Jury & Organizing Committee
Jury members
Eldar Shengelaia
Head of the jury - film director, People's artist of Georgia, Georgian State and Rustaveli Prize laureate, many International Film Festival Prize winner.
Vladimir Naumov
jury VIP member -- film director, people's artist of the USSR, President of the National Academy of Film Sciences and Arts of Russia, many International film festival winner.
Natalya Belokhvostikova
jury VIP member -- Soviet and Russian film actress. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Winner of two State Prizes of the USSR (1971, 1985). She played the main and supporting roles in more than forty films, some of them became film hits.
Merab Kokochashvili
jury VIP member - film director, People's artist of Georgia, Rustaveli Prize laureate, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University professor; many International Film Festival prize winner. Georgian film critics considered his film “Big Green Valley" (1967) the best Georgian film of the XX century.
Victoria Belopolskaya
Film critic, program Director of the Artdocfest documentary film festival, programmer of the Flahertiana international documentary film festival, member of the selection Committee of the Kinotavr Russian open film festival. She was a member of the jury of international film festivals in Tampere (Finland) and Warsaw (Poland), as well as a member of the jury of FIPRESCI on film festivals in Oberhausen, Krakow, Sydney, Mumbai.
GORAN DUJAKOVIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Born in 1966, film director. Author of several short documentary and feature films, and two feature-length documentary films. Founder and director of the International Festival of Animated Film BANJALUKA, which has been held since 2008
Levan Tutberidze
Film director, actor, Tbilisi State Theatre and cinema University associate professor, member of the Supervisory Board of the "Georgian film development center", many International Film Festival prize winner.
Marina Kereselidze
Film critic, President of the Cinema Heritage Protection Association, Member of the International Federation of film critics FIPRESCI-Georgia, Member of the Presidium of the Federation of Sports Film&TV of Georgia
Davit Okitashvili
Art-manager President of the Chamber of Culture of Georgia, President of the Union of Art Workers. Teaches at the University of theater and cinema of Georgia; Head of Events Department at the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sport of Georgia.
Eldar Mdinaradze
Film director, producer, Artistic director at the TV channel "Imedi". Producer of up to 70 TV and animated films, Prize winner of many International Film Festivals.
Valeriy Gasparyan
Armenian script writer, journalist. In 2003 he was awarded by State Premium of Armenia. He is a member of Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalusts (FIPRESCI) and Armenian National Film Academy.
Maria Lappalainen
Screenwriter and film director from Finland. Maria's short films and documentaries, participated in many international film festivals.
Mark Zviguski
Director of the Museum of Turguеniev in France, lecturer, graduate of the Director 's Workshop of the Moscow Film Academy (VGIK), author and director of the famous play about relations between Ivan Turgueniev and Polina Viardo (Le Chant des Frênes). Member of the UNESCO French Clubs’ Network, co-founder, and vice-president of the French Organizing Committee of the Delphic Games since 2019.
Festival Organizing Committee
Ramaz (Buba) Khotivari
კინორეჟისორი, სცენარისტი, პროდიუსერი; საქართველოს კინოაკადემიის პრეზიდენტი.
Koba Tskhakaia
რეჟისორი, მწერალი, პროდიუსერი, ფესტივალის "დიოგენე 2020" საორგანიზაციო კომიტეტის წევრი.
Soso Mtchedlishvili
სოსო მჭედლიშვილი, კინოდრამატურგი, პროდიუსერი, ფესტივალის "დიოგენე 2020" საორგანიზაციო კომიტეტის წევრი.
Juka Mitaishvili
კინომცოდნე; საქართველოს კინოაკადემიის საზოგადოებასთან ურთიერთობის მენეჯერი.
Tamila Khutsishvili
საქართველოს კინოაკადემიის ოფისის მენეჯერი; კოორდინატორი.
Givi Bolkvadze
მულტიმედია, საინფორმაციო და ვებ ტექნოლოგიების მენეჯერი.