Debut Film Competition Jury

Graduated from the Rennes-Britain 1 University in Cultural Projects and Programs Development and Management in 1998, Mainguet has started his career as a freelance cinema critic. Then he has promoted independent and arthouse films as cinema programmer and distributor programmer from 2000 to 2007. Then he started working for the 3 Continents Film Festival (Nantes) in 2007 first as audiences coordinator then since 2009 he took over its industry program, the international training workshop Produire au Sud, and run 8 international workshops abroad besides the main workshop organized in Nantes. In 2022 he is appointed as audiovisual attaché at the French Embassy of Israel.

Guillaume Mainguet is also a scriptwriter and director. Since 2010, he has shot several short films selected worldwide, starting with The Shadow of the trees doesn’t exist anymore (2010) and Walker (2013). In 2014, he took part of the Nordic Factory program and directed The Girl and the Dogs (2014), which premiered at Cannes 2014 Director's Fortnight. Then in 2016 and 2019 he shot two more shorts in a raw The Middle of a Lake and Vincent before Noon gathering numerous international awards. He is currently preparing a new short The Fold co-directed with Israeli director Yona Rozenkier and working on his first feature script Green Woods.
 

Ilan Duran Cohen is a French filmmaker and novelist. Born in Rehovot, he grew up in Paris. He studied film at New York University. He is known for his movies The confusion of gender, Grandsons for which he won the Orizzonti prize at Mostra of Venice, The joy of singing and more recently The Jewish cardinal. 
He wrote six novels published in France by famed publisher Actes Sud.

Israela Shaer Meoded, director, lecturer, and researcher, has directed more than eight short award-winning films and features (Queen Khantarisha, 2009; Mori: Shabazi’s Riddle, 2018; Woman , 2019, Shimon, 2019). Awarded Steve Tisch Foundation Prize for 2021. Shaer Meoded is currently writing her dissertation in the Tel Aviv University Department of Culture Studies on Mizrahi women political filmmakers in the 1970s, and a lecturer on cinema at the Screen-Based Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and at the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television.