JURY 2026

Margit Antauer (Zagreb, 1950) studied English and German at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science in her home town. 1974 she started working as a producer at the statal agency for cultural events Zagreb Concert Management where she worked with a brief break (1990-1991) until her retirement in 2015. Her first visit to China (Being, Shanghai, Guangzhou) was in 1979 as the accompanying  tour leader of a student music choir from Zagreb.  Between 1992 and 2006 she was the event office manager and the chief organiser of Animafest Zagreb, and in 2004 and 2006 she independently designed this world-renowned animation festival.  Ms Antauer took part in selection committees and juries of many international animation festivals and was presented the annual award of ASIFA (international animation association) for her overall contribution to the development of the art of animation and the Award of the Portuguese festival Monstra, Prémio carrera 2023 for her extensive work on the animation festival scene. In 2022 she actively contributed to writing and editing the Animafest Zagreb monograph and co-curating exhibition for the festival’s 50th anniversary, receiving from her younger colleagues a special award, The Heart of Animafest for her half a century of commitment to the festival. Since 2015 she is the appointed President of the Animafest Council.

Mélody Boulissière is a French animation filmmaker whose work blends traditional techniques such as animated painting, oil pastel, and collage. Her graduation film Ailleurs (Somewhere) was selected for the Cinéfondation section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. In 2024, she co-directed the animated documentary Simply Divine with Bogdan Stamatin. The film received a Special Mention at IDFA Amsterdam and won the Mephisto 97.6 Award at DOK Leipzig, while continuing its international festival run with more than 100 selections and 15 awards. She co-writes and co-directs Patouille & Momo, a 26-episode children’s series created with Inès Bernard Espina and Clémentine Campos.The pilot won the CICLIC Award at Annecy and was selected at over 50 festivals worldwide. The full season is released on France Télévisions in 2026.

KRSTE GOSPODINOVSKI is a Macedonian director and animator. He studied painting at the National Art Academy – Sofia and he’s currently finishing his Ph.D. in cultural studies\animation. He is a fulltime professor and head of the animation department at the University of Audiovisual Arts – Europa Prima in Skopje, and one of the founders of Flip Book Productions and Flipbook Film Festival in Skopje. His previous short animated films (author/co-author) Gottlieb (2018), Snakelet (2020)  and Not-Being (2023) were screened at numerous festivals and won several awards. His latest film Silent Cinema (2025) premiered at Annecy Festival, and has since been selected at over 50 festivals and won 15 awards.

Sébastien Sperer has worked for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival during 25 years  from 1999 to 2024. This child overflowing with infinite dreams ad-libs his way from one specialty to another: programmer, selector, moderator, jury member, speaker, and so on. Wherever he is, his desire is to make animation, this medium in which anything is possible, accessible to all; a kind of village hang-out where human experience exists unfiltered and unrestrained. With this in mind, he created the “WTF”programme in 2017. Fascinated by the mobilizing power inherent in the magic of film, his leitmotiv is: “Promoting intercultural understanding through the use of animated film, dialogue and transmission”. He was also teacher of history of animation at Gobelins Annecy from 2022 to 2025.

Miloš Tomić studied film directing in Belgrade (class of Prof. Miša Radivojević), and then completed his master's and PhD studies in multimedia animation at FAMU in Prague. As an exchange student, he studied in Berlin (UDK) and Madrid. His film "Spitted by Kiss"was the Czech representative for the Student Oscars. With the project "Musical Diaries"he represented Serbia at the Venice Biennale 2013. Since 1993, he has made more than 60 short films and animated works of various forms, mostly as a screenwriter, director and lead animator, and occasionally as a cameraman, actor and editor. His works have participated in numerous festivals around the world. He has also collaborated on many other projects as a mentor, co-screenwriter, (unconvincing) actor, cameraman or animator. In addition to film, he is also active on the contemporary art scene – from gallery exhibitions with photo collages, found and made objects, drawings and photographs, to street installations and live performances in which he appears as a narrator, musician or lecturer-performer. Since 2005, he has been intensively involved in education and has held at least a hundred workshops with participants of different ages and social groups in more than 30 cities across Europe. He taught at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) in Belgrade from 2009 to 2016 and was one of the founders of the Department of Digital Art. He is still dedicated to documenting scenes and precious moments of everyday life, collecting unusual objects found on the street, recording or at least retelling bizarre accidentally overheard conversations, as well as persistently working on auteur films that, slowly but steadily, "roll" towards their completion.

Irina Kondić was born in 1973 in Belgrade. She graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Applied Graphics. She has been a member of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia) since 2014, as well as ICOM (International Council of Museums).She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as several editions of the International Biennial of Illustration "Golden Pen of Belgrade". At the 53rd "Golden Pen of Belgrade" (18th Biennial of Illustration) held in 2025, she served as a jury member. Her work is featured in the publication Atlas of Fine and Applied Artists and Designers of Serbia (Slobodan Maldini, Sofija Lancoš Maldini, 2019).She is a curator at the Yugoslav Cinematheque (Jugoslovenska kinoteka), where she primarily focuses on the concept development and realization of exhibition displays, as well as authorial exhibitions. She has curated numerous exhibitions dedicated to prominent figures and authors of Yugoslav and Serbian cinematography and culture.