Ten films of over 50 minutes in length, created by young filmmakers, will compete for the Golden Alexander “Dimitri Eipides” and the Silver Alexander Award. The Golden Alexander “Dimitri Eipides” award is accompanied by a €10,000 cash prize. The Silver Alexander Award is accompanied by a €4,000 cash prize. This year, the Newcomers Competition Jury members are: Inka Achté, filmmaker and DocPoint Head of Programming; Tina Mandilara, journalist; and Tünde Skovrán, filmmaker.
Inka Achté
Inka Achté is a Finnish filmmaker and programmer with 20 years of experience working in the film and TV industries. She has directed non-fiction in short, long, and series formats, for festival, theatrical and television audiences. Her latest feature documentary Golden Land toured at some 30 international festivals and won a total of seven prizes, including the Newcomers International Competition Golden Alexander prize at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in 2022. In addition to directing, she currently works as Head of Programming for DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival and as Head of Acquisitions at Raina, an agency focused on festival distribution of creative documentaries. She is also a founding member of the film collective Metku.
Inka Achté is a Finnish filmmaker and programmer with 20 years of experience working in the film and TV industries. She has directed non-fiction in short, long, and series formats, for festival, theatrical and television audiences. Her latest feature documentary Golden Land toured at some 30 international festivals and won a total of seven prizes, including the Newcomers International Competition Golden Alexander prize at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in 2022. In addition to directing, she currently works as Head of Programming for DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival and as Head of Acquisitions at Raina, an agency focused on festival distribution of creative documentaries. She is also a founding member of the film collective Metku.
Tina Mandilara
Tina Mandilara was born and raised in Athens. She studied philology and philosophy at the University of Athens, and went on to pursue her postgraduate studies in Aesthetics (Essex), writing her thesis on the correlation between phenomenology and the space-time continuum in the cinema of Theo Angelopoulos, as well as Political Theory (LSE) with a research focus on the differential ontology and direct democracy. She has translated books into Greek, including Gilles Deleuze’s What is Philosophy? (Kalendis Publications), and Eric Hobsbawm’s autobiography, titled Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (Themelio Publications). She started out writing film reviews as a university student for Anti magazine, and has been working as a journalist for magazines and newspapers since 2005. She is the editor-in-chief of the cultural section of the Proto Thema newspaper and writes a column about books for Lifo Free Press.
Tina Mandilara was born and raised in Athens. She studied philology and philosophy at the University of Athens, and went on to pursue her postgraduate studies in Aesthetics (Essex), writing her thesis on the correlation between phenomenology and the space-time continuum in the cinema of Theo Angelopoulos, as well as Political Theory (LSE) with a research focus on the differential ontology and direct democracy. She has translated books into Greek, including Gilles Deleuze’s What is Philosophy? (Kalendis Publications), and Eric Hobsbawm’s autobiography, titled Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (Themelio Publications). She started out writing film reviews as a university student for Anti magazine, and has been working as a journalist for magazines and newspapers since 2005. She is the editor-in-chief of the cultural section of the Proto Thema newspaper and writes a column about books for Lifo Free Press.
Tünde Skovrán
Tünde Skovrán is a Hungarian-Romanian filmmaker, actress, and producer based in the United States. She directed Who I Am Not (2023), premiered at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, winning the Silver Alexander, Mermaid, and WIFT awards. The film has since appeared in over 70 international festivals including CPH:DOX, SXSW, Doc NYC, and BFI Flare, garnering 22 awards. Tunde is a Berlinale Talent alumna since 2013 and a member of European Film Academy since 2024. As founder of J.U.S.T. Toys Productions, she champions experimental theater in the US, producing and performing in Hollywood and off-Broadway productions. She is also co-founder of Voxx Studios, a Los Angeles-based audio post-production facility. She began her career in Transylvania after graduating from Babeș-Bolyai University with a Drama degree in 2005. As a member of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj-Napoca, she earned a nomination for Romania's UNITER Award. Her film acting debut in Puzzle (2013) led to roles in features like So, What's Freedom? and Without Air.
Tünde Skovrán is a Hungarian-Romanian filmmaker, actress, and producer based in the United States. She directed Who I Am Not (2023), premiered at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, winning the Silver Alexander, Mermaid, and WIFT awards. The film has since appeared in over 70 international festivals including CPH:DOX, SXSW, Doc NYC, and BFI Flare, garnering 22 awards. Tunde is a Berlinale Talent alumna since 2013 and a member of European Film Academy since 2024. As founder of J.U.S.T. Toys Productions, she champions experimental theater in the US, producing and performing in Hollywood and off-Broadway productions. She is also co-founder of Voxx Studios, a Los Angeles-based audio post-production facility. She began her career in Transylvania after graduating from Babeș-Bolyai University with a Drama degree in 2005. As a member of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj-Napoca, she earned a nomination for Romania's UNITER Award. Her film acting debut in Puzzle (2013) led to roles in features like So, What's Freedom? and Without Air.
