All Critics' Week articles
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Reviews‘Alive’ review: Actress-filmmaker Aina Clotet’s grounded debut channels personal and global anxiety
Clotet’s Critics’ Week title delivers a controlled study of illness, impulse and the fear of time running out
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Reviews‘Dua’ review: Blerta Basholli follows ‘Hive’ with taut drama set against the tensions of 1990s Kosovo
The director’s Cannes Critics Week title features an impressive performance from newcomer Pinea Matoshi
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FeaturesCannes 2026 lineup guide: Critics’ Week titles
Includes Phuong Mai Nguyen’s debut feature ’In Waves’ and Felix De Givry’s ’Goodbye Cruel World’ starring Anatomy Of A Fall breakout star Milo Machado-Graner.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week anthology ‘Next Step Studio Indonesia’ boarded by Rediance
EXCLUSIVE: Reza Rahadian and Khozy Rizal are among the directors.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week Irish-French documentary ‘Tin Castle’ picked up for sales
EXCLUSIVE: The film follows the O’Reilly family as they face eviction from their trailer in Ireland.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week unveils jury headed by Payal Kapadia, jurors include BFI’s Ama Ampadu
‘Lurker’ actor Theodore Pellerin from Quebec is among the jurors.
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NewsWhat does our Cannes insider make of the Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week lineups? - The Screen Podcast
Rebecca Leffler and Wendy Mitchell take an in-depth look at the Cannes parallel sections.
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NewsDutch Oscar submission ‘Reedland’ finds US distributor
EXCLUSIVE: Dark drama has drawn robust 40,000 admissions in Netherlands.
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Reviews‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Theodore Pellin won the Critics’ Week Rising Star Award for his ‘soulful’ performance in Pauline Loques’ debut feature
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week unveils prizes for 2025 edition
‘A Useful Ghost’, ‘Imago’, ‘Nino’ all take prizes.
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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 Galoe’s drama
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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FeaturesCannes 2025 line-up guide: Critics’ Week titles
Includes films from Laura Wandel, Momoko Seto and Shih-Ching Tsou.
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NewsHow 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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NewsTotem 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.