Marko Grba Singh is a filmmaker and festival programmer from Belgrade. His films have screened at Cannes ACID, Visions du Réel, FIDMarseille and Viennale, among others. He is the Artistic Director of BELDOCS and programmer of Zagreb HRFF and the Eastern Neighbours film festival. He is a member of European Film Academy and an is alumni of Berlinale Talents. His debut feature, Rampart, premiered at Locarno in 2021.

Claire Lasolle has been a member of the selection committee for the FIDMarseille festival since 2020 and a member of the committee for FIDLAB, an international co-production platform, since 2025. She has been responsible for the focus on Laure Prouvost during the 2023 edition. She is co-founder of Videodrome 2 (Marseille), an alternative cinema with a daily program (heritage cinema, experimental films, documentaries, film series, talks, and seminars...), for which she has been responsible for artistic coordination and development from 2014 to 2025. Claire Lasolle took part to international juries (RIDM, Connecting Cottbus, Festival du cinéma différent et expérimental de Paris...) and is involved in programming, criticism, and education as guest lecturer at the University of Aix Marseille. Together with Ben Russell, Jeff Silva, and Laurent van Lancker, she programs the monthly event Double Vision with the support of the A*Midex Chair of Excellence.

Isabelle Stachtchenko is a cinematographer with several feature-length fiction and documentary films under her belt. Her work was particularly noted for Cette maison by Miryam Charles and Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, which have earned praise from numerous critics and won many festival awards. She focuses primarily on projects that play with form and masters the art of filmmaking.

As concept artist, André-Line Beauparlant has worked on over thirty art house films.

In 2000, she directed her first documentary film, Trois princesses pour Roland (Hot-Docs Best Direction Award 2002), an intergenerational saga featuring an all-female cast. Still fascinated by family, with all its joys and flaws, she directed Le petit Jésus (2005), winner of the Hot-Docs Best Direction Award; Panache (2007), special mention at the FICFA; then Pinocchio (2015), special mention at RIDM. Her most recent feature-length documentaries, Petit Tom, a film shot over 15 years, and Mon Amour c'est pour le restant de mes jours, an intimate portrait of filmmaker Robert Morin, will be released in winter 2026.

Recipient of the Prix Excellence at the Gala Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des nouveaux médias (2011) and the Prix Création from the Observatoire du cinéma au Québec (2016). In 2019, the Cinémathèque québécoise featured a retrospective of her documentaries. She lives and works between Montreal and Montcerf, Quebec.

Film curator, cultural manager, and artist-researcher. Since 2018, David Montenegro has worked at the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival (FICCI), where he is currently Head of Programming. He has also curated and collaborated with festivals and markets including BAM – Bogotá Audiovisual Market, IndieBo – Bogotá Independent Film Festival, The Classics, Latinamerika i Fokus, and IFEMA – International Female Film Festival Malmö.

He holds a Master’s degree in Visual Culture from Lund University (Sweden), where his thesis on the materiality of conflict-related objects in Colombia, framed through a new materialist perspective, received the Britt and Karl Hugo Axelsson Memorial Foundation Award for Outstanding Master’s Theses in Art History & Visual Studies.

Paola Casella is an Arts and Entertainment journalist for the Rizzoli Corriere della Sera Group as well as a film critic for MYmovies.it. She sits on the editorial board of Cinecritica and on the selection committee of the Italian Association of Film Critics. She is Vice President and Italian National Delegate of FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics) as well as Artistic Director of the Italian cultural association Rete degli Spettatori and of the Movie to Music Award. 

She is a voter at the Golden Globes, the David di Donatello Awards and the Nastri d’Argento. She is a member of the scientific committee for the Fiesole Cinema Award and on the selection committee of the Solinas Screenplay Award. She was a member of the selection committee of the European Discovery Awards and of the Venice Film Festival’s Critics Week. She has participated in 13 FIPRESCI juries, the most recently as President, including the Cannes, Venice and Torino film festivals.

Paola Casella teaches Narratives in the International Master Program in Cultural and Digital Diplomacy and Film Industry of the International Economics program at Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She is a professor and a Trainer for educational programs in film literacy for the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and has taught film criticism at Naples’ Suor Orsola Benincasa University. She has published several books on cinema, including Hollywood Italian (Baldini & Castoldi, 1989), winner of the Donna Città di Roma Award, and Cinema: femminile, plurale (Le Mani, 2020), winner of the Domenico Meccoli Award. She contributes regularly to cinema publications such as Bianco e Nero and Cineforum, as well as to the companion books for the Pesaro Film Festival.

Inge Coolsaet is co-founder and co-editor of the Belgian film magazine Fantômas. She currently works at ARGOS Centre for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels, valorising its collections through film programs and editorial projects. She has previously worked at the Royal Film Archive of Belgium and taught classes on videographic film criticism.

Mathieu Li-Goyette is a film critic, programmer, comic book researcher, and holds a PhD in comparative literature from the l'Université de Montréal. Editor-in-chief of Panorama-cinéma magazine, he has edited collective works on cinema and initiated numerous film events and retrospectives in Montreal, Paris, and was a guest programmer at Berlin Critics' Week in 2018. He recently became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and co-founded Montreal Critics' Week, the first edition of which took place in January 2025.

Milton Guillén is a visual artist, filmmaker, and senior programmer for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute. Their work explores collaborative non-fictions and political dreamscapes. Milton's films and installations have been screened at the Venice Biennale, Museo Reina Sofía, Locarno, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, True/False, and Camden. Milton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont and oscillates between Berlin and Burlington.

Born in Beirut, Rawane Nassif is a Lebanese-Canadian eclectic filmmaker and anthropologist. She wrote on the politics of memory in Beirut, produced documentaries in Lebanon, worked with immigrants and indigenous people in Canada, researched nomadic traditions in Kyrgyzstan, taught anthropology in Tajikistan, created children’s books in Honduras, and conducted art film research with the Doha Film Institute in Qatar. Her current interests are more of a spiritual nature, she views her films as therapy, art as a medium, and transforms often. Her experimental films screened in festivals and galleries: “Turtles are Always Home” premiered at Berlinale, “Ode to Loneliness” and “Msaytbeh, the elevated place” premiered at Rotterdam.

Benjamin R. Taylor is an independent artist with work exhibited in international festivals and cinemas. He is also an independent film curator, programmer and facilitator. He is the founder and facilitator of VISIONS, an independent curatorial series that foregrounds artists working in experimental and documentary cinema. He is a co-founder and caretaker of la lumière collective, a microcinema and artists’ studio in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

A documentary filmmaker and popular education facilitator, mathilde capone holds a master's degree in social anthropology. A feminist, anti-colonial, lesbian and queer activist, they are involved in collective initiatives that provoke thought. Their independently produced feature film La fabrique du consentement : regards lesbo-queer was screened at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and Image+Nation. ÉVICTION, their second feature documentary, which chronicles the expulsion of a queer housing collective, premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) and won the Audience Award. La maison des rebelles, their upcoming film, follows the opening of the first lesbian retirement home in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke.

Jocelyne Clarke has been working in the documentary film industry for 30 years, in all aspects of documentary creation. She taught cinema at Concordia University, worked as an analyst for SODEC and submitted articles on documentary cinema to various magazines. A founding programmer of the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, she now coordinates the Magnus Isacsson jury.

Charles Duquet is a non-fiction filmmaker, cinematographer and teacher. He resides in Tio'tia:ke / Montreal as well as in the Estrie region / unceded Abenaki territories. His work advocates for non-fiction writing and explores new ways to engage with our societal and intimate preoccupations. 

Having completed a master's degree in Cinematic Arts at Concordia University, his work was notably nominated for the IRIS for best documentary at the Gala Québec Cinéma and awarded at the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM). Charles continues to explore the narrative possibilities of short and medium formats. He is currently directing his first feature film.

Originally from Chile, Patricio Henríquez settled in Montreal in 1974 following the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government. His documentaries have won over a hundred awards in Quebec and elsewhere.

Between 2007 and 2022, Patricio was an instructor in the documentary program at the National Institute of Sound and Image (L'inis).

Between 2005 and 2011, he was a visiting professor at the Documentary Chair of the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV), Cuba.

Marie-France Laval has over 14 years' experience in documentary filmmaking in Quebec and abroad. She focuses on the development of high-impact, on-the-ground projects on subjects related to human issues. The aim is to provoke thought and give a voice to people who are often less heard. Among her achievements are Marchés sur Terre, an international documentary series, and JENNY, an award-winning children's fiction series about leukemia, broadcast in many countries. More recently, she produced, directed and scripted Pères en lumière, a series of short films highlighting positive fatherhood. She is currently working on KAPsur, a documentary series for young people that she is co-producing with Kavalo Productions, co-writing and directing 16 of the 20 episodes.

Nicolas Uribe is a Montreal-based film distribution professional with an extensive background in audience development and screen-sector roles. Since 2022, he has worked as Distribution Coordinator at Cinema Politica, where he oversees distribution strategies and releases for the organization's catalogue of award-winning documentaries. His experience spans programming, marketing, sponsorship, and operations with organizations such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and Inside Out Film Festival. With a BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto and currently in pursuit of an MA in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Nicolas brings a deep understanding of contemporary screen culture and global cinema. He has served on selection and programming committees for festivals including Camden International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and is passionate about the nexus of business, film culture, and emerging media trends.

The RIDM student jury was inaugurated in 2014. The jury of five students from cegeps in the Greater Montreal area will present an award to a film from the official competition. 

This initiative is part of the RIDM’s Youth Program, which includes a variety of outreach and awareness activities.

The women inmates’ jury is composed of inmates of the Joliette Institution, the only federal women’s penitentiary in Quebec. They will name their favourite documentary from among five to seven films in this year’s festival.

Given to the audience's favorite documentary from all the films in the official selection.