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358 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 05/12/2025.

Three European filmmakers selected in competition for Cannes’ Critics’ Week

Three European filmmakers selected in competition for Cannes’ Critics’ Week

Paloma Sermon-Daï, Iris Kaltenbäck and Vladimir Perisič will battle it out for the Grand Prize, while Marie Amachoukeli, Stéphan Castang, and Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni will get Special Screenings  

19/04/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Ava Cahen  • Artistic Director, Critics’ Week

Interview: Ava Cahen • Artistic Director, Critics’ Week

"We tend to listen when our hearts speak to us, when there’s critical unanimity and a convergence of views"

The artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week section discusses her 2023 selection  

17/04/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Audrey Diwan to chair the Cannes Critics’ Week jury

Audrey Diwan to chair the Cannes Critics’ Week jury

The jury of the parallel section, which will be presided over by the French filmmaker, also includes Franz Rogowski, Rui Poças, Kim Yutani and Meenakshi Shedde  

12/04/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

The Critics' Week's Next Step initiative announces the participants of its 9th instalment

The Critics' Week's Next Step initiative announces the participants of its 9th instalment

Seven young filmmakers are taking part in the programme organised by the Cannes autonomous programme which assists auteurs to make the leap to feature film  

05/12/2022 | Industry | Market | France

Vytautas Katkus  • Director of The Visitor

Interview: Vytautas Katkus • Director of The Visitor

"The Next Step Workshop helped me from a very early development stage to understand in which direction I should go with my movie"

CANNES 2022: The Lithuanian filmmaker discusses his feature film project, for which he received the Next Step Award from the Critics' Week, as well as his short film Cherries  

03/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics' Week

Mykko Myllylahti  • Director of The Woodcutter Story

Interview: Mykko Myllylahti • Director of The Woodcutter Story

"My character is the incarnation of optimism and hope despite having lost everything"

CANNES 2022: The Finnish filmmaker discusses the details of his story of snow, violence and happiness, which received the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution  

01/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics' Week

Festival Scope presents the 2022 Critics' Week short films online

Festival Scope presents the 2022 Critics' Week short films online

Eight short films selected for this year's edition are accessible online for free, from today until 1 June, on the platform  

26/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics' Week

La Jauría emerges victorious in the Cannes Critics’ Week

La Jauría emerges victorious in the Cannes Critics’ Week

CANNES 2022: Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s feature debut has scooped the Grand Prize, while the French Touch Prize was given to Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and the Rising Star Award went to Zelda Samson  

25/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Review: La Jauría

Review: La Jauría

CANNES 2022: Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s atmospheric debut feature trawls the murky depths of young delinquents’ criminal past as they undergo therapy in the isolation of the jungle  

24/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week

Simon Rieth • Director of Summer Scars

Interview: Simon Rieth • Director of Summer Scars

“Power and fantasy are metaphors for the very strong relationship between love and hate”

CANNES 2022: The young French filmmaker talks to us about his first feature film, which skillfully blends realism and fantasy  

24/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week

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