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Critics' Week


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

Tiger Stripes comes out on top in the Cannes Critics’ Week

Tiger Stripes comes out on top in the Cannes Critics’ Week

CANNES 2023: The feature debut by Malaysia’s Amanda Nell Eu has won the Grand Prize, while the French Touch Prize went to Paloma Sermon-Daï’s It’s Raining in the House  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Review: Power Alley

Review: Power Alley

CANNES 2023: The first feature by Brazilian director Lillah Halla is a vibrant, sweaty mashup of underdog sports flick and arthouse abortion drama  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Review: Lost Country

Review: Lost Country

CANNES 2023: Vladimir Perišić returns with his first film in thirteen years, set during the 1996 elections in Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni  • Directors of The (Ex)perience of Love

Interview: Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni • Directors of The (Ex)perience of Love

"If we were told that we’d have zero constraints for our next film... We'd go for it!"

CANNES 2023: With this new film, the whimsical Brussels filmmaking duo confirms the hopes placed in their first feature, Madly in Life  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Iris Kaltenbäck  • Director of The Rapture

Interview: Iris Kaltenbäck • Director of The Rapture

"I read a headline in the newspaper about this woman and made the film to understand her, without having answers"

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker discusses the topics, the making and the cast of her first feature, which follows a young midwife who embarks on a deceitful journey that may cost her everything  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics' Week

Review: The (Ex)perience of Love

Review: The (Ex)perience of Love

CANNES 2023: Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni jubilantly try their hand at romantic comedy, gleefully transgressing the codes, once again staging their taste for constraint  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Rapture

Review: The Rapture

CANNES 2023: Iris Kaltenbäck helms a gripping feature debut, depicting a young woman weakened by a lack of love and the solitude of the city, whose life slowly turns upside down  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Liar Man wins the Next Step Hildegarde Award at Cannes

Liar Man wins the Next Step Hildegarde Award at Cannes

CANNES 2023: The project by Greece’s Manolis Mavris has taken home the prize handed out by the Critics’ Week, while the programme is being bolstered by Next Step Volume 2  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Stéphan Castang  • Director of Vincent Must Die

Interview: Stéphan Castang • Director of Vincent Must Die

"Little by little, we advance towards the nightmare"

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker sheds light on his highly original first feature film revolving around a man who suddenly falls victim to incomprehensible violence  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Paloma Sermon-Daï • Director of It’s Raining in the House

Interview: Paloma Sermon-Daï • Director of It’s Raining in the House

"The film was written as it was made"

CANNES 2023: The young Belgian filmmaker talks about her sensitive portrait of a brother and a sister who live their last adolescent summer in a Wallonian resort  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

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