JURY 2025
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ICE VIRANOV

KLARA DOSHLOV

SEZER SALIHI

ICE VIRANOV was born in 1983 in Strumica. He graduated in film and television directing from Rumiana Petkova's class at “Neofit Rilski” University in Blagoevgrad with his short film “The Boy Who Sleeps Until Noon”. He works successfully as a director and animator on music videos, advertisements, and film and television projects. His exceptional film projects “Yawning”, “(Un)Normal” and “Luka” were first screened at AsterFest in the past decade, and some of them were awarded there.

​KLARA DOSHLOV (born 1993) is an American-Serbian filmmaker and producer. She graduated in Theatre & Cinema Studies from City College of New York, CUNY. Klara has worked across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Over nearly a decade in the industry, she has contributed to numerous high-profile film sets, collaborating with a wide range of networks, agencies, labels, and production companies, including Capitol Records, Lionsgate, Sony, PBS, Verizon, The CW, Focus Features, Balkanic Media, and Pakt Media.

SEZER SALIHI (born 1991) grew up in Skopje and moved to Istanbul at the age of 21, where he completed his bachelor's degree and continued with a master's programme in the field of cinema at Marmara University. Upon graduation, Sezer returned to Macedonia to direct a couple of short drama films and worked as a TV editor. He creates his art using multi-disciplinary approaches, and he has directed numerous short films, music videos and commercial films. Last year he was awarded at AsterFest for his film “About Living”.