SHORT FILMS AND CINÉ PROMESSE COMPETITION JURY

Dr. Hikmat Al-Beedhani is a filmmaker and professor at the University of Baghdad, where he heads the Department of Cinema. Holding a Ph.D. in Sound Engineering, he directs the Baghdad International Film Festival and has served on numerous film juries across the Arab world.

A Senegalese journalist, film critic, and poet. He studied communication and media sciences as well as contemporary French literature. He writes for several newspapers and magazines in Senegal, Belgium, and beyond, and has been a member of the African Federation of Film Critics since 2007. He served on the Critics’ Committee at the Carthage Film Festival in 2016 and on the Jury of the Saint Louis International Documentary Film Festival in Senegal in 2019.

A Lebanese film producer and director. He studied advertising design and worked in the fields of advertising and media. He has carried out numerous creative design, animation, and post-production projects for both commercial and documentary works. He has also served as a film programmer and consultant for several international festivals. In 2013, he founded the Tripoli Film Festival, driven by his belief in the power of culture to uplift his city as it heals from the scars of war

Nadia Raïs was born in Tunis and holds a master’s degree in fine arts. She has participated in numerous art exhibitions, completed an artist residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2012–2013), and directed five animated short films: L’Ambouba, L’Mrayet, Survival Visa, Briska, and Kendila. Her short films have been selected for many international festivals, including the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and have been broadcast on TV5 Monde and the BBC.

Sara Suliman is a UK-based Sudanese filmmaker, researcher, and the founder of Fenti Productions. In 2017, she was awarded an MA in gender studies from Soas, University of London. Her debut feature documentary, Heroic Bodies, was the first Sudanese feature film to be screened at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2022.