Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino





9° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - April 2 - 6, 2025

23th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy

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CINEMA IN TRANSGRESSION JURY



Aspasia Lykourgioti Grece

Aspasia Lykourgioti was born in 1986 in Patras. She is a graduate of the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Patras and a Postgraduate Program of Studies of the Department of Theatre of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the direction of Acting.

She has completed a PhD thesis on Greek Cinema and Film Acting and works in higher education. He writes and directs for theatre and cinema. He is a member of the Panhellenic Association of Film Critics and Fipresci (International Federation of Film Critics). Her articles can be found in scientific and non-scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, while she publishes two books on contemporary trends in Film Acting and Sarah Kane's theater.

In 2022 the film "Iota Period Omega", for which she signs the text, took the first prize at the international Competition (Section: Cinema in Transgression) at the Festival interazionale Segni della Notte at Urbino, Italy.


Barbara Lorey de Lacharriere Germany / France

 

A cultural journalist and film critic for over twenty years for major German and Swiss media, BLdL has also curated photography exhibitions in Europe and the United States worked as the artistic director of the Intl. East-West Film Festival (Russia) and is a program consultant for various international film festivals.

Head of department at FIPRESCI dedicated to promoting the FIPRESCI Awards, she has been organizing film programs for festivals worldwide since 2010. In 2020, she founded a film festival in a small rural village in Southwest France as a response to the challenge of the pandemic.. In 2023, she joined the programming team of the Cinema Heritage Film Festival in Paris, and the Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétoua, Morocco.

With a strong academic background in Germany and France, BLdL is a certified psychologist and holds a postgraduate diploma in sociology from the Sorbonne and EHESS (France).




Dom Holdaway Great Britain / Italy

 

Dom Holdaway is associate professor of film, television and photography at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. He teaches courses in film history and distribution as well as media industries. His academic research focuses on the politics of film, regarding both the film image, its representations, and the social politics of film movements and consumption.