Philippe Lacôte is an Ivorian film director.

[1] He is most noted for his 2014 film Run, which was a Lumières Award nominee for Best French-Language Film at the 20th Lumières Awards,[2] and his 2020 film Night of the Kings (La Nuit des rois), which won the Amplify Voices Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.

[3] Both films were also selected as Côte d'Ivoire's submissions to the Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film at the 88th Academy Awards in 2016[4] and at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021,[5] respectively.<<>> In 2024, Lacote directed the film "Killer Heat," based on Jo Nesbø's "Jealousy Man and Other Stories," and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Richard Madden.

[6] In 2021, he was selected as a jury member for the International competition section of the 74th Locarno Film Festival, held from August 4 to 14.

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