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Critics' Week


355 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

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

The Woodcutter Story wins the Next Step Award at Cannes

The Woodcutter Story wins the Next Step Award at Cannes

CANNES 2019: The project by Finland’s Mikko Myllylahti has taken home the first-ever Next Step Award handed out by the Critics’ Week  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week/Awards

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