Lili
Award
Our awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short Film are named after Danish transgender artist Lili Elbe, who was among the first people in recorded Western trans* history to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1930. The Lili Award is granted to remarkable films in their category that challenge existing norms of sexuality and gender. These films are nominated by MIX's programmers and selected by our international jury panel.
Jury
Matthew Huang
(he/him)
Coming from the IVLP program and Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline, Matthew Huang (he/him) has been active in Chinaโs queer community since 2013. He co-founded the Chengdu LGBT Center โ awarded the French Human Rights Prize in 2022 โ and the Love Queer Cinema Week in Chengdu in 2016. His focus is on LGBTQ outreach, capacity building, organizational operations, and growth.
May Ziadรฉ
(she/her)
May Ziadรฉ (she/her) is a French-Lebanese film worker and filmmaker based in London. Her most recent short film, โNeo Nahdaโ, was nominated for the Lili Award in 2023. May is also the co-founder of the production company Other Peopleโs Films.
Sarnt Utamachote
(they/them)
Sarnt Utamachote (they/them) is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. Besides curating exhibitions about Asian artists and histories in Germany, they work as programmer for XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, IKFF Hamburg, and SInema Transtopia, Their recent short โI donโt want to be just a memoryโ premiered at Berlinale 2024.
Thit Aaberg
(they/them)
Thit Aaberg (they/them) is a Danish actor with experience in theater, television, and film. Their passion lies in telling a good story, not just through the script, but also through the interplay between sound, lighting, editing, acting, and more.
