Juries

Creative producer, dramaturg and editor working across film and cultural programming, rooted in close continuous collaboration with authors. Her recent projects premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and San Sebastián. Formerly, a long-standing contributor to IDFA as program adviser and talks curator.

Lidija Zelovic is a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She began as an independent filmmaker in the aftermath of the civil war in her home country, Yugoslavia, before working for media companies (BBC, Channel 4). Her latest film, Home Game, explores the duality migrants experience in defining “home” while examining Europe’s growing political polarization.

Marta Donzelli, who graduated in Philosophy, founded Vivo film together with Gregorio Paonessa in 2004, producing more than 50 feature films presented at major international festivals. Among the company’s latest productions is Le Città di Pianura, which won 8 David di Donatello awards this year, including Best Producer.

Martina Droandi is the founder of ODD Slice Films (2025) and a documentary sales agent. She worked at Autlook after gaining experience in short film distribution and completing a seven-month stint at mk2. She is an alumna of SOAS, DOCNOMADS, Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, the Locarno Film Industry Academy, and the International Screen Institute.

La Casa del Mondo Adjebadia is a project launched in the spring of 2020 with the aim of countering the marginalization faced by numerous families living in the Bolognina district, mostly of foreign origin. It creates spaces for gathering, support, and socialization for children and young people, featuring a homework space, a solidarity legal clinic, and the Miriam Makeba library, which holds texts in over 10 languages.

As CSI, we work to promote health and transform services through a multidisciplinary approach to training, research, and action oriented toward equity. In our vision, health and illness are determined by the conditions in which people are born, live, and work; these are distributed unequally across the population as a result of socio-cultural, political, and economic dynamics.

Donne in Strada APS is a transfeminist association founded in Bologna in 2021. It operates with an intersectional and transcultural approach to prevent and combat gender-based violence and racism. Through legal and ethno-medical support desks, street-level outreach, and educational workshops on sex, the body, emotions, and relationships, the association supports women and people with a migration background of all ages, promoting rights, self-determination, and access to local services.

Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent direct action and mass civil disobedience to force governments to reverse the course leading us toward climate and ecological disaster. Together, we aim to build a fairer and more livable world, based on peace, democracy, altruism, and a deep respect for the ecosystem in which we live.

Theatre Student

Agronomist and film enthusiast