The Jury Award in the German Competition, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by a three-member jury. The Jury 2024 is:
Toby Ashraf works as a curator, moderator and film critic. He has written for taz, Sissy and numerous other publications and moderates film and literature talks for the Berlinale and the international literature festival berlin, among others. In 2015 he won the Siegfried Kracauer Prize for Best Film Criticism. In 2014, he founded the Berlin Art Film Festival, which he curated and directed independently until 2018. Toby Ashraf has curated film series for the Goethe Institutes of North America and Calcutta, among others, and was part of the advisory selection committee of the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2022. In 2023 he was artistic co-director of the FIRST STEPS Awards.
Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck works as a filmmaker, videoartist and film curator, and creates videoprojections for theater, opera, dance and music concerts as well as video installations for exhibitions and museums. She teaches at art schools and has been working for film festivals as a programmer, presenter (Berlinale Shorts, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Filmwinter Stuttgart, Pictoplasma) and member of the jury for more than 25 years. She co-runs the shorts/ salon, and since 2019 she is head of Berlinale Shorts, the official competition for short films at the Berlinale.
Gerald Weber studied history, geography, philosophy and film studies in Vienna and Barcelona. He is a founding member of »Projektor: Diskussionsforum Film und Neue Medien« and was co-organizer of the international symposium »film[SUBJECT] theory« (1996). Since 1997 he has been working for sixpackfilm in the distribution of Austrian documentary, short and experimental films. As part of sixpackfilm, he has organized numerous film-related events and presentations of Austrian and international film and video art in Austria and abroad. Weber also gives lectures, moderates film talks and works as a curator and journalist.
