Conquest of Space and Time: Caribbean Cinema (Jannink Editions, 2023), and A Decolonial Cinema: Characters in Caribbean Cinema (Presses Universitaires des Antilles, 2024), recently presented at the Forum des Images. Initially trained in film school, he directed the 52-minute documentary Poétique du Divers (2015) on the work of poet Édouard Glissant. Guillaume Robillard has been the programming director of FEMI (Guadeloupe Regional and International Film Festival) since 2020.

SAUVAGE CORTO Prize Jury

President of the SAUVAGE CORTO Prize Jury.

Vincent Quénault

(President of the SAUVAGE CORTO Prize Jury)

Vincent Quénault is a producer based in Luxembourg. After working for Ciné+ in France as a director for the heritage programs “Boulevard du Classic” and “V!VA Cinema,” he joined the team at Red Lion, a Luxembourg production company, in 2013. Vincent Quénault’s credits include “Maret” by Laura Schroeder (2023), “Lost Country” by Vladimir Perišic, “Black Tea” by Abderrahmane Sissako, and “La Cache” by Lionel Baier.

He also produces in France with his production company Marionnette. He is also involved in the association “Retour sur image” for the preservation of Luxembourg’s cinematographic heritage. He recently oversaw the restoration of Pol Cruchten’s film “Nuit de noces” (1992).

SAUVAGE CORTO Prize Jury.

Giulia Grossmann

Born in Paris in 1984, Giulia Grossmann studied at the Beaux-Arts in Caen and then at Paris-Cergy. She then trained in anthropology at the University of Paris-Nanterre. Her first short film ” Native American“(2012) won the Inrocks Lab Video Creation Prize. His works are shown in art centers, galleries and museums as well as in festivals, such as the International Documentary Festival in Marseille or the Imagine Science Festival in New York. His film “Proxima B“released in 2017 was selected for the 2019 Contemporary Talent Prize from the François Schneider Foundation. In 2021, she was the winner of the Tara residency by Agnès B, Microbiomes project. Her film “Pasaia” won an award at the Europe by Europe festival in 2021.

SAUVAGE CORTO Prize Jury.

Moritz Pfeifer

Moritz Pfeifer is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin. He studied philosophy, sociology, and economics in Berlin and Paris. He holds a PhD from the University of Nanterre in Paris and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Leipzig. He co-edited Urban Space on Screen: Cinematographies of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine, published by Amsterdam University Press.