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Critics' Week


354 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

Interview: Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

“The most Chechen aspect of the film is the sense of resilience – it’s about facing hardship without losing your humanity”

CANNES 2025: The director discusses the long journey he embarked upon to make his documentary, exploring identity, family, resilience and Chechen culture  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

CANNES 2025: Momoko Seto’s film is a visually stunning but slow-paced animation about four dandelion seeds, which favours atmosphere over narrative  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Review: Imago

Review: Imago

CANNES 2025: Combining personal reflection and sociopolitical undercurrents, Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s slow-burning documentary captures his emotional return to his origins  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

A Useful Ghost triumphs in the Cannes Critics’ Week

A Useful Ghost triumphs in the Cannes Critics’ Week

CANNES 2025: The feature debut by Thailand’s Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s has won the Grand Prize; other gongs have gone to Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s Imago and Canada’s Théodore Pellerin in Nino  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Review: Sleepless City

Review: Sleepless City

CANNES 2025: Guillermo Galoe’s vibrant social-realist drama sees a young Roma teenager from Madrid’s exurban slums struggling to leave that world behind  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

Interview: Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

“In La Cañada, I felt a profound wound in people”

CANNES 2025: The Spanish director gives us the low-down on his film, shot in a slum on the outskirts of Madrid, in which a teenager stares out at a broken world  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

The Last Tears of the Deceased wins the Next Step Prize in Cannes

The Last Tears of the Deceased wins the Next Step Prize in Cannes

CANNES 2025: Ethiopian director Beza Hailu Lemma’s project has walked away with the trophy awarded by Critics’ Week  

20/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Pauline Loquès • Director of Nino

Interview: Pauline Loquès • Director of Nino

”I was interested in seeing how the banality of everyday life continues in an exceptional moment of a life"

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker talks about the genesis of her first feature film and explains her quest to strike the right balance between a dramatic subject and a subtly offbeat treatment  

18/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Review: Nino

Review: Nino

CANNES 2025: Following the footsteps of a young man wandering around Paris in the throes of a revelation, Pauline Loquès paints a moving portrait of the modern urban world  

18/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika

Interview: Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika

"In life, you can think you’re in a romantic comedy but then suddenly find yourself in a social drama, which you didn’t see coming"

CANNES 2025: The filmmaker chatted with us about her first fiction feature film, a comic drama inspiring laughs and tears about a woman in love and grieving  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

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