The NUFF 2022 jury
NUFF has two juries: the Nordic jury and the international jury.
The Nordic jury will select 1 winner for best Nordic film, which will be awarded 10 000,- NOK. The Nordic prize sponsored and presented by Foreningen Norden Norway.
The international jury will select one winner for the best international film.
The winners will be presented at the award ceremony on Saturday 29th October at Verdensteatret at 20h. Admission is free.
The award statuettes are manufactured by Blåst Glasshytta AS in Tromsø.
The Nordic jury
Mai-Lis Eira
Mai-Lis Eira is a director and writer who lives in Kautokeino. A graduate of the Nordland kunst- og filmhøgskole in Kabelvåg, she has directed several short films with screenings at International film festivals.
Nanna Moan
Nanna Moan is an aspiring filmmaker from Sørreisa in the north of Norway. The past two years she attended the NUFF workshops in Tromsø and this summer she was a participant at The Next Film Festival in Odense. She hopes to attend film school in the future.
Sanjey Sureshkumar
Sanjey Sureshkumar works as a visual artist, filmmaker and musician and is the founder and frontrunner of Norwegian-Tamil radio «SASUSU Radio». His artistic practice varies through formats such as sound, film, performance and installation within the thematic framework of migration, where Sanjey often focuses on his own Tamil heritage and the tamil diaspora.
The International Jury
Hanna Suni
Hanna Suni was raised by the edge of the Norwegian sea in the idyllic small village of Ramberg in Lofoten. At the tender age of 7 Hanna was finally allowed to borrow her mother’s video camera, and from that point on there was no way back! She is an ambassador for projects about themes about and from voices which has previously been hidden or forgotten.
Sebastian Mulder
Dutch filmmaker Sebastian Mulder (1994) was born and raised in Nijmegen (Netherlands). His award winning films explore the relationships between humans and other nature, and the influence of technology on these relationships. His experimental and poetic documentaries, in which he questions our world’s future, have been screened at numerous festivals around the world.
Jasmijn Kooijman
Jasmijn Kooijman grew up in Amsterdam but moved to Sweden in 2015, where she started studying film. She is interested in the relation between film and politics. Many of her projects revolve around either forced migration or migration by choice. The formats she uses differ from documentary, fiction and artfilm to stop-motion in her latest short.