The Minikino Film Week 11 International Jury Board comprises a diverse group of art, literature, and film professionals from various nationalities, disciplines, and genders. They will review the nominated short films from 2025 that have passed the official selection process and conduct a deliberation meetings for the 2025 Awards.
The decision will be made during the festival after final deliberations among the jury members.
The international juries will decide on the winner in each category for:
- MFW Best Short Film of the Year Award 2025
- MFW11 Best Children Short Award
- MFW11 Best Fiction Short Award
- MFW11 Best Documentary Short Award
- MFW11 Best Animation Short Award
- MFW11 Best Experimental Short Award
Minikino Film Week 11 has the honor to present the international jury members:
BEN THOMPSON
A graduate from Aberystwyth University Ben left Wales and London to settle in New York. Soon after arriving he joined the Tribeca Film Festival where he is currently the VP of Shorts Programming. From the start of his career as a filmmaker Ben has always had a keen interest in short form storytelling. While at Tribeca he discovered a passion for programming and presenting short films to new and engaged audiences.
He is fascinated by the influence film has on our world and culture and travels to search out new stories from around the globe. He has watched over 13,000 short films for Tribeca alone.
MARY STEPHEN
Based in Paris, Mary was born in Hong Kong and graduated from Communications Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She was French New Wave director Eric Rohmer’s film editor and music co-composer, collaborating from ‘The Aviator’s Wife’ to his last feature ‘The Romance of Astrea and Celadon’. She worked extensively, in English, French, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, with fiction and documentary filmmakers from several continents as editor, script advisor or associate producer, including Yoïchiro Okutani’s ‘Nude at Heart’ (Doc NYC Kaleidoscape Award); Ann Hui’s ‘Love After Love’ (Venice Biennale 2020); Nicole Shafer’s ‘Buddha In Africa’ (NHK Award); Tiffany Hsiung’s ‘The Apology’ (Peabody Award); and many more. See Full List on IMDB.
Mary regularly does coaching at training workshops, consults for Rough Cut Service, guest-teaches at film institutions. Her directorial films include ‘The Memory of Water’ (short fiction) and ‘Vision From The Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting The Lines”(documentary). She has just completed work on her new film co coproduced with Hong Kong, Taiwan and Arte in France: “Palimpsest: the Story of a Name”. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, and was awarded the honor of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
RUDOLF DETHU
A music journalist, writer, radio presenter, vinyl DJ, socio-political activist, creative industry leader, band manager, and library diploma holder, heavily draws inspiration from punk rock philosophy. Often tagged as the Indonesian version of Malcolm McLaren—or, as Rolling Stone Indonesia put it, the grand master of music propaganda—he is perhaps best known for previously managing Bali’s two biggest bands, Superman Is Dead and Navicula, who have gone on to become two of the nation’s biggest rock bands. The band he now manages is The Hydrant, the pioneer of rockabilly in Indonesia.
Dethu is the author of Blantika | Linimasa, the first-ever history of modern music in Bali, and a mini-biography of Indonesia’s biggest punk rock unit, Superman Is Dead. After helping to initiate and manage Rumah Sanur, the first creative hub in Indonesia, since late 2023 he has been running RTB—Rumah Tanjung Bungkak, the newest, largest, and today’s hottest creative space in Denpasar.