Jury of Competition Programme – Documentary Film

In the Competition Programme-Documentary Film international jury of three-namely Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijan), Salome Jashi (Georgia), Margje de Koning (Netherlands). The jury will select the recipients of the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film (4000 €) sponsored by Government of Switzerland, Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film (2,000 €), Human Rights Award (3000 €) sponsored by Kingdom of the Netherlands, Special Jury Prize (2500 €).

HILAL BAYDAROV Director, Azerbaijan Hilal Baydarov was born in Baku in 1987. After obtaining a master’s degree in computer sciences, he studied filmmaking in Sarajevo at the Sarajevo Film Academy’s film.factory, founded by Béla Tarr. Baydarov’s debut feature film HILLS WITHOUT NAMES had its premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2018. The same year, he won the Docu Talent Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival for BIRTHDAY, his second documentary film. His next three documentary films, WHEN THE PERSIMMONS GREW, MOTHER AND SON, and NAILS IN MY BRAIN, premiered at and won several awards from acclaimed festivals such as Visions du Réel, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Baydarov’s second narrative feature, IN BETWEEN DYING, premiered in the main competition of the Venice International Film Festival in 2020. His third feature, CRANE LANTER, premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Artistic Contribution. SERMON TO THE FISH, his most recent narrative feature, premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2022.

SALOME JASHI Director, Georgia Salomé Jashi was born in Tbilisi in 1981. A documentary filmmaker and producer, she holds MAs in documentary filmmaking from Royal Holloway, University of London, and in journalism from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. Her TAMING THE GARDEN (2021) was selected for the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition and the Berlinale Forum, and was nominated for a European Film Award. THE DAZZLING LIGHT OF SUNSET (2016) was awarded prizes at Visions du Réel’s Regard Neuf Competition and several other festivals. Her earlier work BAKHMARO (2011) was nominated for an Asia Pacific Screen Award. Jashi was a fellow of the Nipkow Scholarship in 2017 and the DAAD Artistsin-Berlin Programme in 2020. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

MARGJE DE KONING Artistic Director of Movies that Matter, The Netherlands After completing her studies, Margje de Koning made several documentaries for numerous broadcasting companies over the course of twelve years. In 2004, de Koning became a part-time teacher in the Culture & Media Studies section of the Department of Film and Television at the University of Amsterdam. In 2004, she became Commissioning Editor for a slot of 52-minute documentaries, for which she acted as a creative producer. Since 2005, de Koning has been responsible for the television department of IKON, where, in 2012, she became Head of TV, Radio and New Media programming. Since 2016, IKON has been incorporated within EO, with de Koning as Commissioning Editor of Documentaries for EO, JDocs, and IKONdocs. Since 2019, she has been the artistic director of Movies that Matter.