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Critics' Week


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

Hope: a drop of love in a cruel world

Hope: a drop of love in a cruel world

CANNES 2014: Reality cinema for Boris Lojkine and a moving story of a desperate trip across Northern Africa by a Nigerian and a Cameroonian who dream of Europe  

20/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Critics’ Week

Gente de bien: "We don't fit in here"

Gente de bien: "We don't fit in here"

CANNES 2014: Family and class relationships for the first feature film by Colombian Franco Lolli, a sensitive and humanist film produced by France  

19/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Critics' Week

Darker Than Midnight: transgender, young and escaping

Darker Than Midnight: transgender, young and escaping

CANNES 2014: A dramatic coming-of-age story set in Sicily in a film that is openly inspired by the adolescents of Truffaut and Gus Van Sant  

16/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Critics’ Week/Italy

FLA (Faire l'amour): Dialogue of the deaf

FLA (Faire l'amour): Dialogue of the deaf

CANNES 2014: Haitian/Parisian director Djinn Carrénard opened the Critics’ Week with an intimate and realistic film about two characters fiercely silenced  

16/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Critics’ Week/France

Darker Than Midnight: a drag queen strutting on the Croisette

Darker Than Midnight: a drag queen strutting on the Croisette

Following the incredible success of Salvo in 2013 (winning the Grand Prix and Revelation Prize), Italy is in competition at the Critics’ Week with Darker Than Midnight, Sebastiano Riso’s debut  

22/04/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Critics’ Week

Six French productions in programme

Six French productions in programme

Hope and Gente de bien aim for the Grand Prix. Also lined up are FLA, Respire, Hippocrate and L'Institutrice  

22/04/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Critics’ Week

The Critics’ Week selection is unveiled

The Critics’ Week selection is unveiled

Italian director Sebastiano Riso, Danish filmmaker Jonas Arnby and France’s Boris Lojkine are in competition. Meanwhile, Carrénard, Lilti and Mélanie Laurent will be out of competition  

21/04/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Critics’ Week

The drama of bullying in The Reunion

The drama of bullying in The Reunion

The first feature length film by Swedish artist Anna Odell tells the story of a dramatic reunion between old classroom companions, between reality and fiction  

06/09/2013 | Venice 2013 | Critics’ Week

Zoran, an alcoholic comedy

Zoran, an alcoholic comedy

An exhilarating Giuseppe Battiston stars in Gorizia-native Matteo Oleotto’s debut film  

06/09/2013 | Venice 2013 | Critics’ Week

White Shadow, albinos’ plight in Tanzania

White Shadow, albinos’ plight in Tanzania

Artist Noaz Deshe put his name to a promising directing debut. Actor Ryan Gosling, who is involved with various African causes, is the executive producer  

04/09/2013 | Venice 2013 | Critics’ Week

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