Selection Committees 2026

A member of the Visions du Réel selection committee since 2010, Emmanuel Chicon began his career as a journalist-reporter for the international section and film critic for the daily newspaper L’Humanité. Between 2003 and 2009, he produced and directed around twenty radio documentaries for France Culture, Radio France International and the programme “Par Ouïe Dire”, broadcast on French-speaking Belgian public radio (RTBF). He worked on sound writing for the Cinéma/Cinéma du réel department at HEAD-Geneva (2011-2017), and was also active in the Sans Canal Fixe film-makers’ collective based in Tours (2009-2021) and La Fabrique documentaire (Paris), before recently taking part as a reader of fiction and documentary projects submitted to Visions Sud Est Swiss fund and the Doha Film Institute.

Anne Delseth studied journalism in Fribourg, where she quickly became involved with the FIFF: first as a volunteer, then secretary, executive assistant, and finally programmer. After a degree in cultural management, she moved to Paris, where she was quickly scouted by Édouard Waintrop and invited to join the programming team of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, on which she spent ten years (2012-2022). Sharing her time between Paris and Lausanne, she was also head of the Masters in Cinema at the ECAL (Lausanne) and the HEAD (Geneva). She now works as programmer for the Marrakech International Film Festival, artistic director of the Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival, consultant for the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, programming delegate for the Zürich Film Festival, and manages the CityClub cinema in Pully. She is also an active member of numerous Swiss cultural and cinema organisations.

Sergio Fant is an Italian film programmer based in Germany. After graduating in film studies and working as a film archivist and researcher at the Cineteca di Bologna, he conceived and curated programmes for among others Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, the Pesaro Film Festival, the Rome Film Fest and the Mostra del Cinema in Venice, where he was in charge of the short film selection in 2010 and 2011. From 2012 to 2023 he was the Head of Program at the Trento Film Festival in Italy, and in the same year he joined the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, first as a short film programmer, then as a member of the selection committee from 2013 to 2018. In 2019, he is co-artistic director of the 18th DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival and becomes a member of the Berlinale selection committee, a position he holds until 2024. From 2022 he is the programmer of the ARCA International Film Festival on Visual Arts of Punta del Este, Uruguay, and in June 2024 he joins the selection committee of the BFI London Film Festival. He has served on several international festival juries and funding committees, and as an expert and tutor in various training and industry initiatives. He contributes a documentary column to the Italian weekly Internazionale and is the founder of the Italian documentary programming and distribution platform CineAgenzia.

Born in Chile, Francisca Lucero is based in France and works for film festivals since 2008. Since 2012, she works at FIDMarseille as coordinator and currently manager of FIDLab, the international coproduction platform. She was also program coordinator for the festival Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse until 2021. As a programmer, she is currently a member of Visions du Réel selection committee as well as Cinélatino’s documentary selection committee. She is also part of the programming team for the online documentary platform Tënk.

After studying socio-anthropology and documentary film, Aurélien Marsais worked at the Cinéma du Réel festival in Paris as a programming assistant and participated in the creation of the professional platform ParisDoc in 2015. He then coordinated the États généraux du film documentaire in Lussas from 2014 to 2017, and has since contributed to its programming. Based in Geneva and Brussels, he was co-head of the programming office at Visions du Réel from 2017 to 2020, and subsequently joined its selection committee. He is also a programmer and member of the board for the cooperative platform Tënk.fr, an alumnus of the Eurodoc training program, and a producer in Switzerland with the collective structure Cavale Films.

Mourad-Anis Moussa joined the Visions du Réel team during his studies in Literature and History of Art, which were followed by an M.A. in Film studies (Filmwissenschaft) at the Freie Universität – Berlin. Over the years, he has held various positions at the Festival, including publications manager, programme coordinator and Member of the selection committee. He is currently Co-Head of the programming office and Member of the selection committee.
At the same time, Mourad-Anis Moussa has worked for a number of festivals, including the GIFF (Geneva International Film Festival) and the FIFF (Festival International de Films de Fribourg) as press officer, and the FdS (Festival artistique des affects, des genres et des sexualités – Lausanne) as film programmer.
He has also worked in the music industry, notably as a programmer for the live club La Gravière (Geneva) and organising show cases for RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse).

Jasmin started to work at Visions du Réel while studying Film History and Aesthetics at the Lausanne University, where she obtained a Master in Arts. Since then, she has also been collaborating as programmer and Industry consultant with several festivals: Ambulante Mexico, FIFDH Geneva, Animafest Zagreb, NIFFF Neuchâtel, Solothurn Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and Fantoche, among others. She has also worked with the Cinemathèque of Tangier-Morocco, the Centre for the Image La Virreina Barcelona, the Croatian Audiovisual Center, the French Cinémathèque, the Centre Pompidou and the Forum des Images in Paris. Co-founder and board member of Pro Short, the Swiss association for short films. She was an appointed expert for the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and a board member of the Geneva Film Commission. In 2017, she also started to work on different documentaries as associate producer. Currently, she’s in charge of the Master in Film Studies joint program of the ECAL Lausanne/HEAD Geneva.

Violeta Bava has worked at Visions du Réel’s Industry division since 2018 and continues her collaboration with the festival as a new member of the Selection Committee. The Argentinian producer worked at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI) for 20 years, both as a programmer and as Co-Director of the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL). She is founder of Ruda Cine, which has produced films by Milagros Mumenthaler, Martín Rejtman, Dominga Sotomayor, and Eduardo Williams. Violeta Bava is the Latin American Consultant for the Venice International Film Festival and the Venice Market; currently she is also Head of Studies at the Torino FeatureLab, International Guest Curator at the New Zealand International Film Festival, Programmer of International Film Festival & Awards Macao and programme advisor at New York Film Festival.

Since 2015, Pierre-Alexis Chevit runs Cannes Docs, the tailored industry program & networking platform for all creative documentary filmmakers and professionals at Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes. Over the years, Pierre-Alexis has also freelanced for various doc festivals, markets and organizations, both on the programming and organizational sides, including Ji.hlava, DOK Leipzig, Visions du Réel, Eurodoc, Cinéma du réel, Festival dei Popoli, Fipadoc… and more. He still regularly collaborates with a number of them, focusing primarily on industry activities. Formerly, he has also worked in the VOD/DVD field, dealing mainly with docs and shorts. Pierre-Alexis often serves as moderator, tutor, consultant, jury or expert on various international events.

Leo Chiang is a filmmaker based in Taipei & San Francisco. His short documentary, ISLAND IN BETWEEN, received an Oscar nomination in 2024. His previous feature doc, OUR TIME MACHINE, was nominated for an Emmy & a Gotham Award, and won awards at Tribeca, DocEdge, & 10 other international film festivals. He directed two episodes of the landmark 5-part PBS series, ASIAN AMERICANS, which won a Peabody Award in 2021. His other films include the Emmy-nominated A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES. Leo co-founded A-Doc, the Asian American Documentary Network, and is a documentary branch member of the Academy.

Madeline Robert is a documentary producer, programmer and fund manager based in France. She has been working in various capacities at Visions du Réel since 2014, as a member of the Selection Committee and special advisor to the Artistic Director and was Head of Industry in 2021-2022. Previously & among others, she takes part in founding the Doc Corner, within the Cannes Festival Film Market, she has been an active producer with her company Les Films de la caravane (FR), she is involved in the France-based SVOD platform Tënk since its creation and is a member of the CNC (French cinema institute) commission for the audiovisual support fund.

Milton Guillén (b. 1991, Nicaragua) 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 works in performance, film, and installation have screened at the Venice Biennale, Locarno, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, True/False, and other festivals worldwide. They have received grants from Harvard’s Film Study Center, Tribeca Film Institute, ITVS, and Chicken & Egg, and fellowships from Points North, the Flaherty, and Firelight.

NISHTHA JAIN is a celebrated filmmaker from India, best known for her critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning films – Farming the Revolution, The Golden Thread and Gulabi Gang. Jain is a member of the Academy and the winner of the prestigious Chicken & Egg Award. Her work has been celebrated at various film festivals: ‘Filmmaker in Focus’ at Sydney Film Festival 2025; Filmmaker Retrospective: Doc-Cevennes 2025; Filmmaker Tribute at FIDADOC Morocco 2025; Portrait of a Filmmaker at Films Fra Sur, Oslo 2024. She was the Jury Chair at Flahertiana film festival 2025; and jury member at TIDF, Zurich, IDSFFK, Cinema Verité and IDFA as well as selection committees at IDFA Fund and IDFA Forum.

Katy Lena Ndiaye is a filmmaker and producer.
In 2013, she founded IndigoMood Films, a Senegal-based production company conceived as a space for reflection and exploration on cinematic practice, that supports mostly first and second features. For over a decade, IndigoMood Films has been collaborating with artists and filmmakers from diverse routes, with singular grammars, bringing together new narratives. Over the years, Katy Lena has built up a catalog of titles selected or awarded at prestigious international festivals.
As a filmmaker, Katy Lena’s work as well have been awarded and reached audiences around the world, recognized for the distinctiveness of her approach. Her films focus on contemporary Africa and its relationship to history and memory.
Alongside her career in cinema, Katy Lena worked for television, collaborating on over a hundred docs and TV interviews.