Critic’s Week competition Jury
of the Dublin
International Film
Festival, Ireland
Grainne Humphreys is Festival Director of the Dublin International Film Festival. She started her career working with young audiences with the Junior Dublin Film Festival in 1994 and she has worked in film programming for over twenty years.
She was director of both the Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival and the Dublin French Film Festival from 2002- 2007.
She contributes to a number of shows on RTE and other media outlets and leads a course called Cinema Creatives which is a part of the Creative Futures Academy in UCD and also lectures on film exhibition in Griffith College.
Khaled El Hagar is an Egyptian writer and director who studied film directing and screenwriting at the National Film School in England, earning a master’s degree in 1994. He has directed nine feature films and co-written four, including Little Dreams, Room to Rent, Sins of the Flesh, and Immobilia Crime Story. His latest film, the Saudi production Shihana, was released in 2019 by Saudi television SBC.
El Hagar’s films have gained local and international acclaim. Room to Rent (2000), a UK-French production, was distributed in 28 countries and won multiple awards, including the Audience Award at the Torino Film Festival. His work has been shown at over 250 festivals, earning him 38 awards, including the Golden Pyramid at the Cairo International Film Festival and Best Film at the Oran Film Festival. He was the first Arab director to win Best Film at the Porto Film Festival in Portugal.
Nisrin Erradi was born in Rabat in August 1989. She joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art and Cultural Animation of Rabat (ISADAC) before leaving and starting to appear in some short films. Even before graduating from this Higher Institute of Dramatic Art, she obtained roles in a few films and appeared on the theater scene in Morocco. She appeared in short films, TV films, feature films (notably Les Ailes de l’amour directed by Abdelhai Larakil, or Malak by Abdeslam Kelai), as well as television series 2,3.
In the late 2010s, she landed one of the leading roles in the film Al Jahiliya by Hicham Lasri, released in 2018, then in Adam, directed by Maryam Touzani and released in 2019, which competed for Un Certain Regard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Following this film, she was nominated among the “Revelations” for the César for Most Promising Actress.