This year’s RAFF jury has three members – a director, a journalist and an actor. The laureate of the recent Cannes Film Festival, Nebojša Slijepčević, who was awarded with the Palme d’Or for the short film “ The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”, the respected and awarded HRT foreign policy journalist Elizabeta Gojan, and the Croatian actor with a Danish address, Zlatko Burić Kićo, who the year before last won the award of the European Film Academy, the so-called the European Oscar, for the best European actor, for his role in the film “Triangle of Sadness”.
Nebojša Slijepčević graduated in film direction from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He started his career as one of the authors of the acclaimed television series Direkt. He directed two successful feature-length documentaries (Gangster of Love and Srbenka), as well as numerous short documentaries and feature films shown at the world’s most important documentary film festivals, where they won more than 40 awards. It was awarded four times at the Sarajevo Film Festival, twice at ZagrebDox, and it is worth mentioning the Doc Alliance Selection Award and entry into the shortlist for the European Film Award with the film Srbenka. For the same film, he received the annual Croatian state award Vladimir Nazor for the best film achievement in 2018. He was nominated three times for the Prix Europa award for his television films. He works as a lecturer and mentor at Restart’s Documentary Film School. This year, he won the Palme d’Or for short feature film at the Cannes Film Festival, for his film “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”.
Elizabeta Gojan was born in 1961 in Banja Luka – Bosnia and Herzegovina, she is a phonetician and general linguist from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She worked at Radio Velika Gorica – from 1981 – 1989, as a radio program host. She started working at Croatian Radio and Television in 1988, in a permanent position since 1991. At HRT, she was a journalist for “Zagrebačka panorama” in 1988-1990, then editor and presenter of “Hrvatska danas” in 1990-1991, editor and presenter HTV News 1991 – 1992, reporter from the battlefield during the Homeland War 1992 – 1995, editor of Dnevnik HTV 1993 – 1995, editor – commentator – LIVE EVENT: Washington Agreement 1994, bombing of Yugoslavia 1999., the arrest of Slobodan Milošević in 2001, the attack on the USA on September 11, 2001, the presidential elections in the USA in 2004 and 2012, the inauguration of Ivo Josipović on February 18, 2010, the inauguration of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on February 15, 2015, the royal wedding – Kate Middleton and Prince William on April 29, 2011, royal wedding – Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on May 19, 2018, commentator on Foreign Policy of HRT in 1993 – today, editor and host of the talk show “Damin Gambit” 2012-2015. , author of documentary films – “Bosnia – the land that doesn’t exist”, “Sadness of India and the splendour of Sri Lanka”, and reporter from the battlefields of Macedonia, Kosovo, and Ukraine. Elizabeta Gojan was also the president of the Croatian Journalists’ Association branch at Croatian Television from 2008 to 2015, and she is the commissioner of the Trade Union of Croatian Journalists and media professionals at Croatian Television from 2016 to today. She is the recipient of the annual award of the Croatian Radio and Television in 2000, and the Croatian Journalists’ Association’s “Journalist of the Year” award in 2015.
Zlatko Burić Kićo is a Croatian and Danish film and theater actor born in 1953. He is one of the founders of the alternative Zagreb theater group Kugla glumište. After the breakup of the group, he went to Denmark. He got his professional breakthrough with a prominent role in Nicholas Winding Refn’s Dealer trilogy (1996), followed by a series of film and TV projects, including Stephen Frears’ thriller Sweet, Dirty Things (2002). He has played a number of notable roles in Croatian films, including Hana Jušić’s Quit Staring at My Plate (Venice 2016 – FEDEORA Award). He played one of his world-famous roles in Ruben Östlund’s Cannes hit Triangle of Sadness (Palme d’Or 2022), for which he was awarded the 2022 European Film Academy Award.
