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The Hungarian film director was a member of the International Jury for the main competition of the Berlinale 2021. Her film Testről és lélekről (On Body and Soul) won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2017 and was nominated not only for an Oscar but also for several European Film Awards. Enyedi's debut film My 20th Century (1989) was awarded the Caméra d'Or at Cannes. Enyedi has already been a jury member at festivals in Venice, Moscow or San Sebastián. Her internationally cast film The Story of My Wife had its premiere in Cannes in 2021.
 

Producer, director and mentor at Prague’s FAMU. He released 20 feature films, half fictional and got many Czech and international awards. Focusing on films by debut-making directors (e.g. Schmitke, Best Debut at Cottbus IFF 2015) as well as the filmmaker of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Karel Vachek, whose last film Communism and the Net premiered at IFFR 2020. His recent productions include the wildlife film Wild Prague, a sequel of the successful Wilder than Wilderness, which got 100.000 audience in Czech cinemas and Czech-Portuguese co-production of Lawrence of Moravia, a puppet anidok about the famous discoverer of the Arab world.

was born in Mainz. She studied Political Science, Indology and Economics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, at the University of Sussex, UK and at the University of Heidelberg. Her doctorate was in South Asian political science. She wrote her dissertation on the women's quota in local parliaments introduced in India in 1991. From 2001–2004 she headed the branch of the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University in New Delhi, India. She then took over as director of the Goethe-Institut in Bangalore, after which she worked as an overall strategy officer at the Goethe Head Office in Munich and finally as director of the Goethe-Institut Bucharest. Since September 2019, she has been the director of the Goethe-Institut in Budapest.
 

Since it was founded in 1991, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg has become one of the world’s leading film academies. Around 250 films covering a range of genres are created by teams of students each year. Several won prizes at film festivals. The overriding objective of the program is to prepare students in the best possible way for a successful career in the film and media industries.
 

Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) is one of the three faculties of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU, FAMU, HAMU) and the fifth oldest film school in Europe. Its students' films are recognized with dozens of awards at film festivals around the world every year. FAMU's study programs combine both practical and theoretical approaches, thanks to which students acquire a comprehensive set of skills and knowledge needed to work in all professions of film, television, photography and new media.
 

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural, social and political life in our nation. Our cultural and educational programmes encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility. We are partners for all who actively engage with Germany and its culture, working independently and without political ties.