We are delighted to announce that the Kosovo Cinematography Center has officially appointed the evaluation juries for the projects submitted in response to the open call for film project funding.

For the categories of: Feature-Length Screenplay Development (fiction, documentary, and animation), Short Fiction Film, Short Documentary Film, Feature-Length Documentary Film, Short Animated Film, Feature-Length Project Development, and Student Short Fiction Film, the jury consists of: Dea Gjinovci, Eneos Çarka, Ibër Deari, Sevdije Kastrati, and Shpëtim Selmani.

DEA GJINOVCI
Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian director-producer based between Paris and Geneva. She has won awards for her short documentary Sans le Kosovo (2017), including the “Best National Film” award at DokuFest. Her debut feature documentary, Wake Up on Mars (2020), won the “Perspectives d’un doc” award at Visions du Réel 2018 and was supported by the Sundance Institute and the Ford Foundation JustFilms. The film premiered virtually at Tribeca and Visions du Réel and was honored with “Best New Talent” at Biografilm 2020 and Zagrebdox 2021.

ENEOS ÇARKA
Eneos Çarka is a media artist, filmmaker, and researcher. His films have been screened at prestigious festivals such as IDFA, HotDocs, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He won the FIPRESCI Award in 2023 for his MFA film The Silence of The Banana Trees and served as a jury member for the IDFA Youth Documentary category in 2022. His first feature-length documentary, Another Day, premiered at IDFA Luminous 2023 and earned a nomination for “Best First Feature.”

IBËR DEARI
Ibër Deari is a director from Kumanovo, North Macedonia. His feature film Everybody Calls Redjo won the “Best Film” award at the Bari International Film Festival (2025). His other films, including Farmer’s Blues, A Long Way Home, and Toka, have been screened and awarded at festivals such as IFFNY, Beach Film Festival, and Kinenova. He also produced and co-directed the documentary Antigona, which was officially selected at Sheffield DocFest 2025.

SEVDIJE KASTRATI-DILL, ASC
Sevdije Kastrati-Dill is a cinematographer from Kosovo, based in Los Angeles. She graduated from the American Film Institute in 2011 and has worked on artistic projects, documentaries, short films, and TV series screened at festivals including Tallinn Black Nights, Toronto Film Festival, Tribeca, and Venice. The films Martesa and Zana represented Kosovo at the Oscars (2018 and 2020). She is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, the European Film Academy, and the International Cinematographers Guild.

SHPËTIM SELMANI
Shpëtim Selmani, born May 16, 1986, is an actor and writer from Kosovo. He has won awards for his stage acting and published literary works including Shënimet e një Grindaveci (2015), Selected Poems 2010-2017 (2017), and the novel Libërthi i Dashurisë (2019), which won the EU Prize for Literature 2020 and has been translated into several languages. For his novel The Ballad of Ant (2022), he received the “Vilenica Crystal” award at Slovenia’s literary festival in 2023. In 2024, the Ministry of Culture named him “Best Actor of the Year.”