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Critics' Week


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

Kleber Mendonça Filho has been announced as the president of this year's Cannes Critics' Week jury

Kleber Mendonça Filho has been announced as the president of this year's Cannes Critics' Week jury

The Brazilian filmmaker will chair the jury for the 56th edition of the event, to be part of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, from 18 to 26 May  

16/03/2017 | Cannes 2017 | Critics’ Week/Jury

Communion delicately portrays a patched-together family

Communion delicately portrays a patched-together family

LOCARNO 2016: For her debut feature, screened in the Critics’ Week at the Locarno Film Festival, Anna Zamecka sneaks into the everyday life of a family teetering between normality and chaos  

17/08/2016 | Locarno 2016 | Critics’ Week

Cahier africain: A glimpse into people’s lives that’s full of dignity

Cahier africain: A glimpse into people’s lives that’s full of dignity

LOCARNO 2016: Heidi Specogna embraces the camera to stand strong with those whose only weapon is courage, the courage to keep hoping in a possible future  

09/08/2016 | Locarno 2016 | Critics’ Week

The Critics’ Week Grand Prize goes to Mimosas

The Critics’ Week Grand Prize goes to Mimosas

CANNES 2016: Spanish director Óliver Laxe’s film emerges triumphant in the Critics’ Week; the Visionary Award goes to Albüm by Turkey’s Mehmet Can Mertoglu  

19/05/2016 | Cannes 2016 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Mimosas: Óliver Laxe’s mystical saga

Mimosas: Óliver Laxe’s mystical saga

CANNES 2016: The Galician director is in the Critics’ Week presenting a movie born of the union between an adventure film and the portrayal of a worldly mysticism  

19/05/2016 | Cannes 2016 | Critics’ Week

Tramontane: “A special case”

Tramontane: “A special case”

CANNES 2016: Vatche Boulghourjian shoots to fame with a clever and engaging first feature about a man searching for his identity amidst the web of lies Lebanon wove about his past  

17/05/2016 | Cannes 2016 | Critics' Week

Raw: A bloody great film

Raw: A bloody great film

CANNES 2016: This truly well-made and completely ‘mutant’ debut feature by Julia Ducournau is a gory piece that is completely original, thrilling and, in a word, impressive  

15/05/2016 | Cannes 2016 | Critics’ Week

Happy Times Will Come Soon: In the depths of nature

Happy Times Will Come Soon: In the depths of nature

CANNES 2016: Italy's Alessandro Comodin presents a sensitive and cryptic fable set in the dark heart of the forest  

14/05/2016 | Cannes 2016 | Critics' Week

Diamond Island: An ultramodern Cambodian dream

Diamond Island: An ultramodern Cambodian dream

CANNES 2016: For his debut feature, Davy Chou headed off to film on an island south of Phnom Penh, where an enormous luxury real-estate complex is being built  

14/05/2016 | Cannes 2016 | Critics' Week

Albüm: The impossible social tie

Albüm: The impossible social tie

CANNES 2016: Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s debut feature is formally a very accomplished film that dissects the absurd vacuity of existence without compromise  

12/05/2016 | Cannes 2016 | Critics’ Week

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