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Begaly Nargozu, a director from Kyrgyzstan, was born on February 5, 1961. In 1983, he graduated from the journalism department of the national university and immediately joined the Kyrgyzfilm film studio as an assistant film director. For a long time, he worked at the film studio in various positions, studying filmmaking step by step. In 2023, he completed work on the film Mountain Wagtail as a director and producer. In 2024, the film Mountain Wagtail won the main prize Golden Tree of the VI Kimolos International Film Festival in Greece. Then he won the main prize of the international film festival in Nice, France, the Prize for the best full-length feature film at the 78th International Film Festival in Solerno, Italy, the main prize of the Brittany International Film Festival in Locranon, France and others.
Jury Members
JOHN KASSIS
(GREECE)
He graduated in 1995 from the Papantonopoulou Film School — recognized by the Ministry of Culture — and has been working as a photographer since 1992, as well as a film director.
KARLOS ALASTRUEY
(SPAIN)
Karlos Alastruey is a Basque and Bahá’í filmmaker from Bilbao, based in Navarre. He started making films in 2003. He has created critically-acclaimed films that have been screened worldwide at more than 100 international film festivals and earned 20 awards. His work deals with the human identity, the condition of woman and the teenage viewpoint (in his words, “the most sincere age in a human life”). He creates films with surreal, fantasy and experimental elements.