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Cannes 2024 / Critics’ Week


24 articles available in total starting from 11/12/2023. Last article published on 16/09/2024.

Review: Julie Keeps Quiet

Review: Julie Keeps Quiet

CANNES 2024: Young Belgian filmmaker Leonardo van Dijl’s first feature film paints an intimate and brilliantly executed portrait of a young female athlete faced with a painful decision  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

Interview: Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

“The challenge for me was to make the silence loud”

CANNES 2024: The director unpicks his first feature, an intimate portrait of a young tennis player who has to contend with her coach’s misfortunes as well as her own secrets  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

Interview: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

“I have lived through the experience of exile”

CANNES 2024: In his new film, the French-Moroccan director salutes the dreamers and those who never truly feel at home  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir • Directors of The Brink of Dreams

Interview: Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir • Directors of The Brink of Dreams

“These girls challenge traditions”

CANNES 2024: The Egyptian filmmakers follow an all-female street-theatre troupe that is, and always was, uncompromising  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Brink of Dreams

Review: The Brink of Dreams

CANNES 2024: Egypt’s Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir follow a group of young women as they challenge longstanding norms by starting an all-female street-theatre troupe  

17/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: Locust

Review: Locust

CANNES 2024: A mute young man gets caught up with some local tough guys in the neo-noir debut from Taiwanese-US filmmaker KEFF  

16/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Jonathan Millet • Director of Ghost Trail

Interview: Jonathan Millet • Director of Ghost Trail

"My goal was to add tension using very simple things”

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker talks about his first fiction feature, a fascinating piece combining the codes of the spy movie and psychological confrontation  

15/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: Ghost Trail

Review: Ghost Trail

CANNES 2024: Jonathan Millet creates a spellbinding first feature about revenge, trauma and exile through the obsessive pursuit of a Syrian war criminal hiding in Europe  

15/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Cannes Critics' Week entry Baby

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Cannes Critics' Week entry Baby

The sophomore feature by Brazil's Marcelo Caetano follows a young man trying to rebuild his life after being released from a detention center  

13/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics' Week

Sylvie Pialat to chair the Critics’ Week jury at Cannes

Sylvie Pialat to chair the Critics’ Week jury at Cannes

For personal reasons, Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen has had to step back from being the jury chair for the parallel section's 63rd selection  

13/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

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