Jury for the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Ana Bravo-Pérez is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in Pasto, in the Andean-Amazonian territories of Abya Yala. Her work draws on migration, memory and violence. She uses her own migratory and diasporic experiences as a starting point for artistic projects investigating suppressed narratives and collective histories. These experiences have been crucial in shaping a practice in which personal, decolonial and geopolitical questions converge. Bravo-Pérez works with the materiality of film to explore how colonial forms of power and exploitation continue to shape the present. Her work has recently been exhibited or screened at among others: Tate Modern; Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos; Havana Biennial; Thai Film Archive; EYE Filmmuseum and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; and Cinemateca de Bogotá. Her films have also been screened at festivals including IDFA, Hot Docs, Ji.hlava, Oberhausen and the Havana Film Festival. Bravo-Pérez studied at the International Film School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, and the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds an MA in Artistic Research In and Through Cinema from the Netherlands Film Academy. She has been an active member of Filmwerkplaats, an artist-run film lab in the Netherlands, since 2017.

Diana Toucedo, filmmaker and editor, works at the crossroads between cinema and artistic research. Her work has been selected for film festivals including the Berlinale, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Visions du Reél, Nara International Film Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival, FID:BA, Pesaro Film Festival, and Doclisboa. Toucedo has edited more than 35 feature films to date, premiering and winning awards at IDFA, IFFR, Cannes Semaine de la Critique, Moscow International Film Festival, and more. Her first feature-length film Trinta lumes (Thirty Souls) premiered in the Panorama section at Berlinale 2018, was internationally acclaimed and won numerous awards. Camille & Ulysse, a documentary featuring philosophers Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret and produced by the CCCB/Centre Pompidou, premiered at IDFA DocLab 2021. Her latest short film Tatuado nos ollos levamos o pouso (Tattooed on Our Eyes We Carry the Aftertaste) premiered at Visións du Réel 2022 and has had an extensive festival run. She is preparing two new feature-length films.

Yaser Kassab is an award-winning Syrian filmmaker and producer based in Stockholm. He has created an acclaimed documentary trilogy consisting of On the Edge of Life (2017), I Have Seen Nothing I Have Seen All (2019) and Chasing the Dazzling Light (2023), offering a poetic perspective on the Syrian tragedy. The films have screened at major festivals including Art Venice Biennale, IDFA, Cinema du Réel, and Vision du Réel, earning awards including an IDFA Award for Best First Feature and Cinema du Réel’s Joris Ivens/CNCP Prize. Holding an MA in Film from Gothenburg University, his work focuses on representation and personal narratives.