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Critics' Week


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

Eat Sleep Die: Sweden wakes up differently

Gabriela Pincher gives us some insight into a country to have lost its innocence  

04/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Critics’ week

Welcome Home: A love-hate ode to Brussels

Tom Heene's three shorts turned into a feature lack direction, but benefit from powerful performances  

03/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Critics Week

A Month in Thailand: Strong debut from Romania

Paul Negoescu's first feature explores a world of love and indecision  

03/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Critics Week

A new director is born, his name is Luigi Lo Cascio

A directing debut for an actor loved by Italian audiences, who puts his name to a moral thriller called La città ideale  

01/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Critics’ week

Aquí y allá wins Grand Prize

Spanish filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza's feature debut wins at the Critics' Week. The Visionary Prize goes to Sofia's Last Ambulance 

24/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Critics' Week

Maddened by His Absence or an impossible mourning

In her first fiction film, actress Sandrine Bonnaire directs William Hurt as a father maddened by his child’s death and unable to accept that he is no longer someone’s father.  

23/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Critics’ Week

Uncompromising view of Sofia’s Last Ambulance

Bulgarian director Ilian Metev’s documentary feature debut Sofia’s Last Ambulance follows a three-person medical team as it goes taking care of emergencies around Bulgaria’s capital over a 48-hour...  

23/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Critics’ Week

Aquí y allá: rekindling family ties

Spanish filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza set up his camera in a small Mexican village to make a profound, calm, and delicate first film.  

22/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Critics’ Week

God’s Neighbours: violence and (religious) order on the streets of Bat-Yam

In his first film, Israeli filmmaker Meni Yaesh portrays a group of friends using force to implement religious rules  

22/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Critics’ Week

Beyond The Walls: believing in life after absence

Belgian director David Lambert has made a sensitive first film about love, absence, and the disenchanted reunion of an endearing couple of actors. Selected for the Critics' Week in Cannes.  

20/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Critics' Week

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