22nd IN THE PALACE ISFF, 2025

  • Nikola Vukčević

    Nikola Vukčević

     Nikola Vukcevic is prominent Montenegrin film director, theatre director and university professor of Film directing, Head of departement of FILM AND MEDIA at the national Faculty of dramatiuc Arts at University of Montenegro (UCG).
  • Per Fikse

    Per Fikse

     Per Fikse is the Director of Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, from 1999 to date, a festival he has programmed for since 1994.
  • Peter Zemek

    Peter Zemek

     Peter is the curator at IndieCork Film festival focusing on international shorts and international features.  He is also the co-creator and director of Visegrad Film Festival since 2016, which currently features as a guest programme at IndieCork Film Festival.
  • Philip Ilson

    Philip Ilson

     Philip Ilson is the Artistic Director of the London Short Film Festival, which he co-founded in 2004, after running the Halloween Society film club for 10 years previously since 1994.
  • Radostina Neykova

    Radostina Neykova

     Radostina Neykova is a Bulgarian director, animator, children’s book illustrator, and academic. She serves as Professor and Program Director of the Animation department, as well as Program Director of the Faculty “Production and post-production” at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) “Krastyo Sarafov”.
  • Sandy Lieberson

    Sandy Lieberson

     Sandy Lieberson has been a major figure in the film industry in Europe and America since the 1960s, having acted as agent for among others, Sergio Leone, Peter Sellers, Richard Harris, Lindsay Anderson and the Rolling Stones.
  • Soňa Morgenthalová

    Soňa Morgenthalová

     Soňa Morgenthalová has a background in film theory and cultural management.  She worked with Bong Joon Ho's crew during the filming of Snowpiercer in the Czech Republic and contributed to numerous international films and series through a Prague-based casting agency.
  • Vítězslav Chovanec

    Vítězslav Chovanec

     Vítězslav joined the team of Czech Film Center in 2017. He graduated from Film and Audiovisual Culture Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. At the CFC, Vítězslav is responsible for promotion of Czech documentary and short films abroad and consults festival strategies of upcoming films as well.
  • Matei Branea

    Matei Branea

     Bucharest born and based visual artist: animation film director, comics author and illustrator. His comics and illustrations were published and exhibited nationally and internationally from Tokyo to New York, trough Berlin, London, Paris and of course, Bucharest.