Jury President to the Forward Future Section
Pema Tseden is a Tibetan director, screenwriter and author. His published works include Temptation, Holy Stones, Quietly Chiseled, I Ran Over a Sheep and Orgyan’s Teetch. His works have received numerous literature awards and have been translated into different languages and published globally. His films include The Silent Holy Stones, The Search, Old Dog, Tharlo, Jinpa and Balloon. From his realistic, meticulous portrayal of his native land, people have a new understanding of Tibetan culture. His films have won Best Screenplay Award at Venice International Film Festival, Best Pictures Awards at Brooklyn Film Festival and Tokyo FILMeX Festival, Best Pictures Award at Vesoul Asian Film Festival, Best Screenplay at Chicago International Film Festival and dozens of other awards.
Jury to the Forward Future Section
Corinne Bopp lives and works in Paris, France. Graduate of the top national film school La Fémis, she worked with internationally known artistic director and curator Marie-Pierre Duhamel-Muller (Top French International Documentary Film Festival Cinéma du réel), with various production companies (Pathé TV, Paris Première) as producer and for the Cultural European public TV channel ARTE as commissioning editor. She accompanies, supports and trains new talents with innovative projects within the artists residency of Association Périphérie which hosted films selected by the top international film festivals of Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Idfa, Visions du reel… and as jury member in International Film Festivals such as Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, La Rochelle, Filmer à tout prix in Brussels, Festival des Films de Femmes in Créteil. She is the artistic director of the International Documentary Film Festival Les Rencontres du cinéma documentaire; member of commissions for financial support within CNC - French National Film Center and teacher in Paris-Cité University.
Jury to the Forward Future Section
Li Miao, production designer and costume designer,graduated from Communication University Of China In 2004. Representative films include "Home Coming", "Nice View", "Moon Man", "A Writer's Odyssey", "Dying to Survive", and "Detective Chinatown". He has been shortlisted for Golden Rooster Award, The Asian Film Award and other foreign and domestic film awards for many times. In 2022, he won the best production designer of The 35th Golden Rooster Award by the film "Moon Man".
Jury to the Forward Future Section
Qi Xi is an acclaimed Chinese actress at home and abroad. She starred “Sang Qi” in the film Mystery, which was nominated for “Un Certain Regard” section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, and won Best Newcomer award in the 7th Asian Film Awards and Best New Actress award in the 13th Chinese Film Media Awards. She starred “Shen Moli” in the film So Long, My Son, which was nominated in the main competition section of the 69th Berlinale. She Starred “Lin Tong” in The Calming, which won CICAE art cinema award of the 70th Berlinale Forum section, and she won Actress of the Year award in the 15th Chinese Youth Film Week. Starring “Guan Wei” in Before Next Spring, she was nominated for the Best Actress award of the 17th Chang Chun Film Festival. Starring “Wang Chunmei” in Nice View, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award in the 36th Hundred Flowers Award and won Best Supporting Actress award in the 35th Golden Rooster Award.
Jury to the Forward Future Section
Koji Fukada is a young Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. His film works are highly acclaimed internationally, and he is one of the representative figures of Japanese contemporary art directors. His film Harmonium (2016) won the Prix du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section of the 69th Cannes Film Festival. A Girl Missing (2019) was nominated for the Golden Leopard award in the 72nd Locarno International Film Festival. The Real Thing (2020) was nominated in the 73rd Cannes Film festival. His latest work Love Life (2022) was nominated for the Golden Lion award of the 79th Venice International Film Festival. On May 2018, he was granted Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Ministry of Culture; and on 2022, he won Akira Kurosawa Award in the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival.