Jānis Kalējs is one of the most accomplished producers in Latvia with more than 25 years of experience. He is the co-founder of Film Angels Studio and his field of expertise is international cooperation, film services and co-productions, working with professionals from USA, Germany, UK, France, India, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and many other countries. Kalējs is currently a board member of the Film Service Producers Association of Latvia, a foundation that aims to promote international film service in the Baltic region and to initiate legislative initiatives to develop the industry. He has produced several commercially successful and acclaimed films, most notably Anna Viduleja's Homo Novus (2018).

Uljana Kim is the director and founder of Studio Uljana Kim, Lithuania's leading film studio, which has produced more than 30 feature-length films and documentaries since 1997. She has produced award-winning films such as Ignas Jonynas’ The Gambler (2013), Mantas Kvedaravičius’ Mariupolis (2016–2022), and Tomas Vengris' Motherland (2021). As a producer, she has worked with directors such as Sergei Loznitsa, Dāvis Sīmanis, Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, Algimantas Puipa, and others. She graduated as a film critic from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography. For more than 25 years, Kim and her studio have aimed to create cinema that is both successful in the festival circuit and appreciated and loved by audiences.

Jenni Zylka is a German film critic, curator and publicist who led the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme at Berlinale, which focused on trends in German cinema, only screening directors' debut and second feature films. She is now also a member of the selection committee for the Panorama programme at Berlinale. She writes regularly on film, media and music for publications such as Der Spiegel and Rolling Stone, works for Deutschlandradio and WDR, and devotes her time to short fiction and screenplays. Currently based in Berlin, Zylka is a member of several film critics' associations, serves on film festival juries, teaches journalism, and comments on cultural processes. This year she is guest curator of the Zeitgeist Deutschland section in the RIGA IFF programme.

Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan director, writer, and producer from Afganistan. When the Taliban came to power in 2021, she left the country and settled in Hamburg. Her debut film, Wolf and Sheep (2016), which was developed at the Cinéfondation's Cannes residency, won the Art Cinema Award (CICAE) in the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight section. Sadat was 20 years old at the time, becoming the youngest director to be selected for the residency. Her second feature film, The Orphanage (2019), was screened in the same section. She studied documentary filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan workshop in Kabul and founded her own studio, Wolf Pictures, in 2013. Since 2020, she has been working on a romantic comedy called No Good Men set against the backdrop of events that took place before the political situation in Kabul escalated.

Ilkka Matila is one of Finland's leading and most experienced producers and the co-owner of MRP Matila Röhr Productions, a film studio he founded in 1997. Over the last 30 years, he has produced around 25 highly acclaimed feature films and shorts, miniseries, and documentaries. Matila is a graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts and has worked in Germany and Iceland in the early stages of his career. He has won the Finnish National Film Award for Best Producer, has served on juries at numerous festivals in Northern Europe, and is a member of the European Film Academy and the ACE Producers Network.