Jury
Ilyas Yourish
Ilyas Yourish founded Kamay Film in Afghanistan in 2018 to explore identity, trauma, history, and memory through cinema. After the Taliban’s return in 2021, he was forced into exile and is now based in Belgium. His debut documentary Kamay premiered at Visions du Réel 2024, won multiple awards, and screened at over 30 international festivals. Ilyas now leads the Brussels-based company CONGOO, focused on bold, author-driven cinema. He has co-produced for The Guardian and is developing several feature documentaries supported by leading international film funds and exhibited in European and North American markets.
Robert Tomić Zuber
Robert Tomić Zuber is a journalist, director and a producer who has more than twenty years of experience working as a journalist and editor in the Croatian press, on radio and on television, as well as working for international media like the BBC. He has received two awards from the Croatian Journalists’ Association for his work. Over the past decade he has directed four long feature documentaries. At the Station in Pula (2001), Accidental Son (2008), Mila Seeking Senida (2010) awarded with the Human Rights Award at Sarajevo Film Festival, Million Dollar Life (2017). From 2013 – 2016 he was Head of Documentary Production on Croatian national television. Today he is a freelancer, and owner of a production house TOROlab, and lecturer at Zagreb’s faculty of Vern. He is founder and director of RAFF - Rab Film Festival in Croatia.
Sabrina Brandt
Sabrina Brandt is the Director of Human Rights Watch Netherlands.