Jury for the Envision Competition

Born in Tehran, Iran, Firouzeh Khosrovani studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. She began her filmmaking career with the documentary Life Train (2004). Her 2007 film Rough Cut, which explores mutilated mannequins in Tehran’s shop windows, won 13 awards at international festivals. Her video art piece Cutting Off (2008) was exhibited at the Triennale di Milano. She later directed 1001 Irans (2010) and contributed short films to the collective documentaries Espelho meu (2011), Archivio a Oriente (2012), and Profession: Documentarist (2014). Her film Fest of Duty received the Oxfam Global Justice Award at IDFA 2014, and Radiograph of a Family, a portrait of her secular father and devout Muslim mother, won both the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary and the ReFrame Award for creative use of archive materials at IDFA 2020, along with 34 additional international awards. In 2022, she was invited to join the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2025, she co-directed Past Future Continuous, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and went on to win IDFA Award for Best Film - Envision Competition.

Hélder Beja is Director of Doclisboa International Film Festival and a board member of the Portuguese documentary association Apordoc. His work as an author, editor, programmer and screenwriter moves between cinema, literature, journalism and anthropology, shaped by a long engagement with Asia and China, where he lived for nearly a decade. He began his career in journalism and has published hundreds of articles, interviews and film and literary reviews in Portugal, Asia, Brazil and elsewhere. He was Co-Founder and Program Director of The Script Road – Macau Literary Festival from 2012 to 2018, making it a meeting point for artists from China, the Portuguese-speaking world and beyond, reflecting his longstanding interest in crossing artistic disciplines and geographies. His work in cinema encompasses programming, criticism, and screenwriting. He co-wrote the feature film Projecto Global (selected for IFFR 2026) and is currently working on two new features. Since joining Doclisboa in 2023, he has worked across its communication, programming, and artistic strategy, becoming its director in 2025. He has participated as a jury member and speaker at several international film festivals, including Guadalajara IFF, Documenta Madrid, the Berlinale and Sarajevo IFF.

Since 2018, Hicham Khalidi has been director of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands, a post-academic institute which offers residencies to international artists, designers, writers, curators and other artistic researchers and makers. In 2026, Khalidi curated the exhibition Eye(s) Open: New Perspectives on Colonial Film Heritage at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. He was the curator of the Dutch entry for the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. From 2015 to 2018, Khalidi worked as associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. He was also the curator of group exhibition ACT II for the Sharjah Biennale in Beirut in 2017, cultural attaché of the Sydney Biennale in 2016 and chief curator of the Marrakech Biennale in 2014. As a curator, Khalidi is interested in the context and conditions related to contemporary art and art-institutional practices, and specifically in how the climate emergency, the accumulation of crises and processes of colonialism affect these practices. He considers curatorship as working in service of and in coalition with others.

Isabel Pagliai is a French filmmaker and artist based in Paris. She graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Her cinematic practice combines fictional approaches with documentary filmmaking, exploring childhood, language, intimacy, and the shifting boundaries between reality and imagination. Her films have been presented at major international festivals, including New Directors/New Films, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Viennale, which devoted a 'monography' to her films in 2020. Her work has also been shown at renowned cultural institutions such as Villa Medici, Palais de Tokyo, and Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Her film Isabella Morra (2015) received several awards, including Best International Short/Medium Film at the RIDM. Tender (2020) won the Short Film Grand Prize at IndieLisboa and the Jury Prize for Best International Film at DocumentaMadrid. In 2025, Pagliai directed Fantasy, her first feature film, which received the First Film Award at FIDMarseille and the Best Director Award at Doclisboa. It was also selected for IDFA, CPH:DOX, Jeonju IFF and presented internationally at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jonathan Perel is a filmmaker and artist based in Buenos Aires. He studied Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires. His feature films include Camouflage (2022), Corporate Accountability (2020), Toponymy (2015), 17 Monuments (2012), and El predio (2010). His medium and short films include 5-T-2 Ushuaia (2016), Tabula rasa (2013), Las aguas del olvido (2013), Los murales (2011) and 5 (cinco) (2008). His work has screened at Berlinale, Viennale, IDFA, IFFR, Art of the Real, FIDMarseille, Cinéma du Réel, Sheffield DocFest, Ji.hlava, Indielisboa, Ficunam, Yamagata IDFF, Bafici, DokuFest, Documenta Madrid, Havana FF, Porto/Post/Doc, Underdox and Rencontres Internationales. He has won the Special Jury Prize at Bafici 2022, Best Director at Bafici 2021, the Special Jury Prize at Documenta Madrid 2020, the Critics' Award at FIDMarseille 2015, and has received a Fondo Nacional de las Artes grant (2018) as well as two Fondo Metropolitano de las Artes grants (2008, 2010). He is in the proces of shooting his new film Δ (Delta), canoeing alone with his camera.