The films in the Competition of First and Second Feature Films will be reviewed by the Main Jury awarding the Grand Prix for Best Film, Best Director Award, Best Actress Award, and Best Actor Award. One member of the main jury will be the Macedonian actress and producer Labina Mitevska. She began her acting career in her 19, in Milcho Manchevsky's film Before the Rain, which was awarded The Golden Lion at Venice 1994. Later she acted in films of Michael Winterbottom, or in the Czech film Loners. In 2001 she founded a production company Sisters and Brothers Mitevski with her siblings. Since then she dedicates herself to this area.
Mitevska will be joined in the jury by the American writer, scriptwriter, pedagogue and poet James Ragan, who contributed to making of the films The Godfather, The Deer Hunter and as consultant also to Zuzana Liová's film The House. He has also written several screenplays and directed some of them. During the IFF Bratislava, James Ragan will lead a Master Class at the Academy of Art in Banská Bystrica.
The third member of the jury is the famous and popular Slovak actress, the Czech Lion holder Jana Hubinská, known from the films Wrong Side Up, Girlie (Czech Lion 2003), or Faithless Games.
The appraisal of the best documentary film will be in hands of an experienced British producer and author Rebekah Tolley, who visited the IFF Bratislava 2012 with the legendary documentarist Michael Grigsby and their film We Went to War. Another member of the jury is the Macedonian critic Blagoya Kunovski, a member of more than 30 FIPRESCI or FEDEORA juries at the biggest world festivals and a former art director of the biggest Macedonian festival Manaki Brothers. The trio is completed by the Slovak film and art theoretician Petra Hanáková, a curator of the Slovak National Gallery and author of monographs on Pedro Almódovar and Paľo Bielik.
The Short Films jury, which will award the Best Short Film, will comprise of the former IFF Rotterdam programmer Juliette Jansen, who currently dedicates herself mainly to film literacy and leading of Q&A; originally an animator and until recently the programme director of the Fest Anča Andrej Kolenčík, director of short films Exhibition and A Star, of many animated films, short ads, and video clips; and the Polish culture and film critic Dieter Wieczorek, a curator of the film festival Pesaro.
The Competition of First and Second Feature Films will be evaluated also by the FIPRESCI jury. The decision on the award will be made by the Russian critic and pedagogue Alexey Gusev, who was founder and head of the St Petersburg theatre SatourN and who is director of one film; the French journalist Pierre-Yves Roger; and the publicist, promoter, and organiser of several festivals (Barbakan, Eastsider) Miroslav Lánik.
The Students' Jury will give away its own award. The jury is composed of Perla Karvašová (scriptwriter and dramaturge at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava), Michal Huštaty (a student of photography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava), and Anna Ďurišíková (a student of English and Spanish language and culture at the Comenius University Bratislava).
And the viewers' competition will decide upon the best film of the whole festival programme, chosen by the visitors in voting.
