FEATURE DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION JURY

Raja Amari is a Tunisian film director. A graduate of La Fémis (France’s National School of Image and Sound), she won the First Prize at the Festival of African Film in Milan in 2001 for One Evening in July. Her debut feature, Satin Rouge (2002), premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, while Buried Secrets (Anonymes) was part of the official selection at the Venice Film Festival.Her other films include Tunisian Spring, Foreign Body, and Seekers of Oblivion. Raja Amari is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars).

Nadia Kaabi-Linke is a Tunisian artist.Her works have been featured in major international collections and exhibitions, including Sharjah, Lyon, Liverpool, Venice, Lahore, Bruges, and Kochi-Muziris. Kaabi-Linke has received several prestigious awards, including the Ithra Prize, the François Schneider Prize, and Art Basel Discovery.

Laura Nikolov is a French producer committed to independent and multicultural cinema. In 2023, she founded Coorigines Productions and co-produced several Arab films, including Spring Came On Laughing by Egyptian director Noha Adel, From Ground Zero and Passing Dreams by Rashid Masharawi, and Aisha Can’t Fly Away by Morad Mostafa. She is currently developing a range of documentary and fiction projects.

Eliane Raheb
Eliane Raheb is a Lebanese screenwriter and director . After studying film, she directed and produced several short and documentary films, including Suicide, So Near Yet So Far, and This Is Lebanon, which won the Award of Excellence at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
Her first feature documentary, Sleepless Nights (2012), was followed by Miguel’s War, which won the Teddy Award at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival.
Through her films, Eliane Raheb documents the Lebanese Civil War and its aftermath. She is also a co-founder of Aflamuna, a cultural association that supports independent cinema in the Arab world.

Alassane Diago is a Senegalese filmmaker with a lifelong passion for writing. After studying philosophy in Dakar, he was mentored by documentary filmmaker Samba Félix Ndiaye. He also took part in several training programs in screenwriting and directing.
His debut feature documentary Les Larmes de l’émigration won the Casa África Award at the Tarifa African Film Festival in Spain and at the Namur International Francophone Film Festival.