• The jury for the International Official Section will comprise Italian producer Francesca Andreoli, French composer Grégoire Hetzel, programmer and writer Dennis Lim, Spanish filmmaker Elena Manrique and Uruguayan-Spanish director Federico Veiroj

The Official Section will feature an international jury comprising five renowned professionals from different areas of the film industry. Italian producer Francesca Andreoli, who has worked on films by Alice Rohrwacher and Maura Delpero; French composer Grégoire Hetzel, who has composed over a hundred soundtracks and is a regular collaborator with filmmakers such as Arnaud Desplechin (Un conte de Noël), Mathieu Amalric (La Chambre bleue) and Catherine Corsini (La Belle Saison), and who also composed the score for Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies; the programmer and writer Dennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival; the Spanish filmmaker and producer Elena Manrique, director of The Party’s Over, winner of the Pilar Miró Award at the 69th SEMINCI Film Festival; and the Uruguayan-Spanish filmmaker Federico Veiroj, winner of the Time of History Grand Prize at the last edition for Face to Face, will decide the winners of the main competition.

Meeting Point jury will comprise Spanish filmmaker Gabriel Azorín, director of Anoche conquisté Tebas, winner of the FUNDOS Award at the 70th SEMINCI; Mexican programmer Maximiliano Cruz, currently artistic director of FICUNAM; and Portuguese filmmaker Leonor Noivo, co-founder of Terratreme Films and director of Bulakna, winner of the Alchemies Grand Prize at last year’s festival. In the Time of History section, Spanish filmmaker, lecturer and researcher Alejandro Alvarado Jódar; Portuguese programmer Cíntia Gil; and Romanian director Vlad Petri will judge the films in the section. Alvarado co-directed Caja de resistencia with Concha Barquero, which won the DOC Award at SEMINCI. Spain at the 69th edition, whilst Petri won first prize in the Time of History section with Between Revolutions.

Entries for Alchemies will be judged by the director and artist Anna Cornudella Castro, whose debut feature film, The Human Hibernation, was screened at the Berlinale and SEMINCI; Cyril Neyrat, film critic and artistic director of FIDMarseille; and Aura Satz, a London-based artist who works with film, sound, performance and sculpture.

The Short Film jury comprises Polish programmer Aleksandra Ławska, associated with the Short Waves festival; Iranian-Dutch filmmaker Sara Rajaei, whose short film City of Poets won the EFA Award for Best European Short Film; and Jorge Rivero, director of the Aguilar de Campoo Festival, who has extensive experience in the programming and promotion of short films.

The FIPRESCI Prize, awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics, will go to the film chosen by journalists and critics Laura Blanco and Bettina Hirsch, and the Egyptian critic, programmer, producer and script editor Rasha Hosny, a programmer at the Cairo Film Festival and a contributor to Tribeca.

The Green Spike Award, dedicated to cinema committed to sustainability, will have a jury comprising researcher Íñigo Capellán Pérez, a member of Ecologistas en Acción; Sara Delgado Domínguez, an environmental scientist and physiotherapist who develops projects in the circular economy and environmental conservation; and Aketza Sánchez, founder of Goazenup, an association that promotes marine therapies and environmental awareness.

The Rainbow Spike Award, which recognises films featuring LGBTIQA+ content, will be judged by Sofía Corral Alonso, sound engineer and filmmaker; Aritz Dendategi, a member of the Sebastiane Award committee; and Daniel Hernández Hompanera, filmmaker and contributor to the Cinhomo film festival. The Pilar Miró Award for Best New Spanish Director will be judged by cultural journalist Lucas Barquero, film critic Fernando Bernal and journalist María Juesas, who specialises in films and TV series.

The Youth Jury will comprise nine participants, divided between the Official Selection, Punto de Encuentro and Short Films: María Cabo, Pablo Castillo and Rodrigo Minguela; Alejandro de Miguel, Samuel Díaz and Lucía Rey; and Laura Cardeli, Judith Castañeda and Pablo Simón, respectively.