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Debuts - Jury

Debuts - Jury
Asaph Polonsky

Asaph Polonsky's debut feature, One Week and a Day, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week, where it won the Gan Foundation Award. It went on to win Best Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival and Best Supporting Actor for Tomer Kapon at the Ophir Awards. His thesis film, Samnang, premiered at the New York Film Festival and was nominated for a Student Academy Award. He is currently directing the series Traitor, created by Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen. (Israel)

Gaia Furrer

Gaia Furrer has been working at Venice Days (Venice Film Festival’s sidebar) as a programmer and Head of Programming since the very first edition. In 2020, she was appointed as the new Artistic Director of Venice Days. Born in 1975, she graduated in Cinema History at La Sapienza University in Rome. Furrer worked as a programmer and consultant for various film festivals, produced several films, and collaborated with Film Italia on national and international projects. Since 2003, she has worked as Head of Programming at the Noir Film Festival. (Italy)

Phillippe Lacote

Philippe Lacôte’s work as a filmmaker has taken on several forms, before focusing in 2002 on the recent history of his country with Chronicles of War in the Ivory Coast, a film verging between documentary and diary. It was followed by the feature film Run, the story of a wandering madman, selected for Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. His second feature Night of the Kings, which premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, is a dive into the largest prison in West Africa, during a night of red moon. (Ivory Coast)