The jury members of the fourth AJB DOC Film Festival

Jamel Dallali, Una Gunjak and Veton Nurkollari are members of the international jury for the fourth AJB DOC Film Festival, which will take place from 10th to 14th September in Sarajevo and online.

 Gunjak, Dallali i Nurkollari will judge and award the best film in the competition selection of the AJB DOC Film Festival with AJB DOC Main Award.

Jamal Dallali is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who manages the Production Department at Al Jazeera Documentary Channel. He holds a master’s degree in Documentary Filmmaking from Brunel University (UK), and has directed several documentaries, including: Love & Death, The Assassination of Farhat Hached, The Diaspora of the Diaspora: Palestinians in Iraq, The End of a Throne: Mohammed Moncef Bay, Women in the Grip of the Colonel, State Crimes: Salah Ben Youssef, Sparks from the Suburbs.

In 2016, he presided over the Selection Jury at the LatinArab Forum in Argentina, and was a member of the jury for FEDEO in Tangiers, Morocco, in 2017.

Una Gunjak is a Sarajevo born writer, director and editor. She has pursued her studies first in Italy, and then in the UK, where she graduated at the National Film and TV School obtaining her MA in Film Editing. Before focusing on writing and directing, Una has extensively worked as editor on documentaries and features.

Her short film The Chicken made in 2014 premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week, won the European Film Award for Best Short Film 2014 and was screened in the International Competition of the Sundance Film Festival. It went on to screen at 270 other festivals around the globe, winning along more than 70 awards. Her 2017 short film Salamat from Germany, made within the initiative Lebanon Factory, also premiered in Cannes, in the Directors' Fortnight selection. Una is currently in the preproduction of her first feature film project Excursion, winner of the Hubert Bals Script Development Fund, Sorfond and supported by Sarajevo Film Fund, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre) and Film Centre Serbia.

Veton Nurkollari is the Artistic Director of DokuFest, Kosovo's largest cultural event and one of the most important documentary and short film festivals in South East Europe, which he co-founded in 2002 with a group of friends.

He is also one of the curators of DokuPhoto, an annual showcase of documentary photography that runs alongside film festival.

Veton is a member of the European Film Academy’s documentary selection committee as well as of the Cinema Eye Honors selection committee, a New York City based organization that recognizes and honors exemplary craft in nonfiction filmmaking and is also one of the founding board members of the Albanian Cinema Project, an initiative to bring awareness, attention, and assistance to the plight of the Albanian National Film Archive.

Veton regularly curates film programs and juries at various film festivals and is currently involved in coaching and mentorship of young filmmakers from Kosovo within “Future is Here” and “Heritage Space” projects.  

Veton Nurkollari is a member of the European Film Academy and European Cultural Parliament.

All films in the Competition Programme also enter the competition for the “Al Jazeera Balkans Program Award”, which is to be presented by the Al Jazeera Programme jury.

All films screened during the Festival will also compete for the Audience Award.

More information about the festival program is available on the official website ajbdoc.ba.