All Critics' Week articles
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‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits the picturesque Pankissi valley in search of his roots
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‘Sleepless City’ review: Coming-of-age drama set in Europe’s largest shanty town in Spain
Spain’s La Cañada Real outside Madrid is ian evocative backdrop for Guillermo Garcia Lopez’s drama
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‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Alice Douard’s confident feature debut stars Mona Rumpf and Monia Chokri
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‘A Useful Ghost’ review: A haunted vacuum cleaner collides with Thailand’s recent past
This deadpan Thai comedy-drama takes big risks and comes out swinging
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‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Performance-driven Critics Week title is the directorial debut of Baker’s regular collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou
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‘Reedland’ review: A violent crime rocks a rural Dutch community
Sven Bresser’s confident Critics Week debut makes effective use of its traditional setting
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‘Adam’s Sake’ review: Critics Week opens with tense hospital drama from ’Playground’s Laura Wandel
Anamaria Vartolomei and Lea Drucker co-star
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Features
Cannes 2025 line-up guide: Critics’ Week titles
Includes films from Laura Wandel, Momoko Seto and Shih-Ching Tsou.
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News
How is UK-Ireland represented in the Cannes 2025 lineup?
‘My Father’s Shadow’, ’Pillion’ and ‘Urchin’ are among the UK-Irish films heading to the Croisette.
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Totem Films boards international sales for Alexe Poukine’s Critics’ Week selection ‘Kika’
EXCLUSIVE: Alexe Poukine’s debut fiction feature will premiere in the Critics’ Week competition.
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Daniel Kaluuya, Rodrigo Sorogoyen join 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week jury
Sorogoyen will head this year’s jury after having to step down last year.
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Distrib Films picks up US rights to French coming-of-age drama ‘Block Pass’ (exclusive)
Antoine Chevrollier’s debut feature premiered at Critics’ Week in Cannes 2024.
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‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’: Venice Review
The dark tourism sites of Paris prove a quirky backdrop for this unconventional love story
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“Genre is political”: Emma Benestan talks about her Critics’ Week closer ‘Animale’
The French-Algerian director says the film was inspired by its Camargue location.
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‘Simon Of The Mountain’ wins top Cannes Critics’ Week prize
The Argentinian first feature is a coming of age story.
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‘Animale’: Cannes Review
Emma Benestan directs an atmospheric genre hybrid set in a French bull-riding community
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Zou Jing wins Critics’ Week Next Step prize for coming-of-age drama ‘A Girl Unknown’
Didar Domehri of France’s Maneki Films has come on to co-produce.
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‘Baby’: Cannes Review
A young man abandoned by his parents turns to sex work on the streets of Sao Paolo in this upbeat Critics Week title
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‘Block Pass’: Cannes Review
Two teenage boys navigate small-town life in this Critics’ Week debut from the director of TV’s ’Le Bureau’
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‘Blue Sun Palace’: Cannes Review
‘Superb’ Critics Week debut explores the precariousness of New York’s Chinese community