Jury for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award for Best Creative Use of Archive

Azza El-Hassan is a filmmaker and a Professor of media practices at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. She is the winner of various international film awards and the recipient of the BAFTSS Outstanding Achievement Award in 2025. She is known for The Unbearable Presence of Asmahan (2014), Kings & Extras (2004), and News Time (2001). She is also the author of the book The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance. In 2019, El-Hassan founded The Void Project, a multimedia production space that artistically explores the effects and possible modern uses of images that have survived colonial plunder. Through The Void Project, she has also restored a collection of films from the Palestinian Revolutionary era. While the films she made so far, the ones she restored and the book she wrote are all very close to her, El-Hassan describes as her most personal work the film which is scheduled to be released early next year, The Lost Film of My Mother. She has served as a jury member at various international film festivals, most recently at Yamagata Film Festival (2025).

Dana Bunescu is a film editor and sound designer based in Bucharest, Romania. She studied Physics at the University of Bucharest and graduated in Editing and Sound at the National University of Theater and Film, Bucharest. As an editor and sound designer, she collaborated with numerous renowned Romanian New Wave film directors in both fiction and documentary. She has co-directed the documentaries The Distance Between Me and Me (with Mona Nicoarǎ) and The Chalice – About Sons and Daughters (with Cătălina Tesǎr). She was awarded the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the Berlinale 2017 for editing the fiction film Ana, mon amour. For the past decade, her interests have significantly shifted towards documentary film, partly as a result of daily social and political interactions, and partly as a grounds for more in-depth research into the evolution of these experiences and events. It is also a form of therapy and fear relief, feeding a pressing need and curiosity. 

Kong Rithdee is currently an executive member of the Thai Film Foundation, an agency promoting film culture and education. From 2019 to 2026, he served as a Deputy Director and Head Programmer at the Thai Film Archive, Thailand’s state-funded preservation institution and cinematheque. Kong is also a writer, screenwriter and literary translator. He co-directed the documentary film The Convert, presented at Busan and Yamagata in 2008, and Baby Arabia, showing at Vancouver in 2010. His short doc Gaddafi was screened at IDFA in 2013.