Writer, children’s pedagogue, art teacher, speech therapist. A long-time academic lecturer at the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. Author of articles and monographs on the development of children’s and young people’s creativity and the bestselling series of Pucio’s adventures, honored with awards from the Committee for Children’s Rights and the “Good Pattern” Competition. Currently, she passionately combines the role of a mother with writing and developing the Pucio brand and co-creating a film series of the same name (production by Ego Film, in production). Together with her son, she carefully looks at film productions for children, trying to find valuable ones that can be good entertainment and support for development.

Director, screenwriter, animator and comic book creator. Creator of award-winning short animated films: Headless, Mouse, Penguin, Splinter. He worked at Digital Domain in Los Angeles, where he co-created animation for the films I, Robot, Æon Flux and a one-minute film for Disney. In 2004, he led a group of animators at Prana Studios in Mumbai on the production of film inserts for the game Fight Club. The main animator in Kamil Polak’s film Świteź. Together with Tomasz Leśniak and Jakub Tarkowski, he co-directed and animated a full-length adaptation of Rafał Skarżycki and Tomasz Leśniak’s comic book Jerzy the Hedgehog. Since 2011, he has been associated with the Warsaw-based Human Film studio (formerly Human Ark). Screenwriter and director of the full-length film Diplodocus, inspired by Tadeusz Baranowski’s comics. Author of the graphic novel Pan Żarówka i Fungae, with illustrations by Tomasz Leśniak.

Journalist, radio and television presenter. Co-host, together with Anna Serdiukow, of the program Filmozgrani in Chillizet. Journalist of the Dobrego Dnia programme in TVP3 Warsaw and host of the talk-show Spacerowym Okiem. Film voice-over and dubbing actor in The Shaman King, Dragon Ball and Harley Quinn. He also voiced characters in cinematic films – The Lego Adventure, Teen Titans: Action!, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, among others, as well as in the video games God of War 3 and Fallout 3.

Head of the education department of Zachęta – National Gallery of Art. PhD, assistant professor at Journalism at USWPS. He cooperates with the Institute for Public Space Research of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, specialized in visual communication. She had worked with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw and the Museum of Sculpture in Królikarnia. Long-term collaborator of TVP Kultura. Author of several articles published in scientific and critical journals, as well as exhibition catalogues. Book editor and a member of AICA and ICOM.

Book illustrator and creator of many children’s books, published in Poland and abroad. Her works, often inspired by folklore, are appreciated by the jury of prestigious international competitions and shown at group and individual exhibitions. The books she illustrated are included in the Treasure List of the Children’s Book Museum, the White Ravens list of the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich and the honorary international IBBY list. Co-creator of the popular series “Basia”, written by Zofia Stanecka.

Journalist and film critic, writing for “Vogue Polska” and “Newsweek”, among others. Creator of the popular video-podcast “Kanapa Knapa”, in which he invites creators of culture, especially cinema, to casual but also in-depth conversations. Privately – father of two-year-old Leon, a ruthless reviewer of his first film screenings.

Swedish film director known for her work on JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – The Riddle of the Scorpion (2022) and JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – The Lost Mascot (2024). The Riddle of the Scorpion won the Audience Award at the festival. This year, Tina returns to the festival as a jury member. Her specialty lies in telling stories that both scare and touch audiences, with a great dose of humor. In addition to directing films, Tina is also an author of children’s books and creates radio and TV programs, bringing her storytelling and creative vision to a variety of mediums.

Producer, production manager and actor. His long education in business ended with a Master class at the German-French Film Academy in Baden-Württemberg and La Fémis – Paris. He graduated with a Masters in International Film Production. With Pokromski Studio he produced numerous films and tv series, among them Fuck For Forest, Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Too Old for fairy tales. 

Mikolaj Pokromski is a member of Polish-, German- and European Film Academy.

Director and screenwriter, graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Film Directing Department of the Film School in Łódź. After graduation, he completed an internship on the set of Roman Polański’s Rosemary’s Baby at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, worked as a second director on films by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Roman Załuski, as well as the Danish director Soren Cragh Jacobsen. He has made dozens of documentaries and feature films, including the first Polish SF film based on Stanisław Lem’s short stories Inquest of Pilot Pirx, and the horror film The Wolf. Creator of the childrens’ fantasy film Odlotowe Wakacje, which was one of the first Polish films with CGI.

A student of Tadeusz Czacki’s High School in Warsaw. He acted in such films as “Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz”, “David and the Elves”, “The Hero” and “The Peasants”. Nominated for the Polish Film Awards Eagles 2020 in the Discovery of the Year category. Member of the Polish Film Academy. In 2022, he was also one of the members of the Jury awarding the European Film Academy Young Audience Award.

My name is Ewelina and I’m very interested in fashion, drawing and dancing. In my free time, I read comics and watch movies, but I hate swimming, although I like going to the pool. I also love animals and my dream is to have a snake or a lizard in the future.

Hey, I’m Hania, I’m in my third year of high school. I’m interested in art and acting. I love watching movies and series. What I like the most in my free time is skating.

My name is Nina and I have been interested in culture and art in general since I was little. My passion are movies and series. Apart from films, I am also fascinated by world literature and I write poems myself (although not in Polish, but it still gives me a lot of pleasure). I participate in the Young Horizons festival every year, so I am very happy to be part of the jury. I hope it will be a great and productive time and I can’t wait to meet new people with whom I share similar interests.

Hi, I’m Zosia and I’m 12 years old. What excites me is that for 3 years I have been watching young horizons with great curiosity, and now I have a chance to see it from the other side and to grade what I watch. I’m very interested in film, mainly documentaries, and I’m most excited about discussing what I’m going to see. Discussing different opinions is very interesting for me, because I can see things from a different perspective that I would not even think about in the first place. Last year I participated in the jury program of the Let’s Doc festival. I really like sports, running and wakeboarding, but I’m not interested in results, only pleasure and satisfaction.

Psychologist, speaker and promoter of science. author of the podcast O Zmierzchu. Speaker and promoter of science.

Psychologist, psychotraumatologist, crisis interventionist and specialist in counteracting domestic violence. A graduate of clinical psychology at the SWPS University in Warsaw. The main coordinator of the nationwide preventive program “Hour for YOUNG HEADS”, implemented as part of the UNAWEZA Foundation’s project “YOUNG HEADS. Opening up about mental health”. Member of the team for cooperation with NGOs at the Ministry of National Education and the Council of Experts on the Peer Support project of the Foundation for the Development of the Education System. Author of articles in Newsweek Psychologia, where she popularizes psychological knowledge and a practical view of the challenges of parenting and mental health of young people. Privately, she is a mother of three children, co-author of the podcast Między Nami Mamami, which she hosts with her adult daughter, also a psychologist.

Cultural manager and cultural expert. Deputy Director at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, responsible for education and dissemination. Originator and long-term coordinator of nationwide educational projects, such as the Film Knowledge and Social Communication Olympics, Skrytykuj.pl and Filmoteka Szkolna. She is passionate about creating a space to support the development of young people and discover their potential, especially through participatory activities.

A PHD degree of Art Studies, graduate of Film Studies and American Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Speaker and film educator with extensive experience. For many years she had worked at the “Pod Baranami” cinema in Krakow, where she had coordinated the Education Young Horizons and Young Ambassadors programs. Member of the Film Educators Team. She runs a Facebook fanpage called “Reality Bites” and “Seriale na raz” programme at Radio Krakow.

Director of JEF, the youth film and game organisation in Flanders, Belgium. Former business director of  the European Youth Film Festival (Het Jeugdfilmfestival) and director of a cultural centre in Antwerp. She had worked at the University of Antwerp doing research on museums for contemporary art and the audiovisual field. Member of the board of directors of oKo (Flemish Federation of Employers in the arts sector), Sociare (sociocultural employers federation) and the experimental film festival Courtisane. In 2019 she finished the LinC leadership programme from the University of Utrecht and Antwerp Management School.

Head of programming at BUFF Malmö Film Festival in Sweden and also film buyer for a distribution company TUFF. His proffesional experience includes music, theatre and art projects. He graduated in arts administration in 2001. For several years he had worked in various positions at the Swedish Film Institute and the City of Malmö Culture Department, before starting at BUFF in 2009.