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356 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 08/10/2025.

Five feature films have been awarded the Critics’ Week stamp of approval

Five feature films have been awarded the Critics’ Week stamp of approval

Cannes’ parallel section has selected and will lend its support to films signed by Chloé Mazlo, Anna Cazenave Cambet, Aleem Khan, Naël Marandin and Just Philippot  

04/06/2020 | Cannes 2020 | Critics’ Week

Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week and ACID throw in the towel

Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week and ACID throw in the towel

The parallel sections cancel their 2020 Cannes editions. The Marché du Film should unfold online from 22 to 26 June  

15/04/2020 | Cannes 2020

The Cannes’ Critics’ Week programme ‘Next Step’ enters into its 6th year

The Cannes’ Critics’ Week programme ‘Next Step’ enters into its 6th year

Last week saw 9 young filmmakers take part in this programme organised by Cannes’ Critics’ Week and aimed at supporting young directors make the leap to feature film  

20/12/2019 | Industry | Market | Cannes 2020 - Critics' Week

Locarno’s Piazza Grande to host both auteur films and crowd-pleasers

Locarno’s Piazza Grande to host both auteur films and crowd-pleasers

The 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival will see a number of European films featuring in parallel sections of the event, but they will also make an appearance in the prestigious Piazza Grande  

17/07/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Piazza Grande/Filmmakers of the Present/Moving Ahead/Out of Competition/Critics’ Week

Hafsia Herzi  • Director of You Deserve a Lover

Interview: Hafsia Herzi • Director of You Deserve a Lover

“I shot my characters with a lot of love, and I think that it comes through in the film”

CANNES 2019: Actress Hafsia Herzi tells us about You Deserve a Lover, her very moving feature debut as director, in which she also stars  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

I Lost My Body triumphs in the Cannes Critics’ Week

I Lost My Body triumphs in the Cannes Critics’ Week

CANNES 2019: The animated film by France’s Jérémy Clapin has taken home the Grand Prize, while the Rising Star Award has gone to Icelandic actor Ingvar E Sigurðsson for his turn in A White, White Day  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Review: Abou Leila

Review: Abou Leila

CANNES 2019: The stylish debut feature by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène deals with the mental stress of trauma  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

Review: Our Mothers

Review: Our Mothers

CANNES 2019: Through the story of Ernesto, his family, and his friends, César Díaz paints the portrait of a collective resilience, that of the victims of the Guatemalan military dictatorship  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

Cesar Diaz • Director of Our Mothers

Interview: Cesar Diaz • Director of Our Mothers

"I didn’t want to give a history lesson, I wanted to give history a human form"

CANNES 2019: We met with Cesar Diaz, the Guatemalan director now settled in Belgium, whose first film, Our Mothers, is being presented this year during Cannes’ Critics’ Week  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

Jérémy Clapin • Director of I Lost My Body

Interview: Jérémy Clapin • Director of I Lost My Body

"In this film we have two genres, romance and action"

CANNES 2019: French director Jérémy Clapin talks about his animation film I Lost My Body, world-premiered in the Critics' Week  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics' Week

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