To the Court of Appeal in Belgrade and the Minister of Justice of Serbia Maja Popović:

We are calling on the Serbian authorities to prevent extradition of filmmaker Andrei Gnyot to Belarus, where he faces imprisonment, torture and even the death penalty.

There is no time left – on August 27th the Serbian Court of Appeal held the final hearing of Andrei’s case. Now it will decide whether he will be extradited or not.

Andrei is a Belarusian filmmaker and activist. He is known for making documentary footage during the Belarus 2020 protests and recording athletes' appeals for free and fair elections. He is being prosecuted by the Belarusian authoritarian regime for these activities.

Andrei was arrested in Serbia in 2023 following an Interpol search request from the Belarusian government – a repeated tactic used by the Lukashenko regime to track down democracy activists around the world. Even though Interpol later cancelled the search request, Serbia has not released Andrei.

Andrei Gnyot is recognised by international human rights organisations as a political prisoner.

As Amnesty International states, “Under international law which prohibits torture and inhuman treatment, Serbia must provide protection to Andrei Gnyot. We call on the Serbian government to ensure his safety and freedom.” Similar appeals were made by the Committee to Protect Journalists, International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, International Federation for Human Rights and other organisations. At the moment, there are over 1300 political prisoners in Belarus, held in inhumane conditions.

Artists for Andrei Campaign is organised by actor Mitya Savelau and film producer and director Volia Chajkouskaya, co-foundress of the Belarusian Independent Film Academy (BIFA) with the support of the European Film Academy (EFA). In July, BIFA and EFA jointly called for the immediate release of Andrei Gnyot.

More Information:

Amnesty International’s Statement

European Film Academy’s Statement

Belarusian Independent Film Academy’s Statement

Committee to Protect Journalists

Undersigned:

Mitya Savelau, actor, campaigner, Artists for Andrei Campaign organiser

Volia Chajkouskaya, film producer, film director, co-foundress of the BIFA, Artists for Andrei Campaign organiser

Agnieszka Holland, film director and screenwriter

Juliette Binoche, actress, President of the European Film Academy

Svetlana Alexievich, writer, journalist, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

Justine Triet, film director, screenwriter

Arthur Harari, screenwriter and actor

Béla Tarr, filmmaker

Sandra Hüller, actress

Matthijs Wouter Knol, CEO European Film Academy

Mark Cousins, film director, producer, writer

Srdjan Dragojević, writer, director

Mike Downey, OBE, producer, Chair European Film Academy

Margarethe von Trotta, film director, screenwriter and actress

Wim Wenders, filmmaker, playwright and photographer

Yorgos Lanthimos, filmmaker

Kornel Mundruczó, film and theatre director

Dame Vanessa Redgrave DBE, actress

Kirill Serebrennikov, director

Vladimir Perišić, film director

Isabel Coixet, film director and screenwriter

Lukas Dhont, film director and screenwriter

Jasmila Žbanić, film director and screenwriter

Mélanie Laurent, actress and filmmaker

Damir Ibrahimović, producer

Rebecca O’Brien, producer

David Lan, CBE, playwright, theatre producer and director

Miroslav Terzic, director, writer, producer

Lambert Wilson, actor
Edward Berger, film director and screenwriter,

Cristian Mungiu, film director and screenwriter, producer

Karim Aïnouz, film director and screenwriter

Christine Bacon, co-artistic director, Ice&Fire Theatre

Ken Loach, film director and screenwriter

Nina Hoss, actress

Marco Bellocchio, film director and screenwriter

Pedro Almodóvar, film director

Pawel Pawlikowski, film director

Victor Kossakovsky, film director

Dennis Ivanov, producer

Oleh Sentsov, film director and screenwriter

Alice Diop, film director and screenwriter

Zar Amir Ebrahimi, actress and filmmaker

Jim Sheridan, film director, screenwriter and producer

Charlotte Wells, film director and screenwriter

Fernando Trueba, film director, screenwriter, producer

José Maria Morales, producer

Elena Manrique, film director and producer

Aliaksei Paluyan, film director, screenwriter

Nicolai Khalezin M.B.E., co–founder, artistic director, Belarus Free Theatre

Natalia Kaliada M.B.E., co–founder, artistic director, Belarus Free Theatre

Guslagie Malanda, actress

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, film director and screenwriter

Lars Eidinger, actor

Paula Cons Varela, film director and screenwriter

Arantxa Echevarria, film director and screenwriter

Liz Lobato, film director and actress

Darya Zhuk, film director

Branka Bešević Gajić, film & TV director, member of the European Film Academy in Berlin

Irena Kaciałovič, film critic

Mara Tamkovich, director

Vlada Senkova, film director, screenwriter

Andrei Kutsila, film director

Tanya Hatsura-Yavorska, director, WATCH DOCS Belarus

Biljana Prvanovic, film producer

Sergey Shabohin, artist, editor in chief of KALEKTAR.org

Nikola Ljuca, film and theatre director

Jasper Rischen, filmmaker

Robert Sterne, casting director

Katerina Jebb, artist, photographer

Bojan Vuletic, film director, scriptwriter,  member of European Film Academy, Serbian Union of Film Directors

Sasha Kulak, film director

Aaron Li-Hill, Canadian-American-British visual artist

Maryna Yakubovich, actress, theatre director

Siniša Cvetić, film director

Maxim Didenko, theatre director

Aliaksei Vainilovich, actor

Maksim Shved, film director

Janko Baljak, film and TV director, professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade

Stefan Ivančić, film director, producer and festival programmer

Maryna Zdoronkova, actress, theatre director

Maryia Piatrovich, actress

Anna Savchenko, film director

Mikałaj Stońka, actor

Hanna Komar, poet, writer, translator

Pavel Haradnitski, actor, theatre director, musician

Olga Shparaga, philosopher

Sasha Filipenko, writer, journalist

Miriam Margolyes, actress

Anton Dolin, film critic and journalist

Galina Altman, composer, musician

Ashley Karaweigh, artistic director Metalore Theatre

Danijel Hočevar, producer

Michael Lockshin, film director, writer

Ognjen Glavonić, writer, director

Boban Skerlić, writer, director

Srdan Golubović, film director

Marko Grba Singh, filmmaker and festival programmer

Maša Nešković, film and TV director

Tanja Brzakovic, film director

Salomé Jashi, film director

Lara Bajraktarevic, production manager

Ena Bajraktarević, producer

Nana Ekvtimishvili,  film director, writer

Mariam Chachia, film director, producer

Taciana Niadbaj, poet, PEN BElarus President, human rights defender, publisher

Mina Leontijević, writer, production coordinator

Jessica Hausner, film director and screenwriter

Jelena Mitrović, producer

Nikolina Vučetić Zečević, producer

Maja Popović Milojević, producer

Čarna Vučinić, producer

Stefan Ivančić, producer

Milan Stojanović, producer

Branislav Trifunović, actor, producer

Nataša Damnjanović, producer

Dušan Vojvodić, producer

Snežana van Houwelingen, producer

Milena Šmigić, producer

Jelena Angelovski, producer

Dragana Jovović, producer

Mirko Bojović, producer

Miloš Pušić, producer

Vuk Ršumović, producer, director

Miloš Ljubomirović, producer, director

Roni Mahadav Levin, festival director

Judith Colell,  Catalan Film Academy

Davide Abbatescianni, Film Critic, Journalist

Baran bo Odar, Director and Writer

Selman Nacar, Director

Svend Bolstad Jensen, film distributor

Nathalie Pitters, cinematographer

Snežana Bogdanović, actor

Uliks Fehmiu, actor

Verena Altenberger, Actress and president of Austrian Film Academy

Gennady Kofman, producer, co-founder Docudays UA IHRDFF

Tue Steen Müller, film consultant

Stellan Skarsgård, actor

Mikko Makela, film director

Sarah McCarthy, film director

Kerstin Gaecklein, hair & make up designer

Clementina Hegewisch, Producer

Enrico Latella, Supervising Location Manager

Panagiotis Panagopoulos, film critic and journalist

Marion Schmidt, Project Manager & Consultant

Christiane Teichgräber, Consultant

Domnica Circiumaru, Casting Director

SILVAN ZÜRCHER, film producer & script writer

Valerio Mastandrea, actor

Carme Puig, Head of film festivals

Paolo Costella, screenwriter and director

Andrea Osvart, actress

Diana Paroiu, producer

Anamaria Marinca, actor

Ivo Mathé, President of Czech Film and Television Academy

Ada Solomon, film producer, Deputy Chairperson EFA, Vice President EWA Network

Charlotte Most, Producer

Mihai Fulger, Film critic and curator

Rémi Grellety, Producer

Ari Davidovich, Film director and producer

Stina Werenfels, film director

Satu Elo, Deputy CEO of EAVE

Radek Wegrzyn, film director

Giovanni Funiati, actor

Marketa SANTROCHOVA, head of Czech Film Center

Yoel Herzberg, Production Designer

Victoria Trofimenko, film director, screenwriter

Mel Churcher, acting coach/director

Jenny Schily, actress

Naum Kleiman, film historian

Emanuele Gerosa, film director

Julia Juaniz, editor

Angelo Laudisa producer

Mark Glynne, sound Designer

Rajko Jazbec, producer & managing partner

Pasquale Catalano, composer

David Thion, film producer

Stefan Haupt, film producer

Mark Devine, film producer

Orlane Dumas, producer

David Rosier, producer

Veton Nurkollari, artistic director DokuFest Kosovo

Xavier Rashid, head of sales

Rebecca Lenkiewicz, writer and director

Signe Baumane, writer, director

Su Erdt, production designer

Özcan Vardar, film editor

Sophia Olsson, cinematographer

Claudio Esposito, producer

Julia Von Heinz, director 

Lot Rossmark, film editor

Johannes Zeiler, actor

Matthias Luthardt, film director and writer

Feo Aladag, director, writer & producer

Véronique Reymond, film director

Stéphanie Chuat, Swiss director

Barbara Auer, actress

Birgit Stauber, actress & writer

Christian Rouaud, cinéaste documentariste

Corneliu Porumboiu, film director, screenwriter

Jacob Berger, film director

Vigdis Lian, film advisor

Flavia Zanon, producer

Øistein Refseth, CEO - Mer Filmdistribusjon

Miguel Santesmases, film director

Mike Elliott, film producer

Kristof Gerega, producer

James Krishna Floyd, actor and filmmaker

Andrea Kuhn, director of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film

Festival

Michael Graf, producer

Maite Woköck, producer

Colin Monie, editor

Milena Fessmann, film producer

Luci Lenox, casting director

Vessela Martschewski, film editor

Simone Baumann, managing director German Films

Valeria Wagner, programmer at Zurich Film Festival

Fabian Gasmia, producer

Spiro N. Taraviras, director, producer, screenwriter

Antoneta Kastrati, writer/director

Boban Jevtic, screenwriter

Paulina Lorenz, producer and writer

Raquel Dukpa, writer

Faraz Shariat, director

Eugen Tamberg, production designer

Jens Meurer, filmmaker

Michele Conforti, director, writer, cinematographer

Kevin Loader, producer 

Małgorzata Szumowska, Polish director and writer

Helen Olive, producer

Tilde Corsi, producer

Maria Lainas CSA, casting director / assistant director

Jaco van Dormael, film director

Kostis Maraveyas, composer

Xavier Koller, Swiss film director and screenwriter

Agust Gudmundsson, film director

Tine Klint, founder & CEO LevelK

Jan Syrucek, producer

Enzo Porcelli, producer

Rodica Lazar, actor

Jordi Xifra, director Centro Buñuel Calanda

Peter Keglevic, director and writer

Malin Johansson, film director

Tom Conroy, production designer

Wiktor Zborowski, actor

Marco Borromei, screenwriter

Yannis Sakaridis, film director-writer, artistic director DISFF

Radu Jude, Romanian filmmaker

Valleri Robinson, theatre historian

Jaap van Heusden, film director

Igor Kecman, producer

Marko Stanković, producer

Vanja Kovačević, producer, editor, director

Jelena Mitrović, producer

Nikolina Vučetić Zečević, producer

Maja Popović Milojević, producer

Čarna Vučinić, producer

Stefan Ivančić, producer

Milan Stojanović, producer

Branislav Trifunović, actor, producer

Nataša Damnjanović, producer

Dušan Vojvodić, producer

Snežana van Houwelingen, producer

Milena Šmigić, producer

Jelena Angelovski, producer

Dragana Jovović, producer

Mirko Bojović, producer

Miloš Pušić, producer

Vuk Ršumović, producer, director

Miloš Ljubomirović, producer, director

Igor Kecman, producer

Marko Stanković, producer

Vanja Kovačević, producer, editor, director

Joshua Sinclair, actor

Tim Fywell, writer/director

Birgit Oberkofler, head Film Fund & Commission

Costas Ferris, film and TV director

Jasna Đuričić, actress

Leonie Benesch, actress

Eitan Green, director and screenwriter

Ester Gould, film director

Elma Tataragić, screenwriter and festival programmer

Pia Tjelta, actor

Šimon Holý, director

Alberto Torres, film music composer

Meritxell Colell Aparicio, director

Aleš Březina, composer

Alexandra Hoesdorff, film producer

Igor Soukmanov, Film expert, publicist, festival programmer

Florian Cossen, film director

Julie Delpy, actress and screenwriter

Marianne Slot, producer

Meryem Yavuz, cinematographer

Jan Speckenbach, director

Henner Winckler, film director

Milan Dor, screenwriter / producer

Anette Keiser, makeup artist

Marita Breuer, actress

Maja Šuša, actress

Clara Notari, directora de arte - Escenógrafa

Olivia Hetreed Screenwriter

Angelina Maccarone, film director

John Goldschmidt, film director

Helge Albers, MOIN Film Fund

Licia Eminenti, director, scriptwriter

Marcel Gisler, Swiss Film director and screenwriter

Gamila Ylstra, independent board executive film funding

Lynda Mamy, retired representative of filmmakers in the UK

Thomas Darchinger, actor

Alexandra Montag, casting director

SIMÓN DE SANTIAGO AREIZAGA, film producer

Zaida Bergroth, film director

Gertrud Pinkus, director from Switzerland, Member by EFA

Soren Hellerup, actor , theater director

Albert Wiederspiel, manager

Uldis Cekulis, producer

Rafael Morais, actor

Marcel Lozinski, film director

Lynda Myles, producer

Lyubo Yonchev, film director, producer

Rainer Wöss, actor

Egil Ødegård, producer

Nenad Pirnat, film editor

Sandra Nettelbeck, film director, screenwriter

Carlos Nogueira, film programmer 

Ewa Więckowska-Miętkiewicz, president / Warsaw Film Foundation / Warsaw

Film Festival

Nebojsa Slijepcevic, film director

Francesco Montagner, film director and mentor

Laura Kaehr, film Writer & director

Sotiris Petridis, PhD, adjunct Professor in Film Studies Hellenic Open University

Wolfgang Richter, documentary director

Jay Weissberg, director Giornate del cinema muto / Pordenone Silent Film Festival

Vanja Juranić, film director

Simeon Ventsislavov, scriptwriter

Chiara Galloni, producer

Heino Deckert, producer

Sara Serraiocco, actress

Louis CRELIER, composer

Nicolette Krebitz, filmmaker

Bogdan Mureșanu, director and producer

Constantin Symsiris , actor, European film Academy

Anna Hints, film director, European Film Academy member

Juste Michailinaite, film producer

Wojciech Włodarski, editor

Jelena Maksimović, editor and director

Job ter Burg, film editor

Ricard Balada, a Spanish actor, member of the European Film Academy

João Antunes, film critic and producer, EFA Member

Andre Bendocchi-Alves, sound designer

Mimmi Spång, producer

Frank Berry, writer and director

Matthias Müsse, production Designer

Ninos Feneck Mikelides, journalist, director of Panorama of European Cinema film festival

Joram Willink, film producer BIND, The Netherlands

Fabian Haslob, Agent, CEO Players Agency

Damien McDonald, producer

Corinna Dästner, producer

Frederik Nicolai, producer

Rudolf van den Berg, writer and director

Karsten Stöter, producer

Uljana Kim, film producer

Janine Marmot, producer

Jonathan Halperyn, producer

Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem, screenwriter

Jacek Lusinski, director/scriptwriter

Dennis Ruh, film and media Industry director

Jonas Rothlaender / film director, writer

Iram Haq, filmmaker

Britt Sørensen, film critic, Norway

Mia Mullarkey, film director & writer

Daphne Alexander, actress

Jonas Weydemann, film producer, Germany

Iain Harvey, producer

Dan Clifton, writer, director

Neus Ballús, filmmaker from Barcelona

Mees Peijnenburg, film director and screenwriter

Lenka Tyrpakova, festival programmer, curator, consultant

Ana Lungu, director

Darya Bassel, producer, head of industry at Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Martin I. Petrov, festival Director, World of film international festival Glasgow

Azra Deniz Okyay, director, screenwriter

Pjer Žalica, director, screenwriter, producer, Bosna i Hercegovina

Fabian Driehorst, producer

Uberto Pasolini, producer, director

Shoshi Korman, co-Managing Director Chinephil

Gary Yershon, composer

Marco Mehlitz, producer

Bettina Schwarz, head of Awarding Procedures, European Film Academy

Greg Dinner, writer, filmmaker

Marija Stojanović, producer

Andrijana Sofranić Šućur, producer

Mila Turajlić, director, producer

Gordan Kičić, director, producer, actor

Edgar Dubrovskiy, documentary cinematographer, director

Maryna Er Gorbach, film director, screenwriter

Kate Bone, casting associate

Denis Côté, film director

Judit Olah documentary film director

Sara Radusinović, film director

Carmen Gray, film programmer and critic

Massimo Tria, film critic

Stefan Schubert, producer

Lilette Botassi, producer

Alex Szalat, head of Docs Up Fund

Martin Rattini, producer

André Libik, retired German-Hungarian film producer, director, writer

Marek Novák, film producer

Simon Perry, film producer, trainer, consultant

Olena Yershova Yildiz,  producer, TatoFilm / Kino Iberica

Romas Zabarauskas, film director

Alex Teodorescu, executive producer & founder of Saga Film Romania

Anna M. Bofarull, filmmaker

Boris Isaković, actor and professor of acting

Wim De Witte, program director Film Fest Gent

Renée Gundelach, German executive producer

Laura Pedro Albiol VFX Supervisor and a member of the European Film Academy

Zuzana Gindl-Tatarova, screenwriter and dramaturge, Slovakia

Gary Marlowe, composer

Christoph Krauss, cinematographer

Samuel Fröler, actor

Benoit Blanchard, producer

Kenneth Scicluna, filmmaker

Lorenz Dangel, composer

Marion Bailey, actor

Christine Dollhofer, Vienna Film Fund

Jakub Viktorín, producer

Marinos Kartikkis, screenwriter, director

Anna Próchniak, actress

Rasa Samuolyte, actress

Jacques-Henri Bronckart, producer

Marc Bauder, director, producer

Osman Bayraktaroğlu, film editor

Michele Fornasero, cinematographer

Roland Meyer de Voltaire, film music composer

Kamila Dohnalová, producer

Cordelia Dvorák, director

Ilja Stenberg, producer

Cassandra Han, casting director

Frank Kusche, film producer

Antonia Fenn, film editor

Laurent Lavolé, producer

Thekla Reuten, actress

Pamela Katz, screenwriter

Andreas Nickl, actor and director and member of Deutsche Filmakakdemie

Gesa Jäger, German film editor

Kristina Konrad, filmmaker, producer

Daniela Knapp, DoP

Erik Poppe, director

Marco Kreuzpaintner, director, screenwriter

Toni D’Angelo, Italian director

Peter Bencsik, cinematographer

Marianne Hougen-Moraga, film director

Andrés Duque, Filmmaker

Vasco Pimentel, sound designer

Damir Markovina, filmmaker and actor

Barbara Berndorff, film lawyer

Jadranka Blanuša, producer

Darko Lungulov, producer, director

Miroslav Mogorović, producer

Milan Todorović, producer, director

Bruno Chatelin, filmfestivals.com founder

Michele Josia, composer

Iris Berben, actress

Jan Maxa, TV and film producer

Sasha Wieser, world sales, CEO of EastWest distribution

Gudny Hummelvoll, producer, member EFA

Fien Troch, film director

Dariusz Jablonski, director, producer, chairman, Polska Akademia Filmowa

Esther Gronenborn, film director and screenwriter

Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor

Kjell-Åke Andersson, director and screenwriter

Boris T. Matić, film producer, Propeler Film / Zagreb Film Festival

Kim Riedle, actress

Anders Birkeland, producer

Ulrike Folkerts, actress

Oliver Hirschbiegel, director

Ilinca Manolache, actress

Sergej Ashkenazy, film director

Haig Balian, film Distributor, producer and exhibitor, museum maker, zoodirector

Marko Mandić, actor

Andonis Trattos, editor

Andreas Pietschmann, actor

Anja Kofmel, director, Switzerland

Sinisa Juricic, producer

Marco Simon Puccioni, writer, director

Daniela Ciancio, costume designer

Sebastian Morsch, sound designer, professor for sound design, Filmuniversität Babelsberg

Mas Trelles, director, producer and festival director

Karyofyllia Karampeti, actress

Michael Smeaton, producer

Eva Mattes, actress

Felipe Lage Coro, producer and member of the European Film Academy

Yasemin Şamdereli, director

Simon Gutknecht, film editor

Ilona Schulz , actress

Jan-Eric Mack, director

Barbara Albert, director, writer, producer

Verena Schilling, studio executive

Katja Gauriloff, film director and writer

Valeriy Kalmykov, producer, founder of the company Trueman production, Odessa, Ukraine

Marina Aebi, hair & makeup artist, Switzerland

Arto Halonen, film director

Thomas Kufus, CEO, producer

Radu Stancu, Romanian film producer

Ulrich Matthes, actor

Andreas Rocksén, producer

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer, actor Sweden/Germany

Markus Aust, composer, Cologne

Catrin Vogt, film editor

Andrea Muñoz, editor

Rike Russig, costume designer

Eva-Maria Stiebler, production design

Niels Arden Oplev, director and writer

Tania Stöcklin, film editor

Gyda Velvin Myklebust, head of New Nordic Films, The Norwegian Int. Film Festival in Haugesund

M. Siam, film director

Karl Fischer, actor

Susi Stach, actress

Esther Zimmering, actress, director, writer from Germany

Hanka Knipper, editor

Katia Pascariu, actress, Romania

Jonatan Pastirčák, musician, sound designer, Slovakia

Ella van der Woude, film composer, European film academy member, Dutch Film Academy member

Melina Koljević, screenwriter, Serbia

Jane Ainscough, scriptwriter

Claus Philipp, dramaturg, writer

Christopher Aoun, director of photography

Timo Jacobs, actor, director, producer

Argyris Xafis, actor, director

Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC, GCA, cinematographer

Rachel Braunschweig, actress, Switzerland

John Chambers, writer

Mattias Frik, talent agent

Julian Rodd, film editor, EFA Member

Marie-Lou Sellem, actress & filmmaker, Germany

Merle Grimme, director & screenwriter

Christoph Hübner, director

Paul-Razvan Macovei, director

Marija Dimitrova, producer

Hansjörg Weißbrich, film editor

Katja Riemann, actress

Janine Jackowski, producer and founder of Komplizen Film

Händl Klaus, film director

Volodymyr Yatsenko, Ukrainian film producer

Inuk Jørgensen, director

Francisco Cuadrado, composer and sound designer

Patrick Veigel, sound mixer, Germany

Jamila Wenske, producer

Mina Mileva, Bulgarian filmmaker

Vesela Kazakova, Bulgarian filmmaker

Pilar Palomero, film director and screenwriter, Spain

Hervé Le Phuez, director Wallonie Bruxelles Images

Charly Hübner, actor & director, Germany

Svetoslav Draganov, filmmaker from Bulgaria, member of EFA

Titas Petrikis, composer

Jacopo Chessa, managing director Veneto Film Commission

Alexander Donev, producer

Thomas Lindahl, film composer, EFA member

Emily Atef, German-French filmmaker

Josef Hader, Austrian comedian and actor

Francesco Virga, producer

Levana Finkelstein, Israeli actress and sculptor  

Nicolas Steiner, director

August Zirner, director

Stefan Will,  film composer

Riccarda Merten-Eicher, costume designer

Myriel Milićević, artist

Antonio Piazza, film director

Gustav Peter Wöhler, actor

Catrin Wideryd, casting director, member of ICDA

Leslie Hills, film producer

Stéphan Castang, director

Marc Parisotto, film tonmeister

Levan Lomjaria, filmmaker

Hanna Schygulla, actress

Janez Lapajne, director

Kostadin Bonev, Bulgarian Filmmaker, member of EFA

Martina Valentina Baumgartner, filmmaker

Fred Ponsard, journalist

Nancy Bishop, casting director, UK

Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, actor

Sylva Häutle, head of Festival Relations, German Films

Konstantin Bojanov, writer, director

Carole Scotta, film producer

Maximilian Lange, president of ARTSCENICO European Federation for Costume and Production Design

Sophie Maintigneux, cinematographer

Dominik Berg, director of photography

Marion Kracht, German actress, member of the German film Academy

Federico Conforti, picture editor

Wieland Speck, filmmaker curator

Sebastian Markt, head of Berlinale Generation

Dirk Borchardt, German actor

Ivan Knežević, screenwriter

Branka Katic, actress from Serbia

Maike Heinlein, makeup artist

Martin Baer, filmmaker

Dimitris Koliodimos, writer, film critic

Axel Engstfeld, producer / director, Cologne Germany

Elena Subira Roca, cultural manager and fundraiser

Christoph Fisser, producer

Lele  Marchitelli, composer

Sebastian Blomberg, actor

Ivo Kummer, EX head of Film Departement Switzerland

Nic Nagel, member of the german filmakademie

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schreitmüller, former head of Cinema and Fiction Unit of ARTE, professor of Media Studies at the University of Constance

Antonio Saura, managing director LATIDO

Nina Kunzendorf, actress

Tizian Büchi, filmmaker & Programmer, Switzerland

Anders Villadsen, filmeditor

Claudia Lorenz, film director, Switzerland

Sung-Hyung Cho, documentary director

Pilar Saavedra Perrotta, producer, CEO, representing Sajama Films and Palosanto Films, Italy

Myrna Tsapa, film director

Eroll Bilibani, DokuFest, EFA member

Donato Carrisi, writer, screenwriter and director, EFA member

Anna Bławut Mazurkiewicz, producer

Michael Klammer, actor

Yair Hochner, Tel Aviv LGBTq+ Film Festival director, film critic

Marie-Lou Sellem, actress

Silke Rodenbach, talent management

Claudia Landsberger, BASEWORX for film

Aleksandar Aleksiev, actor and producer

Mieke de Jong, scriptwriter from The Netherlands

Dagmar Knöpfel, director and writer

Adam Kruk, film critic

Hans-Werner Meyer, German actor

Jean-Christophe Reymond, Kazak Production, producer of Titane, Palme d’Or 2021

Juliane Lorenz-Wehling, member of the European Film Academy, German Film Academy,  president / CEO of The Rainer Werner Werner Fassbinder Foundation, Berlin

Giovanni robbiano, EFA member, screenwriter, producer, Italy

Rainer Rother, artistic director German Cinematheque

Sten Hassing Clement, CEO, manager, artist representative

Ernst Ludwig Ganzert, CEO, producer

Dusan Kasalica, screenwriter, director and producer

Peeter Rebane, director, Estonia

Virginie Devesa, Co-ceo, Alpha Violet World sales

Kit Hopkins,screenwriter

Laura Schroeder, director and screenwriter, Luxembourg

Christine Ghazarian, film consultant

Javor Gardev, director, EFA Member, Bulgaria

Ernst Ludwig Ganzert, film producer

Soni Jorgensen, screenwriter

Uli Aselmann, television producer

Luis Ivars, film composer

Sigal Yehuda, founder & executive director

Martin Behne, screenwriter and Member of the European Film academy

Carolina Steinbrecher, DOP

Diana El Jeiroudi, CEO, managing director

Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich, documentary filmmaker

Michal Szczesniak, director, screenwriter

Patrick Joswig, actor

Popo Fan, director, writer, Berlin

Petra Lüschow, writer, director

Tamara Conboy, production designer

Ana Lungu, Romanian film director, member of EFA

Nerina T. Kocjančič, head of Promotion and Distribution, Slovenian Film Centre

Graziella Bildesheim, producer

Sabine Böbbis, costume designer, Hamburg

Claudia von Alemann, film director, author, independent producer

René Perraudin, film director

Michael Souvignier, film producer

Judy Shrewsbury, costume designer, France

Angela Roy, member of German Filmakademy

Johannes Jancke, film producer from Germany

Olga Lamontanara, producer, Switzerland

Alen Drljević, film director

Maria Knilli, author and director, Munich

Franziska Buch, movie director, screenplay writer, member of the German Film Academy

Kutlug Ataman, director

Gabriele Voss, author, editor

Stephanie Stremler, actress

Frieder Schlaich, producer, director from Berlin

Roberts Vinovskis, producer, Latvia

Mala Emde, actress

Paul Thiltges, producer, sales agent

Riton Dupire-Clément, production designer, president of ADC, association des chefs décorateurs de cinéma, France,  association of the french production designers, member of the EFA

Wolfgang Groos, director

Yana Kalmykova, CEO of Trueman Production, Ukraine

Charlotte Pedersen, producer, New Era Production ApS

Judit Elek, director and screenwriter

Mardou Jacobs, producent

Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos, actor

Pascal Capitolin, French FileMaker and sound designer, Berlin

Laurent Micheli, director

Elfie Donnelly, screenwriter

Ove Rishøj Jensen, producer, consultant, Denmark

Agron Domi, EFA Member, Tirana Film Institute, production & distribution

Damir Ibrahimovic,  producer, Deblokada, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Christopher Hampton, writer

Birte Schnöink, actress

Dieter Berner, film director

Christos Massalas, director

Corinna Glaus, casting director

Samir Ljuma, cinematographer

Maike Höhne, director, screenwriter, curator

Welket Bungué, actor, director

Iva Tkalec, producer

Anneke Kim Sarnau, actress

Anna Hoffmann, Curator, Program Manager, Berlinale Forum

Hans Petter Moland, film director

Mikołaj Pokromski, film producer

Christoph Röhl, director, scriptwriter

Bibiana Beglau, actress

Wasiliki Bleser, producer

Hermann Florin, producer, Germany

Steffi Niederzoll, German director

Ina Peichl, production designer

Michael Seeber, film director

Frank Kruse, sound designer

Paulina Lorenz, film producer

Maria Nevina Satta, Board Member of the European Film Academy

Jörg Widmer, cinematographer

Gunnar Berhdal, director

Katy Karrenbauer, actress, autor

Stefanie Gredig, hair & make-up design

Thomas Hakim, producer

Heiko Hentschel, visual artist

Camille Chandellier, producer

Iva Plemić Divjak, producer

Ivan Barnev, actor

Carlos Pereira, film director

Lionel Massol, producer

Stevan Filipovic, writer/director, Professor at FDU Belgrade

Detlew V. Buck, director

Marie Bäumer, German actress

Britta Hammelstein, actress

Gregor Arnold, sound designer,  re-recording mixer

Lisa Hagmeister, actress

Ramin Yazdani, actor, member of German Film Academy

Josip Jurčić, journalist

Börje Hansson, managing director Bright Moving Pictures Sweden AB

Christoph von Schönburg, sound designer

Ate De Jong, film director, producer, UK/Netherlands

Sylvie Leray, producer, distributor, CEO of Reverso Films, Spain

Klaus Stern, director

Dr Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun, film director, head of Supervisory Board of Directors' Guild of Ukraine

Reiner Holzemer, documentary filmmaker

Thanassis Karathanos, film producer

Håkan Lindhé,film director

Patrice Nezan, producer

Leire Apellaniz, film director, producer

Markus Kaatsch, producer

Dana Rotberg, film director, Mexico

Cornelia Ott, supervising art director

Dominique Deruddere, writer, director, producer, Belgium

Nana Ekvtimishvili, director, Georgia

Mario Zanot, director, producer

Joana Szymańska, producer

Maria Razgutė, producer

Leontine Petit, Producer

Bettina Brokemper, producer

Başak Emre Pundurs, festival programmer

Hanka Kastelicová, commissioning editor

Giorgos Karnavas, producer

Paz Lázaro Barquilla, producer

Anne-Lajla Utsi, Sámi International Film Institute

Mira Staleva, producer, distributor, festival programmer

Yan Decoppet, producer, Switzerland

Magdalena Bojdo, cinematographer

Stefan Kurt, actor

Marek Nowowiejski, film producer

Anne Thieme, screenwriter & director

Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, script and project consultant, Germany

Simona Caparrini, actress and screenwriter

Gesa Marten, film editor

Aceituno Maldonado, director español miembro de la Academia del Cine europeo

Zrinko Ogresta, film director, Croatia

Petar Markovic film editor, member of AMPAS

Simon Norrthon - President, Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film

David Bernet, documentary filmmaker, head of the German Documentary association AG DOK

Vladimir Arsenijević, writer, Belgrade

Ilya Zhuravel, musician, Jerusalem

Jakub Novosad, literary translator

Gleb Pushev, artist

Anya Gladysheva, artist

Marko Vodojković, writer, journalist, Belgrade

Alexander Gordon, violist, conductor, Vienna

Rumena Bužarovska, writer

Diana Çuli, writer

Lejla Kalamujić, writer

Ivana Sajko, writer

Mima Simić, writer, activist and translator

Barbi Marković, writer

Barbara Delac, writer

Kostadin Bonev, film director

Martin Šulík, film director

Organisations Endorsing the Letter

GFI - Georgian Film Institute

DOCA - Documentary Association Georgia

Ukrainian Film Academy

National Association of filmmakers of Ukraine