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JURY 2016

Soheila Golestani
Soheila Golestani, born in 1980, made her Bachelor of Arts in Stage Design, Theater and Cinema at the Theater Faculty of Art University in Tehran/Iran. TWO is her first feature film.

Susanne Mertens
Susanne Mertens was born in a small town in Western Germany close to the Dutch border. She studied languages and literature in Cologne/Germany and Clermont-Ferrand/France, and worked as an intern for various cultural institutions in France and Canada before she started working for ZDF in Mainz in 1995. After two years as assistant, Susanne became commissioning editor in the department ZDF/ARTE Das Kleine Fernsehspiel in 1997, which is now called ZDF/ARTE Thema.

Dan Angelo Muggia
Dan Angelo Muggia is the artistic director of both the Pitigliani Kolona Festival in Italy and the Cinema Italia in Tel Aviv/Israel. He has worked as an actor, critic, teacher and curator. Until 2004, he served as head of the Israel Film Service. In 2003, he published his first book: "100 Film Masterpieces", in 2005, he produced NAOMI’S CORSET, directed by Gerard Allon and in 2010 HOW MUCH LOVE directed by Kineret Hay Gillor. Currently, he is the head of the Film Department at the Faculty of the Arts at Beit Berl College in Kfar Saba, one of Wiesbaden’s twin towns.