Here are the juries for the HUMAN competition programmes

International Competition

Birgitte Sigmundstad – Filmmaker
Birgitte Sigmundstad lives is educated at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England. The theme in Sigmundstads films are tied to art, art history or historical events. Another recurring subject matter in Sigmundstads films is how art is used ideologically as pictured in Art and Non-Art (2020) and in Hammersborg Protecting the Bygone Future (2017).

Kari Anne Moe – Filmmaker and producer
Kari Anne Moe (born 1976) is a director and producer with over 20 years of experience in documentary film, and runs the production company Fuglene together with Gudmundur Gunnarsson.

George Kurian – Filmmaker and photographer
George Kurian is a documentary filmmaker and journalist who has worked in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Turkey, India, Nepal and many other countries. His project Vanishing Homelands was part of the Venice Biennale in 2019 and his 2016 film The Crossing toured the world and won several awards. He has worked on documentaries in a variety of fields and has been broadcast on BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, Discovery, Animal Planet, ZDF, Arte, TV2 (Norway), DR and Doordarshan (India).

Here are the films competing for the award for Best International Documentary at HUMAN 2026.

Norwegian Competition

Benjamin Mosli – Cinematographer
Cinematographer who has worked in the film industry for eighteen years, on everything from small short films to large series and feature films. Board member of the interest organisations Foreningen norske filmfotografer, IMAGO – International Federation of Cinematographers and the Short Film Festival in Grimstad. Former board member of the Film Association, and has served on the jury for both the Amanda Award, Gullruten and the Oscar Committee. Took a master’s degree from the Norwegian Film School in the spring of 2025, and in the fall/winter has mainly worked with director Izer Aliu on his next feature film project, an action comedy set in Albania.

Chloé Faulkner – Head of Films at The Norwegian Film Club Association
Chloé Faulkner (b. 1987) is a French film worker and critic, with a master’s degree in political science from Paris and London, and further education in film history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She currently works as Head of Films at the Norwegian Film Club Association and is a regular writer for Z film magazine. In addition to holding several positions in the field of film promotion, she has previously been a jury member for Film fra Sør, Oslo Pix, Kortfilmfestivalen and Tromsø International Film Festival, among others.

Emily Louisa Millan Eide – Filmmaker
Emily Louisa Millan Eide is a filmmaker and screenwriter, and studied television directing at Lillehammer University College, and is known for, among other things, The Renaissance Prince (2023). During this year’s HUMAN festival, she organizes the documentary workshop Øyeblikk for unge together with Barbora Hollan.

Here are the films competing for the award for Best Norwegian Documentary at HUMAN 2026.

Human Rights Human Wrongs

Dag Andreas Fedøy – The Norwegian Helsinki Committee
Dag Andreas Fedøy is a media scholar (UiO) and Head of Communications at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. He has previously worked in the aid industry and has a background in Norwegian politics.

Ingrid Fadnes – Filmmaker and journalist
Ingrid Fadnes is a journalist for the newspaper Klassekampen, she makes documentary films and has lived and worked in Latin America for ten years.

Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas – Producer
Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer and founder of Ten Thousand Images AS (TTI). With over 25 years of experience, she has produced and co-produced more than eighteen feature-length documentaries. Her work includes No Word for Worry, the IDFA-winning Nowhere to Hide, the Oscar-shortlisted Hidden Letters, and The Dating Game, which premiered at Sundance. As a minority co-producer, her credits include Life of Ivanna and the Berlinale-winning Myanmar Diaries. She is a member of the Academy’s Documentary Branch.

Here are the films competing for the Human Rights Human Wrongs Award 2026.