Who will decide the winner of the Czech-German BOO?
We would like to introduce the jury of the Czech-German BOO, which consists of four female film experts who will decide which contemporary film from both countries will be awarded!
Julia Fleißig
During her studies of film, romance languages and literature and business administration, Julia opened a renowned, awarded arthouse cinema that she ran for six years. She has been working in different projects at the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt since 2006. Before becoming director of LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers in 2017 she was head of the film education project SchulKinoWochen Hessen for five years. For Julia, cinema is the original and genuine place for films and she loves to keep film culture alive and vivid.
Amrei Keul
Amrei Keul is co-director of the International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany). She studied German and Romance languages and initially worked in theater and exhibition production. Since 2018, she has worked for various film festivals, including Alcine (Alcalá de Henares, Spain) and the Five Lakes Film Festival (Starnberg, Germany), as well as guest curator for Interfilm Berlin. In 2022, she took over the artistic and managing direction in Regensburg, together with Gabriel Fieger. Since 2024, she has also been a member of the board of AG Kurzfilm, the German Short Film Association.
Adéla Komrzý
Adéla Komrzý studied History of Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the Charles University and graduated from Documentary Directing at the FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). In 2018, she participated in a prestigious internship at the Filmuni Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, and she was selected for Berlinale. Her BA graduation film Teaching War from the Czech Journal cycle was awarded with the main Andrej “Nikolaj” Stankovič Prize. Her film Viva Video, Video Viva about Czech video art pioneers was nominated for the Pavel Koutecký Award. Her last films, Intensive Life Unit and Art Talent Show, were awarded numerous prizes including the Czech Lion Award, the Czech Film Critics’ Award, the Pavel Koutecký Award and various international film festival prizes.
Eva Váchová
Eva Váchová, a FAMU graduate and co-founder of the production company Bratři with Pavel Vácha, debuted as producer with Adam Koloman Rybanský’s Somewhere Over the Chemtrails (Berlinale Panorama 2022). In 2023 she produced She Came at Night, which premiered in Karlovy Vary and won multiple Czech Film Critics’ Awards as well as Czech Lions. She specializes in intelligent comedies rooted in the Czech cinematic tradition.