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The Women Exhibitors’ Choice at ATAFF -
Alexandre Trauner Art/Film Festival, Szolnok, Hungary 14-19 October 2025
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For precise, attuned filmmaking and its deeply compassionate portrait of a woman navigating grief, work, and agency, we honor KIKA. Alexe Poukine's direction refuses to sentimentalize or fetishize sex work, placing the audience with Kika rather than outside the story as voyeurs, and tracing her arc from social worker to sex worker with clarity and credibility. The film observes, with rare tact, the camaraderie among women and the way connection, understanding, acceptance, and vulnerability emerge in social obscurity when formal networks fall short; Kika's own training as a social worker underscores how she is failed by the structures meant to protect her. Guided by an extraordinary central performance and attentive camerawork, the film cultivates intimacy and trust, directing what we feel as much as what we see. |
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The Jury
Isabella Flucher
Coming from the field of art history, literature and film studies, she has worked in various cultural institutions. Since 2025, she has been artistic co-director of "this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival" in Vienna. Prior to that, she worked in film distribution in Germany and Austria and was a curator of short film programmes.
Erika Borsos
She is the filmprogrammer for Top Kino and Schikaneder in Vienna, Austria and the curatorial and artistic co-director of "this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival". Born in former Yugoslavia, she later lived in Budapest, Hungary, for 30 years and is currently living in Vienna, Austria. She has worked in many sector of film industry, including working at art cinemas and organizing and managing film festivals. Erika has been the managing director of the Odeon film distribution company for 15 years and worked as the Head of the Film Programming at Budapest Film Zrt for 10 years.
Jasna Pintarič
She has been Head of Programming at the Slovenian Film Database (BSF) since 2020. She is the editor of Slovenian film catalogues for the Slovenian Film Centre and coordinates the retrospective “Oriente Vzhod / Occidente Zahod – Border Through Film and History”, an official European Capital of Culture programme. She was part of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel mentoring programme (2022) and the Erich Pommer Institute’s Audiovisual Women (2023).
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