In the International Competition, a five-member jury awards the Hamburg Short Film Award, endowed with 3,000 euros, and the Deframed Award, endowed with 2,000 euros, to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way. It also awards the Hamburg candidate for the "European Short Film" award category of the European Film Academy. The Jury 2024 is:

Manuel Abramovich is a filmmaker and artist born in Buenos Aires in 1987 and based in Berlin. His work explores different ways of staging intimacy. His films have been awarded worldwide, among them Blue Boy (Berlinale Silver Bear and Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2019), Soldier (Berlinale 2017), and Pornomelancolia (Best Cinematography at San Sebastian). He was a member of the Berlinale Talents Selection Committee in 2019 and 2020 and is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie. Besides his work as a director, he is a film mentor and a teacher at several film schools and universities. Since 2021, he has been directing »DIP: Documentary, Intimacy, and Staging«, a one-year online program for international artists and filmmakers. He is currently finishing his fifth feature film Croma.

Aboozar Amini trained as a visual artist at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and received his Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking from London Film School. He is an alumnus of IDFA Academy, Berlinale Talent Campus, Cannes Cinéfondation La Résidence and a fellow at Akademie der Künste in Berlin. His works include video art, documentaries, and fiction aimed at orchestrating and transcending the facades of reality in order to creep under its lingering surface, inviting us to explore a heightened, nuanced perception of the world.

Flóra Anna Buda was born and raised in an artistic environment in the outskirts of Budapest. Her studies in fashion, her love for drawing and interest in storytelling led her to animation. Her MOME graduation film called Entropia premiered at the 69th Berlinale and won the 33th Teddy Award. She became an intern at Miyu Productions where later she made her first professional film 27. The film had its premiere at Festival de Cannes where it won the Palme d’Or for short films and went on to win the Crystal du Court Métrage at Annecy Festival. Currently, she is developing new projects. One of her main goals is to keep searching for new ways of creating diverse universes, telling honest stories and finding a way to create an artistic project out of her recent interest, with an open mind.

Lucía Salas is an Argentinian writer, programmer, and filmmaker based in Spain. She is a co-editor of the film magazine La vida útil, programmer at Punto de Vista and Woche der Kritik, teacher in the curatorial studies program at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. She collaborated with Con Los Ojos Abiertos, Jugend ohne Film, Viennale, IFFR’s Critic’s Choice, DocumentaMadrid, DocLisboa, Margenes, among others. She has co-directed the non-fiction feature Implantación (2016) and several short films together with LaSiberia Cine. She studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires, has an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts (thanks to a Fulbright scholarship) and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Communications program in the cinema department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Greta Snider has made films since discovering the art form at Antioch College in Ohio, and promptly moved to San Francisco to join a thriving low-budget experimental film scene, where she continues to make, screen, and teach about cinema. In her work, Snider utilizes a combination of original and archival material to create nonfiction art cinema of a personal nature. Her single screen films on 16mm lean heavily on the creative use of montage, interweaving the personal and historical in a number of short essay films. Her stereoscopic performances and installations take the materiality of film and family photos, to reshape themes of memory, loss, and personal histories in a more intimate, affective experience. She has screened in museums throughout the world, and also in bars, alleyways, and once, at an all-night international rave party in a penthouse in Tokyo’s district Shibuya. Snider teaches experimental filmmaking at San Francisco State University, where she is faculty advisor to The Archive Project.