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 [+lee también:
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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 [+lee también:
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Charlotte Wells, the chair of the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film jury, rose to fame with her feature debut, Aftersun [+lee también:
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