Jury for the Envision Competition

Ansuya Blom has built an oeuvre that explores the boundaries of the world of our inner experiences. In drawings, collages, films and installations, she unravels the complex relationships humans maintain with themselves and the external world. Solo exhibitions of Blom’s work have been held at Camden Arts Centre (London), The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and Huis Amelisweerd in collaboration with Centraal Museum (Utrecht). Her work was part of Aperto 90 at the Venice Biennal. Her films have been screened at IFFR, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, IDFA and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

Her work is part of various private and public collections such as Stedelijk Museum, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Tate Modern, and Centraal Museum. In recent years, Eye Filmmuseum has been working with the artist to conserve and restore her films. Blom is a regular advisor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2020 she was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Price for Art for her oeuvre.  

Gladys Joujou is a film editor of Lebanese origin. Her work on fiction films spans from Hollywood productions such as Oliver Stone’s Alexander (2004) to independent films such as Ghassan Salhab’s Beyrouth Fantôme (1998), Philippe Van Leeuw’s InSyriated (2017), and Carlos Chahine’s Mother Valley (2023).

Her work on documentaries includes Nadine Naous’s Chacun sa Palestine (2006), Raed Andoni’s Ghost Hunting (2017), Suhaib Gasmelbari’s Talking About Trees (2019), Rami Farah’s Our Memory Belongs to Us (2021), Samaher Elqadi’s As I Want (2021), Boubacar Sangaré’s A Golden Life (2023), Khaled Jarrar’s Notes on Displacement (2023), Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias (2023), and Hind Meddeb’s Sudan, Remember Us (2024). Most of the films she edited have been shown and awarded at festivals around the world. Gladys often works as a story consultant and editing tutor at international documentary workshops. 

Ignacio Agüero primarily focuses on documentary filmmaking. His work has won numerous awards and led to retrospectives in the Americas and Europe. In 2015, he received the Prince Claus Award in Amsterdam, in 2016 and 2019 he won the Grand Prize at FIDMarseille, and in 2019 he won Best Latin American Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. He has also made telefilms for Chilean television and has acted in numerous films.

Agüero conducts film workshops for children and primary school teachers through the Red Cero en Conducta network. He is a tenured professor at the University of Chile, where he teaches a documentary workshop at the film school. His most recent documentary, Letters to My Dead Parents (2025) has been presented at FIDMarseille, Doc Buenos Aires, Cinemancia, EDOC-Ecuador, Pancevo Film Fest, Yamagata, FICValdivia, DocLisboa, Viennale, and is now being presented at IDFA in the Signed program section. He is currently preparing his next film. 

Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti form a cutting-edge filmmaking duo that reshaped the notion of documentary while spearheading the new wave of Italian cinema of the noughties. Their films have screened all over the world at festivals including Mostra Venice, Hot Docs, Berlinale, Seoul, and Locarno, winning multiple awards and receiving critical praise worldwide. Deeply poetical but also rigorously political in their work philosophy, they create films that question our relationship to space and society.

D’Anolfi and Parenti directed nine feature-length documentaries and two short films, with each new work pushing their ambitions towards uncharted territories. Their feature-length films include their debut I promessi sposi (2007), Il castello (2011), awarded at Hot Docs, Seoul, Torino and IDA), Spira Mirabilis (2016), which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, and Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari (2024), which premiered in Venice went on to win the award for Best Directing in the Envision Competition at IDFA.

Salomé Jashi is a documentary filmmaker and cultural actor from Georgia. She is chairperson and co-founder of Documentary Association (DOCA) Georgia. She produces her films through Sakdoc Film, which she co-founded in 2008. Jashi’s Taming the Garden (2021) premiered in Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, screened at Berlinale Forum and was nominated for the European Film Awards. The Dazzling Light of Sunset (2016) was awarded at Visions du Réel, Jihlava IFF, FIC Valdivia, and Zagrebdox. Her mid-length Bakhmaro (2011) was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Silver Eye Awards after premiering at DOK Leipzig. Her producing work How the Room Felt (2021) premiered in IDFA’s main competition. 

The body of her work including features and shorts was celebrated at BAMPFA in a series of screenings and talks in 2023. She tutors and gives talks on documentary filmmaking internationally. Salomé Jashi is the recipient of the Berlin Art Prize 2024 and European Cultural Award KAIROS Prize 2024. She was a fellow of DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program 2020.