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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Berlin
Germany

January 18 - 24, 2016

 
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The Jury Short Film
Documentary

 

Julia Murakami Switzerland

julia Murakami


Julia Murakami is a regular curator and artistic director for Directors Lounge, including The Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival for contemporary art and media. Since 2005 Directors Lounge has been invited by international institutions, art events and cinematic venues to mount special screenings and exhibitions. She was born in Lucerne, spent her early childhood in New York and Miami and studied in Madrid before settling in Germany. Since moving to Berlin she has immersed herself in many aspects of diorama art, photography, installation and site specific work. She has participated in exhibitions and art fairs in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Thailand, South Korea, USA and other countries.







   

 

Ayat Najafi Iran / Germany

Ayat Najafi


Born in Tehran in 1976. He established a youth theatre company in college in 1995, while getting professional experience as an intern and participating in several workshops, with masters and professors of Iranian theatre. He participated in a number of different theatrical productions as an assistant director, author, actor, and set designer. Since 2000, he realized his own directorial work. In 2003, he established the Arta Atelier, focusing on an interdisciplinary, multimedia approach to theater, as well as experimental short and documentary film.
Ayat participated in at Berlinale Talent Campus, 2005, with his short film, “Move It” (2004). “Football Under Cover”, his 1st feature documentary, co-directed by David Assmann, premiered at the International Berlin Film Festival, 2008, and has participated in several other festivals, winning several awards, such as Teddy award for best documentary, Berlinale 2008 and PRIX EUROPA IRIS, 2009. „No Land’s Song“ his 2nd feature documentary premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival, 2014, and has shown in more than 50 Festivals around the world, winning several awards, such as the public award for Best Documentary, Montréal World Film Festival. Best documentary, Gijon International Film Festival. Youth Jury Award, DOK Leipzig. Nestor Almendros Award for Courage in Filmmaking, Human Rights Watch Film Festival - New York. He was a fellow at the International Research Center, Free University of Berlin and a the Exzellenzcluster, Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration, University of Constance where he presented his theater production, “Stories of Women with Mustaches and Men in Skirts”. “Lady Tehran”, his second theater production in Germany with an international cast and crew, was performed in Berlin in 2009. In 2011 he followed with “Rasht- City of Women”, and 2012 with “Pakistan (does not) Exist”, also performed in Berlin.
Ayat Najafi was a jury member at various festivals, including Amnesty International Jury at the Berlinale in 2012 and international jury at dokumentART- European Film Festival for Documentaries 2014. He is also author of numerous articles and essays for magazines, newspapers and web sites in Iran and Germany. He currently lives in Berlin and Tehran.




   
Anita Uzulniece Riga (Latvia)

Anita Uzulniece


Film critic. studied German philology at the State University of Latvia and Film sciences at the Film institute in Moscow. Dr. art. Co-author of the book Film History in Latvia, published by the Academie of Sciences Latvia, and Marija Leiko (film and theatre actress). Film critiques, reviews, articles on films, festival reports. Lectures on film history at RISEBA and EKA. Since 1999 – organizing in Riga the filmforum And the Word Became Film. Member of FIPRESCI and of the SteerComm of INTERFILM. Member of several FIPRESCI (Cottbus, Berlin, Chicago, Moscow, Riga), INTERFILM (Lübeck, Riga) and Ecumenical Juries (Berlin, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Montréal, Locarno, Cottbus)







   

 

 

 

 

 


 

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