Júri / 49ª mostra

A film producer currently living between Istanbul and London. He studied English Literature and Film in Paris and New York. His credits as a producer or assistant director include films by such visionary directors as Steve McQueen, in “Shame” (2011), Todd Solondz, in “Dark Horse” (2011), Wes Anderson, in “Asteroid City” (2023), David Gordon Green, in “Joe” (2013) and in the “Halloween” trilogy (2018, 2021, 2022) , Jim Jarmusch, in “The Dead Don’t Die” (2019) and “Father Mother Sister Brother” (2025, 49th Mostra), Yorgos Lanthimos, in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017) and “The Favourite” (2018), Mira Nair, in “Queen of Katwe” (2016) and David Chase, in “The Many Saints of Newark (2021)”. Fresh off the success of Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” winning the Golden Lion in Venice in 2025, Atilla is developing and producing new films by Sara Driver, Arnaud Desplechin, Todd Solondz and David Gordon Green, for both USA and international markets.

He is an accomplished film and television producer based in Los Angeles. Born in the United Kingdom and raised in Brazil, Dreifuss has worked across the globe on a range of critically acclaimed projects. He holds an MFA in Producing from the American Film Institute. Dreifuss’ career began with the Oscar-nominated “No” (2012, 36th Mostra), directed by Pablo Larraín, a film which won the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. He then produced “Guernica” (2015), by Koldo Serra, “You’ll Never Be Alone” (2016), by Alex Anwandter, which won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale, “Orphans of Eldorado” (2017), by Guilherme Coelho, “Sergio” (2020), by Greg Barker, “All Quiet on the Western Front” (2022, 46th Mostra), by Edward Berger, which won four Academy Awards and seven BAFTA Awards, and the limited series “Ghosts of Beirut” (2023). Dreifuss has served on the jury of numerous international film festivals including the Queer Palm at Cannes, and festivals in Zurich, Santiago and Guadalajara.

Born in Lisbon to a Cape Verdean family and raised in Switzerland. She is the director of “Hanami” (2024), winner of the best emerging director award and a special mention in the first feature competition at Locarno, best film in the National Competition of IndieLisboa, and the jury prize for best feature film at the 48th Mostra. The film was also presented and awarded at several international film festivals, including Chicago, Palm Springs, Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Göteborg and BFI London Film Festival. In 2025, she was invited to the Ingmar Bergman Residency in Sweden, and “Hanami” was included in the retrospective L.A. Rebellion: Then and Now at the Lincoln Center in New York. Her films explore themes such as identity, childhood, memory, and diasporic heritage.

Filmmaker born in Medellín, Colombia, where she currently lives. Her debut film, “Killing Jesus” (2017), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it received the New Directors Special Mention, and the Eroski Youth Award. The film was selected in more than 30 international film festivals and won over 20 awards. Her next project, the feature film “The Kings of the World” (2022, 46th Mostra), won the Golden Shell for Best Film at San Sebastián, where she also received the Signis Award and the Feroz Press Award. The film also won Best Film at the Zurich International Film Festival, the Biarritz Film Festival, among others. Mora directed three episodes of the first season of the Netflix series “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (2024), inspired by the book of the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. She is currently in charge of the second and final installment of the show, expected to be released in 2026.

He is Chief Film Critic for Variety, where he has written nearly two thousand reviews since 2005. From 2014 to 2016, he relocated from Los Angeles to Paris, where he covered the festival circuit, from Monte Carlo to Reykjavik to Cannes, serving on juries at each of those places. He oversees a team of more than a dozen freelancers around the world, assigning and editing film reviews for the publication. He also curates the magazine’s annual 10 Directors to Watch list. Peter’s writing on film has appeared in publications such as Premiere, Life, Creative Screenwriting, IndieWire and The Miami Herald, as well as the books “Agnès Varda: Director’s Inspiration” and “Variety’s The Movie That Changed My Life.” A co-founder of the Animation Is Film Festival, Peter has taught at Chapman University and was knighted by France in the Order of Arts and Letters.