FEATURE FILM COMPETITION Jury:

Laila Pakalniņa – director and producer (Latvia); 
Marge Liiske – head of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event at the Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia);
Dmitrij Gluscevskij – European Film Forum Scanorama programmer (Lithuania);
Eva Markovits – Cinémathèque Française programmer (France);
Theo Tsappos – festival manager at Swedish Film Institute (Sweden).

SHORT RIGA National and International Competition Jury:

Wim Vanacker – a member of the Selection Committee for the Official Short Film Competition of the Cannes Film Festival (France);
Signe Birkova – a Director and Co-founder of the Baltic Analog Lab (Latvia);
Mikhail Zheleznikov – an organiser and curator of the experimental film festival Kinodot (Russian Federation) Krievija

SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video Competition Jury:

Krista Burāne – theatre and cinema director, photographer, dramaturge (Latvia)
Dāvis Eņģelis – musicologist, music reviewer, and programme host on Latvian Radio 3 ‘Klasika’ (Latvia)
Otto Kylmälä – filmmaker, film critic, programmer of the Finnish Film Archive’s cinematheque in Helsinki (Finland);
Zane Onckule – curator and a programme director and curator at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (Latvia)
Etienne Tricard – music curator for Les Arcs Film Festival, music supervisor at My Melody, co-founder of Baguette Publishing (France)

KIDS WEEKEND Jury:

Ketija Praija Vintere;
Miks Mihails Bāliņš;
Kārlis Juška;
Anna Juška;
Rēzija Luīze Skrastiņa;
Miķelis Kreilis;
Stefans Dambergs;
Dāvis Buņķis;
Anna Rūta Krieva.

Feature Film Competition Jury:
Rhidian Davis – Curator and writer (United Kingdom); Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė – Filmmaker, theatre director and artist (Lithuania); Paolo Bertolin – Film programmer, writer and producer (Italy); Gints Grūbe – Producer, film director and screenwriter (Latvia); Kristi Porila – Distributor (Estonia)

FIPRESCI* Latvian Section Jury:
Ieva Augstkalna; Šarlote Līduma; Anita Uzulniece; Elīna Reitere; Ieva Viese-Vigula

SHORT RIGA International Competition Jury:
Miguel Dias – Short film producer and programmer (Portugal); Edmunds Jansons – Film director and artist (Latvia); Emilia Mazik – Festival Director (Poland); Rich Warren – Festival Director (United Kingdom); Alise Zariņa – Film director and film critic (Latvia)

SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video Competition Jury:
Lee Chapman – Musician (United Kingdom/Latvia); Christoph Etzlsdorfer – Programme Curator (Austria); Adriāna Roze – Director (Latvia); Una Rozenbauma – Director (Latvia); Cai Trefor – Music journalist (United Kingdom)

RIGA IFF Children’s Jury:
Braiens Martinsons; Emīls Miķelsons; Rēzija Roze Rāzna; Austra Agate Priedīte; Vilis Kristlībs; Tālis Indāns; Līva Curika; Sofija Curika; Žanete Sīpola; Maximillian Hahn; Gundega Anna Antonio

Feature Film Competition Jury:
Rainer Sarnet – Theatre and film director (Estonia); Barbora Ligasová – Representative of the Czech film centre (Czech Republic); Dorota Lech – Representative of the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada); Anna Möttölä – CEO of the Love and Anarchy Helsinki International Film Festival (Finland); Roberts Vinovskis – Film producer (Latvia)

SHORT RIGA International Competition Jury:
Per Fikse – Director of Minimalen Short Film Festival (Norway); Chintis Lundgren – Animator and artist (Estonia, Croatia); Jānis Putniņš – Director of the National Film School of the Latvian Academy of Culture (Latvia); Ieva Viese-Vigula – Writer and film critic (Latvia); Enrico Vannucci – Short film advisor for the Venice and Quebec City Film Festivals (Italy)

SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video Competition Jury:
Jessica Manstetten – Curator of the MuVi Prize competition programme and MuVi International programme at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany); Juris Simanovičs – Musician, composer (Latvia); Inese Vēriņa-Lubiņa (INA VARE) – Audiovisual media artist, VJ, Teacher of the Advertising Design programme at the Riga School of Design and Art (Latvia); Cai Trefor – Editor of the music webzine Gigwise (Great Britain); Kristine Kebbinau – Producer of music events (Estonia)

RIGA IFF Youth Jury:
Alberts Roze; Elza Marta Ruža; Pauls Rubens; Anete Dance

RIGA IFF Children’s Jury:
Arvena Lote Kravčenko; Jēkabs Blanks; Nils Klaverī; Krista Kušķe; Linda Saviča; Žanete Blanka; Ieva Bille; Kate Štāla

Feature Film Competition Jury:
Timo Malmi – Movie critic, Artistic Director of Midnight Sun Film Festival (Finland); Bernd Buder – Film journalist and curator, Programme Director of the Film Festival Cottbus (Germany); Dovilė Butnoriūtė – Head of Department of Film Promotion, Information and Heritage at the Lithuanian Film Centre (Lithuania); Dāvis Sīmanis – Filmmaker, professor, and theorist (Latvia); Lenka Tyrpáková – Representative of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Prague Short Film Festival (Czech Republic)

SHORT RIGA International Competition Jury:
Antra Gaile – Producer (Latvia); Christian Stark – Short film curator, lecturer, member of the Selection Committee of the Swiss Competition at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland); Dan Angelescu – Festival manager and associate curator of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (Romania); Joanna Rytel – Artist (Sweden); Maija Kurševa – Artist, lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia, founder of the gallery LOW (Latvia)

SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video Competition Jury:
Kamil Horodecki – Head of Music Video at the International Film Festival Camerimage (Poland); Liisa Lahtmets – Programme and marketing manager of the Tallinn’s Kultuuriklubi Kelm, works at Raadio 2 and is the City Stage programme manager at Tallinn Music Week (Estonia); Karolis Vyšniauskas – Music and culture journalist, co-founder of Music Video Competition at Vilnius Film Festival Kino Pavasaris (Lithuania); Uģis Olte – Film director (Latvia); Nadja Sayej – Journalist, raps under the stage name Snowe White (Germany)

RIGA IFF Children’s Jury:
Aleksis Avots; Alisone Mae Brīniņa; Sofija Derringa; Kristiāns Freibergs; Linda Ivanova; Orests Knite; Iļja Potapovs; Marians Zandersons; Tomass Zandersons

RIGA IFF Youth Jury:
Linda Elīna Austruma; Roberts Pavlovskis; Ieva Augstkalna; Rita Buša; Kristiāna Tabiņa; Kristians Fukss; Elza Elīza Bicāne; Petra Alma Peta

Feature Film Competition Jury:
Dita Rietuma – Film critic, film theorist and lecturer, Head of the National Film Centre of Latvia (Latvia); Øystein Egge – Film critic, film theorist, and programme curator (Norway); Kaarel Kuurmaa – Film and theatre journalist, festival programmer at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) and DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival (Estonia); Peter Shepotinnik – Film critic, programmer at the Moscow International Film Festival (Russia); Roberto Cueto – Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Carlos III University in Madrid, a member of the Selection Committee at the San Sebastián International Film Festival (Spain).

SHORT RIGA International Competition Jury:
Liene Linde – Film director, film critic (Latvia); Aigars Ceplītis – Creative director of the Audiovisual Media Arts Department at RISEBA (Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration) (Latvia); Pela del Álamo – Director of Curtocircuíto International Short Film Festival (Spain); Andrea Wink – Co-founder and director of Exground Filmfest (Germany).

SHORT RIGA Baltic Student Competition Jury:
Renārs Vimba – Film director (Latvia); Charlotte Munck – Actress, teaching actors at various educational workshops (Denmark); Anna Purkrabkova – Representative of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic); Jing Haase – Representative of Nordisk Panorama – Nordic Short and Documentary Film Festival (Sweden); Marija Razgutė – Film producer, representative of the International Short Film Festival Vilnius Film Shorts (Lithuania).

SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video Competition Jury:
Raitis Ābele – Filmmaker, musician (Latvia); Aiga Leitholde – Music manager and journalist (Latvia); Mārtiņš Grauds – Filmmaker and photographer (Latvia); Saulius Baradinskas – Independent filmmaker and music video director (Lithuania); Torunn Nyen – Film curator, representative of the Norwegian Short Film Festival and the Movies on War film festival (Norway)

RIGA IFF Children’s Jury:
Gregors Jānis Putniņš, Alise Samīte, Evelīna Zīle, Edvards Pavļuts, Viesturs Oliņš, Ume Zēberga, Madara Tivuma, Kārlis Jānis Krastiņš, and Katrīna Anna Krastiņa.

RIGA IFF Youth Jury:
Karlīna Marta Zvirbule, Luīze Lote Nežberte, Diāna Sutugina, Andrejs Poikāns, and Laura Tuča.

Feature Film Competition Jury:
Jānis Putniņš – Film director and cinephile, director of commercials at Film Angels Studio (Latvia); Mariëtte Rissenbeek – Managing Director of German Films Service + Marketing GmbH – the national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films (Germany); Kirsi Tykkyläinen – Actress, former Managing Director of the Finnish Film Foundation (Finland); Zara Abdullaeva – Film historian and critic, long-standing collaborator of the main Russian film magazine Isskustvo kino (Film Art) (Russia); Santa Lingevičiūtė – Film critic, Artistic Director of the Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris (Lithuania).

SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video Competition Jury:
Mārtiņš Ratniks – Artist, lecturer at the Department of Visual Communication of the Art Academy of Latvia (Latvia) – Marta Grigale, Artist, musician, media personality (Latvia), Armands Začs – Film director and film editor (Latvia).

SHORT RIGA Baltic Student Competition Jury:
Jukka-Pekka Laakso – Director of Tampere Film Festival – one of the most important European short film festivals (Finland); Niels Erik Tolne Fonseca – Film and television script editor and lecturer, assessor for the film funding bodies, as well as commissioning editor and development producer (Denmark); Wouter Jansen – Head of programming at the International Short Film Festival Go Short, founder of an indie distribution company Some Shorts (Netherlands).

SHORT RIGA International Competition Jury:
Laurence Boyce – Freelance journalist (specialising in cinema, books, music and culture in general), working as a cinema/festival programmer and in film PR (Great Britain, Estonia); Pēteris Krilovs – Film and stage director, professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Latvia); Jukka-Pekka Laakso – Director of Tampere Film Festival – one of the most important European short film festivals (Finland).

RIGA IFF Youth Jury:
Patrīcija Keiša, Anete Ance Tomsone, and Kristofers Buks.

RIGA IFF Children’s Jury:
Matīss Jauja, Augusts Kārlis Kristlībs, Dāvids Asaris, Egija Fišere, Morics Menģelsons, and Arsēnijs Pahomovs.