These are the juries of HUMAN 2025
Festivalen er rett rundt hjørnet, og disse menneskene gjør seg klare til å vurdere våre konkurranseprogram.
Monday is kicks off! While we at HUMAN are eagerly waiting for the festival to finally begin, we can announce some very special guests: our juries.
Our festival has two competition programs, one for Norwegian documentaries and one for films with a strong human rights theme. Each program has three jury members who, during the festival week, will evaluate and ultimately select a winner from their program.
This year’s juries are an interdisciplinary group with broad expertise and great commitment. We are proud that they will evaluate our competition programs.
The Norwegian Competition Program
New Norwegian documentary films compete to win the HUMAN Prize and 50,000 kroner. Read more about the films here.
The jury that will select a winner for the Norwegian competition program consists of Erland Edenholm, Atle Hunnes Isaksen and Ingrid Liavaag.
Erland Edenholm is a film cutter and editor whose career in film and television spans nearly four decades. He works as a freelance editor, with the main focus on documentary films. Notable works edited by Edenholm the last years include “Villagers and Vagabonds” (2020), which won multiple awards including “Best Norwegian Documentary” at BIFF 2020, and “Best edited documentary” (Gullruten 2022), “The Art of Sin” (2020), which received accolades at Nordic Docs. His editing work on “Life is Beautiful” (2023) helped the film win the IDFA Award for Best Directing. “Life is Beautiful” has been screened at festivals around the world and is now distributed in cinemas across the US. (2024). Edenholm is an active member of the Norwegian Film Association (NFF) and the Norwegian Association of Film Editors (N:F:K).
Atle Hunnes Isaksen is the communication manager for The Norwegian Federation of Film Societies and film scholar. He has been active in the film club movement since 1998. For the past 15 years, he has been employed by the Norwegian Film Club Association’s secretariat, which distributes documentary and feature films to film clubs. He has contributed texts to Z film magazine, and has jury experience from both ECFA and IFFS juries (The International Federation of Film Societies). Atle believes that film clubs are the best meeting place to watch films together, and works to ensure that more children, young people and adults enjoy going to a film club.
Ingrid Liavaag is a Norwegian artist and performing artist who works with film, theater and video installations. She is educated at the École Jacques Lecoq (Paris) and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Khio). Her work often explores feminism and people’s relationships to each other and their surroundings, and has been shown both nationally and internationally. In 2022, Liavaag won the Film Critics Award at the Grimstad Short Film Festival. Her work is part of the Kunstsilo collection in Kristiansand, and her latest film “Fasade” was accepted at the Autumn Exhibition in 2024. Liavaag is a co-founder of the film collective Peggy Høy.
The Human Rights Human Wrongs award
Ten documentary films from around the world, with strong human rights themes, compete for this prize and 30,000 kroner provided by Amnesty International Norway and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. Read more about the films here.
The jury consists of Silje Poulsen Wiki, Mariam Kirollos and Mari Monrad Vistven.
Mariam Kirollos is a MENA (The Middle East and North Africa) Human Rights Researcher based in Oslo. She holds an MA degree in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London.
Silje Poulsen Viki is a distributor and producer at Indie Film, with a master’s degree in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from Trinity College in Dublin. She has previously worked and programmed for several film festivals, as program director for HUMAN international documentary film festival in the period 2014-2021 and in various roles at Kortfilmfestivalen over seven years. She has also worked with Film Fra Sør, Sør Fond and Le Monde diplomatique, and has been a board member of Grimstad kino og kulturhus.
Mari Monrad Vistven has worked as a filmmaker for over 20 years. She recently won the ECFA award for best children’s documentary in Europe, with the film “Todd & Super-Stella”, which she directed. Vistven currently works as a producer and general manager for Medieoperatørene, where she has produced, among other things, “Ikke slipp meg” (NRK 2024), “Bortebane” (cinema 2020), “Kampen” (NRK 2018), “Mellom oss” and the series “Stemmene i hodet” (NRK 2017). She graduated from the directing department at Lillehammer University College, and throughout her career has worked as both a director and editor, for NRK, TV2, BBC, Channel Four, MTV, among others. Vistven has also worked as a still photographer for English and Norwegian magazines.
