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Cannes 2022: the stand-out short films
Screen mentee and Unifrance Critics Lab participant Alexandria Slater journeys through this year’s short films from Cannes.
‘Masquerade’: Cannes Review
Nicolas Bedos’ mystery thriller has the suspense and sardonic wit of the Hollywood classics
‘Mother And Son’: Cannes Review
A sensitive and complex triptych of a migrant family from the Ivory Coast arriving in 1980s France
‘Showing Up’: Cannes Review
Michelle Williams stars in Kelly Reichardt’s first Cannes Competition entry, a wry comedy about a solitary sculptor
‘The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou’: Cannes Review
Lucas Delangle’s offbeat debut concerns a young man torn between mysticism and music
‘Magdala’: Cannes Review
Damien Manivel creates a gentle, unhurried portrait of Mary Magdalene in this melancholy autumnal tale
‘Salam’: Cannes Review
Doc exploring French rap star Diam’s mental health and conversion to Islam is compromised by the involvement of its subject
‘For The Sake Of Peace’: Cannes Review
Forest Whitaker-backed doc follows two young South Sudanese people determined to reclaim their country
‘The Beasts’: Cannes Review
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller about outsiders in a Galician village is ’a brooding, muscular piece of filmmaking’
‘Dodo’: Cannes Review
Panos Koutras’ chaotic comedy farce is an ambitious fresco of a family’s existential crisis
‘Close’: Cannes Review
Lukas Dhont’s |Grand Prix-winning picture is an intimate, quietly devastating study of childhood friendship between two boys
‘Rebel’: Cannes Review
Adil & Bilall’s family drama about Jihad radicalisation hits close to home for the Belgian-Moroccan duo
‘Broker’: Cannes Review
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first Korean-language picture is a sensitive and compassionate look at the market for unwanted children
‘Pacifiction’: Cannes Review
Albert Serra’s latest is the strangely captivating tale of a colourful politician in French Polynesia
‘The Vagabonds’: Cannes Review
Doroteya Droumeva’s feature debut follows a woman searching for relationships with younger men in Berlin
‘Burning Days’: Cannes Review
Emin Alper’s tense Turkish thriller critiquing maschismo is a standout among this year’s films in Un Certain Regard
‘The Green Perfume’: Cannes Review
Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lacoste star in Nicolas Pariser’s whimsical comedy adventure
‘1976’: Cannes Review
An impressive and moving debut from actor turned director Manuela Martelli
‘The Blue Caftan’: Cannes Review
This beautifully textured Moroccan drama is a ’superbly acted and emotionally resonant offering’
‘Butterfly Vision’: Cannes Review
Maksym Nakonechnyi’s debut feature is a sensitive meditation on the psychological effects of war
