Festival
Juries
International Feature Films Official Competition
Virginia Ávila
Argentina
Ávila is a co-founder of Consultora Nómadas. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics (UNR), and holds a master’s degree in Cultural Organization Management (UBA), a diploma in political ecology, gender, and climate change (CLACSO), and works as a professor. She was a member of Cultura Circular, an initiative for sustainable festivals in Latin America, and is an advisor on cultural sustainability projects.
Lorena Tavera Peña
Colombia
Lorena Tavera Peña is a Colombian cultural manager and film curator specializing in cinema, education, and sustainability. She is the director of Fundación Gestión Nodal (FINCALI, Gira Lazos Pacíficos, and Pantalla Verde) and previously worked as a producer for FINCA and FICDH in Argentina. She is a councillor on the District Council for Cinematography and Audiovisuals of Cali (2024–2027) and a member of Red FESTIVA.
Martín Turnes
Argentina
Martín Turnes was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU–UBA). He is a cinematographer and a member of the Argentine Society of Cinematographers (ADF). As a director, he made the short films A la orilla (2004), Pasamontañas (2006), Boteros (2010), and Una noche solos (2019), as well as the feature films Pichuco (2014) and El agrónomo (2024). El agrónomo received a Special Jury Mention and won the Audience Award at FINCA 2024.
International Short and Medium-Length Films Official Competition
Aimar Almirón
Paraguay
Aimar Almiron is a Paraguayan filmmaker and producer with a Bachelor’s degree in Cinematography and Marketing; they are currently enrolled in the Locarno Industry Academy and the CICAE Arthouse Cinema Training. Their work focuses on filmmaking, film criticism, and independent film distribution, with a particular interest in queer subjectivities, territory and memory.
Marianela Siccardi
Argentina
Marianela Siccardi holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and is a professor at the National University of La Plata (UNLP). Since 2010, she has worked on short films, feature films, performance, and art installations. She previously taught Screenwriting I at UNLP and has been a general producer in Espacio Queer: Sexual Diversity and Gender Film Festival since 2013. Her first short film, Zamana, premiered in 2025.
Angélica Torres
Colombia
Angélica is the Distribution and Industry Chief at Bogoshorts Film Agency. She directed and produced the documentary short film Pirsas, which premiered in the NEST section of the San Sebastián Film Festival and received awards at FENAVID, Brain Film Fest, and the 2025 Premios Macondo. She has served as a jury member for the Premios Víctor Nieto ANAFE, MICPI Ecuador, and the 22nd Bogoshorts.
Diego Alfonso Torres
México
Diego is the founder and coordinator of Cine Móvil ToTo, a civil association that has been bringing film screenings to rural, Indigenous, and underserved communities by bicycle and using solar power since 2013. He has traveled across Mexico on more than 18 screening tours and has developed film discussion projects within the country’s penitentiary system.
Latin American Documentaries Official Competition
Adrielle Chiceri
Brasil
Arts manager and researcher who specializes in agroecology and food culture, combining these fields with art and popular education. She is the founder of Cine Verde en Bici, a traveling project across the Triple Frontier that promotes ties between cinema, nature, and local communities, using film as a tool to imagine more just and sustainable futures.
Alejo Di Risio
Argentina
Alejo Di Risio is a communicator, researcher and filmmaker. He is a member of the Argentine Association of Environmental Lawyers, the Ecosocial Justice Action Collective, the Transitions Team and the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South. He directed the documentary Por el Paraná: La Disputa por el Río and developed the Asamblea por el Futuro (Assembly for the Future), a methodology designed to imagine desirable futures and create tools for social transformation.
Mauricio Ovando
Bolivia
Mauricio Ovando is a filmmaker and educator. His first work Algo quema (2018) is an archival footage documentary that goes over his family history and his relation with Bolivian history. He was selected by more than 35 film festivals around the world, and won both the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) award and the Best Director award at the 20th BAFICI festival. Ovando is currently working on his second film Inundación.
Loreley Unamuno
Argentina
Loreley Unamuno is a documentary filmmaker who graduated from ENERC. She co-directed the award-winning documentaries A través de la tierra (Through the Land) and Mujeres de la mina (Women of the Mine). She combines documentary filmmaking and photography with art workshops across different social and community spaces.
RAFMA
Argentine Network of Audiovisual Festivals and Showcases
Matías Ballistreri
Argentina
Matías Ballistreri holds a degree in Cinematography and New Media from the Instituto Universitario Patagónico de las Artes (IUPA). He is director and programmer of the Nieve Roja Horror and Fantasy Film Festival and a member of Indómito, an interdisciplinary research group on horror, science fiction, and bizarro fiction at the University of Buenos Aires.
Damián Martínez
Argentina
Damián Martínez is an audiovisual filmmaker and director of the documentary The Lord of the Penguins (2025). He won the INCAA Historias Breves competition with the film Como dos extraños, which premiered at the 39th Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 2024. He is co-director of the Puerto Madryn International Film Festival (MAFICI) and programmer at Espacio INCAA Puerto Madryn.
Luciano Nacci
Argentina
Luciano Nacci is a filmmaker, producer, and audiovisual professor from Patagonia. He graduated from CIEVYC and UNSAM and founded Km Sur in 2013. He directed the feature films Los caminos de Cuba (2019) and Tormenta de Fuego (2024), which have been screened at international festivals, where they collected awards. He is the director of the Luz del Desierto International Film Festival and the Río Negro International Social Film Festival.