Check out the 2025 Selection Committee members!
We are pleased to welcome Emilie Poirier, who joins the team and will be your main contact for short and medium-length films.
View the biographies of the selection committee members here:
SELECTION COMMITTEE
ÀLVARO ARROBA
Álvaro Arroba is Spanish and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has been working as a programmer for International Independent Film Festival BAFICI since 2017. He has written about cinema and film festival chronicles in newspapers such as La Vanguardia, El diario de Sevilla, Crítica de la Argentina, and in magazines such as SoFilm, Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound and Cinema Scope. He has edited and written books dedicated to directors Francisco Regueiro, Claire Denis and also about contemporary Argentine cinema. He recently founded a publishing house, Serie Gong and published novels by Agustina Bessa-Buis and essays by Luc Moullet, Pascale Bodet and Paulino Viota.
HERVÉ AUBRON
The former editor-in-chief of Magazine littéraire, Hervé Aubron is a film critic for Cahiers du cinéma. He was a long-time cinema professor at Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle University and is now an instructor and lecturer in theaters and for various institutions (French Cinematheque, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Forum des images…). He has written essays on David Lynch and Pixar studios as well as two books about Werner Herzog, in collaboration with Emmanuel Burdeau.
CAROLINE MALEVILLE
After various experiences in distribution and film institutions, Caroline Maleville joined the French Cinematheque in 2005. As programming manager since 2009, she has been regularly organizing events dedicated to contemporary innovative filmmaking. Beyond her collaborations with the Locarno Film Festival, the FEMA La Rochelle and Entrevues in Belfort, she is also a member of several script reading committees all over France and for Arte France Cinéma.
ÉMILIE POIRIER
Émilie Poirier is currently the head of short film programming at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal. She is also an independent curator, moderator and writer. From 2021 to 2023, she was a member of the preselection committee for the Busan International Short Film Festival.
GABRIELA TRUJILLO
A writer, essayist and film historian, Gabriela Trujillo worked for many years at "la Cinémathèque française" before becoming director of "la Cinémathèque de Grenoble". She now devotes her time to teaching at various institutions and writing.
MUYAN WANG
Muyan Wang is a Chinese film critic based in Paris. Since 2012, he has been a correspondent for several Chinese media outlets, such as The Paper. He is a contributor to American magazine Film Comment and occasionally writes for French media. Also a French-Chinese translator, he has translated interviews with Robert Bresson, Bresson par Bresson.
CONSULTANTS
ALEX DUDOK DE WIT
Alex Dudok de Wit is a journalist and critic who has been writing about animation for over ten years in magazines such as Cartoon Brew, Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, Vulture and Blink Blank. He is the author of the English translation of Hayao Miyazaki's graphic novel Shuna's Journey (2022).
AMÉLIE GARIN-DAVET
Amélie Garin-Davet has programmed retrospectives for various institutions in New York, such as the cultural services of the French Embassy; her program dedicated to Moustapha Alassane was organized with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She also created a partnership between NYU and the institut français to restore several classic African films. In France, she is a member of the committee for the cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde, initiated by Alice Diop. She is also responsible for organizing the international tour of the Panafrican film anthology Tigritudes.
CÍNTIA GIL
From 2012 to 2019, Cíntia Gil directed Doclisboa - International Film Festival, before moving on to head Sheffield DocFest until 2021. In 2022, Cíntia started the programme of screenings and study groups Artistic Differences, at UnionDocs (NY), as a co-curator together with Jenny Miller and Christopher Allen.
Gil has taught seminars, lectures and workshops in different institutions (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico, EICTV in Cuba, HGK Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany…). She has been a member of the executive Board of Apordoc – Associação pelo Documentário, the Portuguese documentary film association since 2015.
MING-JUNG KUO
As Programme Director for Taipei Film Festival (2014-2018), Ming-Jung Kuo carried a balance of showcasing new talent and introducing narrative VR programs as well as celebrating cinema heritage. She launched PAS Taipei in 2015 to help reinforce script development, co-production and sales strategies. She joined the Singapore International Film Festival in 2019, as Artistic Director. Between 2019 and 2021, she was on the selection committee for the Locarno Festival Open Doors.
