"More accessible," "less cerebral," are the watchwords used by chief selector Claire Clouzot to describe the line-up for the Critics' Week section at Cannes.

The section will open with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Spanish thriller Intacto, in which every character is the pawn of another. It premiered at Sundance and has already been bought for remake by Disney. The section continues with a rare Japanese tragi-comedy Chicken Heart and continues with fluid story-telling in Emanuele Crialese's Respiro Mio and Les Fils De Marie, the directorial debut - an offbeat romance - by well-known Canadian actress Carole Laure.

Although the section contains Bella Ciao, a stunning documentary about police brutality at the G8 Summit in Genoa - the film is banned in Italy - Clouzot says her section contains markedly less violence than the section has come to be associated with in recent years. "We are definitely down on serial-killers and we have found humour in some serious subjects."

Feature films
Rana's Wedding Dir: Hany Abu-Assad - 2002 - Palestine/Neth
Filles Perdues, Cheveux Gras, Dir: Claude Duty - 2002 - France
Jukeodo Jo A (Too Young To Die) Dir: Jin Pyo Park - 2002 - Korea
Les Fils De Marie Dir: Carole Laure - 2002 - France/Canada
Respiro Mio, Dir: Emanuele Crialese - 2002 - Italy/France
Kabala Dir: Assane Kouyate - 2002- Mali/France
Chicken Heart, Dir: Hiroshi Shimizu - 2001 - Japan

Short films
The Day I Was Born Dir: Kunitoshi Manda - Japan - 2002
Mote Med Ondskan Dir: Reza Parsa - 2001- Sweden
Malcolm Dir: Baker Karim - Sweden - 2002
Lettre Au Fils Dir: Philippe Welsh - 2002- France
De Mesmer, Con Amor O Te Para Dos , Dir: Salvador Aguirre et Alejandro Lubezki - 2002 - Mexico
2 Minuter Dir: Jacob Tschernia - 2001 - Denmark
Le Vigile Dir: Frederic Pelle - France -2002

Special Screenings

Intacto Dir: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - 2001 - Spain
Hundstage (Dog Days) Dir: Ulrich Seidl - 2001 - Austria
More Dir: Barbet Schroeder - 1969 - Luxembourg
Bella Ciao, (doc) Dir: Roberto Torelli & Marco Giusti - 2001 - Italy
Da Zero A Dieci Dir: Luciano Ligabue - Italy - 2001