French writer-director Julia Ducournau and Scottish helmer Charlotte Wells will, respectively, chair the international jury for the Orizzonti section and the jury for the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film at the Venice Film Festival (27 August-6 September).

Ducournau rose to prominence with her short film Junior, which won an award in the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2011. Her feature debut, Raw [+lire aussi :
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Other names announced for the Orizzonti jury are Italian director and video artist Yuri Ancarani, who was included by the New York Times among the emerging directors to watch in 2017 and who helmed the 2021 feature Atlantide [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which was presented at Venice, in the Orizzonti section; Argentinian film critic Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, who has served on the juries of many festivals, such as Turin, Beijing, Shanghai, Chicago, San Sebastián and Tallinn Black Nights; Australian director Shannon Murphy, who was in competition at Venice with her feature debut, Babyteeth, in 2021 and was BAFTA-nominated for Best Director; and US artist and director RaMell Ross, whose documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening scooped the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at Sundance and the Peabody Award, in addition to being in the running for the Oscars and the Emmys.

Charlotte Wells, the chair of the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film jury, rose to fame with her feature debut, Aftersun [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which was premiered in the Cannes Critics’ Week. Paul Mescal was Oscar-nominated for his performance in the flick. Wells will be backed up by French-Tunisian director-producer Erige Sehiri, who in 2022 wrote, directed and produced her feature debut, Under the Fig Trees [+lire aussi :
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