The International Jury of the 28th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas will be joint. The President of the Jury will be by Leila Hatami, Iranian Francophone and Francophile actress, winner of Silver Bear in Berlin for “A Separation” by Ashgar Faradhi, Iranian film with million admissions in France.
The other members are, Suha Arraf, screenwriter of The Bride Syrienne and The Lemon Trees, director of Villa Touma (Palestine), Zig Dulay, director, Cyclo d’or Vesoul 2018 for Baggage (Philippines), and Yerlan Nurmukhambetov, director of The Horse Thieves – Road of Time and Walnut Tree awarded at Vesoul 2016, (Kazakhstan). The International Jury awards three prizes: Le Cyclo d´Or (offered by the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), the Grand Prix du Jury and the Prix du Jury (offered by the Departmental Council of Haute-Saône).
6 other juries will judge the 17 films of the fiction and documentary competitions, presented in international, European or French premieres.
The Marc Haaz Jury (in memory of the technical director of the VIFFAC, tragically deceased at the age of 33, on July 30), made up of young directors, will award the Marc Haaz prize to a young director:
President: Kavich Neang, Cambodian director of White Building; members: Zahra Akhlaqi, Afghan director in exile of The Inanity, and Jung Won-hee, Korean director of Doom Doom.
The NETPAC Jury (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) :
President: Qasi Abdur Rahim, Indian director of the Imagineindia Festival; members: Ghassem Hosseini, Afghan director in exile, Watanabe Kazutaka, Japanese producer.
They award the NETPAC award.
The Critics’ Jury:
President: Houda Ibrahim, journalist specializing in the Arab world at RFI; members: Ogoulbibi Amanniyazova, freelance journalist, specialist in Central Asia, Christophe Maulavé, critic for Ecran noir.
They award the price of criticism.
The Inalco Jury:
Jean-Michel Butel, Tajamul Faqiri-Choisy, Babak Inanlu, Mathilde Pelletier: teachers and students of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations make up this jury.
It awards the Inalco prize as well as the Inalco “coup de cœur”.
The high school student jury:
Created in 2007, as part of the “Lycée Edouard Belin: from the FICA de Vesoul to the Cannes Film Festival” project, it is awarded the High School Jury Prize. It is chaired by Jeanne Echilley, Juliette Fargher and Sullyvan Demeilliez, final year students at the Edouard Belin high school in Vesoul. They are surrounded by around 40 members.
The Young Jury:
Created in 2000, conceived as a school of the gaze, the Youth Jury is chaired by Antoine Raffin, a student in Première at the Lycée des Haberges de Vesoul. It is made up of seventy middle school, high school and college students from Haute-Saône who will award the Young Jury Prize offered by the Agglomeration Community of Vesoul.
The public is also called upon to vote for the film in competition for which they fell in love. The fictional feature film audience award, offered by the City of Vesoul, and the documentary audience award, offered by the Agglomeration Community of Vesoul, are awarded during the Closing Ceremony on Tuesday February 8, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. at the Edwige Feuillère Theater in Vesoul.
The link to the FICA 2022 trailer, online on YouTube
