JUDGES

Dương Diệu Linh is a Vietnamese writer-director known for her whimsical blend of magical realism, comedy, and body horror. Her feature debut, Don't Cry, Butterfly, won the iWONDERFULL Grand Prix and the Most Innovative Film Award at Venice Critics' Week 2024. Her career has been supported by notable international screenwriting labs and talent workshops, including Less Is More, Oxbelly, Berlinale Talents, Asian Film Academy, and Locarno Summer Academy.

Srikanth Srinivasan is a film critic and programmer from Bangalore, India. He has been involved in the selection of films at the Berlin Film Festival, the Berlin Critics Week and the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He is the author of two books, Modernism by Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta (Lightcube, New Delhi, 2021) and Nainsukh, the Film: Still Lives, Moving Images (Museum Rietberg Zurich, 2023)

Eiko Mizuno-Gray is the CEO and delegate producer at Loaded Films in Tokyo. She has produced “Ten Years Japan” (executive producer Hirokazu Kore-eda), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “To the Ends of the Earth” and Chie Hayakawa’s “Plan 75” which won the Cannes Caméra d'Or Special Mention in 2022 and was Japan’s official Oscar entry. Her latest production, Hayakawa’s “Renoir”, has been selected in the official competition at Cannes 2025.