This year, the dedicated festival advisors at FilmFestival Cottbus 2024 will advise the programme department on Turkey, Azerbaijan and Central Asia. They are also curating an exciting film series about Czech female directors and the section Heimat | Domownja | Domizna.
Başak Emre is a producer and festival director. She was a member of the Ankara Film Festival board from 1992 to 1995. From 2006 to 2016, she worked as the World Cinema Coordinator of Adana Golden Boll Film Festival and from 2019 to 2023 as the Artistic Director of Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Since 2000, she has been the director of Festival On Wheels, a travelling film festival that visits three to four cities in Turkey and abroad every year. She has been the coordinator of numerous Turkish film weeks within the framework of film festivals in 26 countries and has sat on the juries of international festivals.
In 2001, she was the production coordinator for the film The Confession by Zeki Demirkubuz. In 2008, she produced the feature film Tales from Kars, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. She produced the feature film Black and White (2010), directed by Ahmet Boyacioglu. She is the executive producer of Inside (2012), the producer of Nausea (2015) and the production coordinator of Ember (2016), all directed by Zeki Demirkubuz. In 2018, she produced the feature film The Smell of Money.
She has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2021 and a board member since 2024.
Originally from Kazakhstan, Yuliya Kim is a producer based in Paris.
She started her career in 2011 at Kazakhfilm as International Cooperation Manager and was involved in the Eurasia Film Festival.
In 2015, she founded East Wind Production to promote international collaborations and co-productions with Kazakhstan.
Since 2019 Yuliya is Executive Director of the Almaty Film Festival and Artistic Director of the international film camp POST SPACE.
Daniel Kubik was born and raised in Lusatia. He studied media and cultural studies in Potsdam and Cottbus from 2009 to 2016 and combined his interest in film and Sorbian culture during an internship at the Serbski institut / Sorbian Institute (Cottbus branch).
The teacher and media scientist with Sorbian roots now lives and works in Lusatia again and also works as a curator for the Heimat I Domownja I Domizna section at the FFC. Member of the Sorbian-German film network Łužycafilm Lectures on Sorbian film history for the School of Lower Sorbian Language and Culture (autumn 2023)’
‘I was delighted to receive the enquiry at the beginning of the year asking if I could imagine taking over the curation of the home section. In January, I completed my extra-occupational training and so it was possible for me to work for the FFC on the side in the future. I am connected to the festival through the impressive film experiences of past years as a guest and the previous collaboration in 2017 as part of the symposium on Sorbian film heritage. After viewing and selecting films and writing catalogue texts, I am now looking forward to the highlight of my work - the festival week. I'm particularly looking forward to the discussions with the Lusatian filmmakers after the film screenings.’
Lenka Tyrpáková is the programme director, festival consultant and artistic director of the Finále Festival in Pilsen.
From 2005 to 2023, she was a member of the selection committee of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and programme designer for films from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Since 2008 she has worked as programme director for the Prague Shorts Film Festival. In 2023 she became artistic director of the Czech National Finále Festival in Pilsen, the largest competition showcase of national film in the Czech Republic.
Recently she joined the team of Riga IFF as a curator of SHORT RIGA Test Screenings. She co-operates with several other film festivals and is a member of the European Film Academy.
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