JURY
Bernarda Oman
She graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in 1986. For twelve years, she was a member of the Prešeren Theater Kranj. Right now, she is working at MGL, the Ljubljana City Theatre. She has created about 70 theater roles and has worked on many TV dramas, films and series. She has been happy and grateful to have worked with directors such as Jože Gale, Matjaž Klopčič, Antun Vrdoljak, Bogdan Žižič, Peter Zobec, Maja Weiss and many others. Bernarda Oman has won some awards in Slovenia and some at festivals in ex-Yugoslavia.
Dragan Bjelogrlić
After graduating from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Dragan Bjelogrlić quickly proved to be one of the leading Serbian actors and artists.
In his career that has spanned 40 years, he has acted in more than 40 films, 20 television series and dramas and 11 theater productions. To name a few: How Rock’n’Roll was Ruined (1989), The Black Bomber (1992), Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996), The Wounds (1998), Cheese and Jam (2003), The Red Colored Grey Truck (2004) ...
He has pursued his artistic ambition in the field of directing and producing too. In 1994, he founded his own production company, Cobra Film. He directed a successful TV series and an even more successful film Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010) that has brought him a nomination for the Serbian submission to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. In recent years, he has seen enormous success with his series Balkan Shadows (2017–2020) the screening rights to which have been also acquired by Amazon Prime.
For his work, he has received more than 15 film awards at Serbian festivals and more than 20 international film awards and accolades.
Marko Mandić
A theatre and film actor. He graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television, supplemented his studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the HB Studio (Master Class with Uta Hagen) in New York, and has been a member of the Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana since 1998. He often works with the directors Ivica Buljan, Bojan Jablanovec and the independent theatre group Via Negativa. He has received a number of awards for his work; in 2007 he was awarded the Shooting Star Award at Berlinale.
He has been making films and series in Slovenia (Rascals!, Vladimir, L … like Love, Landscape No.2, In Treatment, Inferno, Echoes of Time, Night Life, Erased, Man With Shadow) and internationally (In the Face of Crime, Civil Courage, Gold, Lose Your Head, Naked Among Wolves, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, The New End, O Beautiful Night, The Dawn).