An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.

Born in 1984, Miguel Cabral is a Belgian Portuguese director and sound engineer. He studied at the Cinema and Theatre High School of Lisbon in sound and film.

He studied at the Louis Lumière School where he specialized in sound. In 2009, he directed “Comptes de Nuit” and won the young film price at the Torrelavega International Festival in Spain. In 2010 his film “Equilibrio Justo” won the Great Price of the Mohammedia in Morocco. Miguel is currently member of short films selection comittee for the Independent Cinema Festival of Lisbon.

He also works as sound engineer on films. The year, he directed “Cette mélodie qui vient de loin”, a documentary produced by Gabriel Vanderpas.

Marta Jurkiewicz (1982, Poland) is an Amsterdam based artist and filmmaker. She studied Audiovisual Media at Cooper Union School of Arts in New York and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she graduated from in 2005.

She has recently received her second diploma as a documentary director from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy

For the last couple of years she has also been working as a festival distributor of Dutch experimental films at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

Moufida Fedhila is a Tunisian visual artist, filmmaker, photographer and poetess. Arrived in France when she was very young, she studies various subjects before specializing in arts at the Fine Arts School of Rennes, from which she releases graduates. She realizes her first personal exhibition in Italy. Then, she specializes in photography, investigates performance and installation and exposes in Europe and Tunisia.

In 2006, Moufida Fedhila joins the Plastic Experiment of Sound Group and creates sound spaces while realizing experimental movies selected in several festivals. Moufida is the author of numerous philosophical essays and a poet known thanks to her poetry in Arabic language, published at Alhadara edition.

Eva Pervolovici is a Rumanian director who already counts in its asset an interesting list of short films, artistic videos, photos and writing collaborations on novels and art magazines. Graduate of a degree in MFA Movie Advance Practice (Edinburgh), she lives and works in Paris since 2008.

Eva Pervolovici and the originality of its work were presented and rewarded in numerous festivals all around the world. She participated in the Talent Campus of Berlin, Sarajevo and Reykjavik. In 2010, a selection for the Berlin Today Award allows her to realize a new short film, "Little Red", which will be presented during the Berlin Festival 2011. The same year, she obtains the "Cannes à la Flip" prize rewarding the best short film. Her last two short films "LubeBen" and "Mina" are presented to Rotterdam Festival in 2011 (in competition and Spectrum) .

Currently, she develops three full-lengths in parallel: "Ileana" produced by Strada Film (Berlinale Silver Bear 2010) and coproduced by KinoElektron, as well as "You can call me Ada" and "Marussa" produced by KinoElektron.

Pradeepan Raveendran, born in Sri Lanka in 1981, is a self-taught in photography and direction.

Based in France since 2004, he established the production company "Exil Image" in 2008. His first movie as director is "'A Mango Tree in the Front Yard" in 2009. This movie was named for a Golden Bear in the prestigious International Film Festival of Berlin

. His second short film "Shadows of silence" was introduced to the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, in the "Quinzaine des réalisateurs " category, dedicated to the alternative and independent cinema. Each of these movies was shown on screen in several festivals all over the world.