All Critics' Week articles
-
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
-
Reviews‘Adam’s Sake’ review: Critics Week opens with tense hospital drama from ’Playground’s Laura Wandel
Anamaria Vartolomei and Lea Drucker co-star
-
FeaturesCannes 2025 line-up guide: Critics’ Week titles
Includes films from Laura Wandel, Momoko Seto and Shih-Ching Tsou.
-
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.
-
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.
-
NewsDaniel Kaluuya, Rodrigo Sorogoyen join 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week jury
Sorogoyen will head this year’s jury after having to step down last year.
-
NewsDistrib 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.
-
Reviews‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’: Venice Review
The dark tourism sites of Paris prove a quirky backdrop for this unconventional love story
-
Features“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.
-
News‘Simon Of The Mountain’ wins top Cannes Critics’ Week prize
The Argentinian first feature is a coming of age story.
-
Reviews‘Animale’: Cannes Review
Emma Benestan directs an atmospheric genre hybrid set in a French bull-riding community
-
NewsZou 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.
-
Reviews‘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
-
Reviews‘Block Pass’: Cannes Review
Two teenage boys navigate small-town life in this Critics’ Week debut from the director of TV’s ’Le Bureau’
-
Reviews‘Blue Sun Palace’: Cannes Review
‘Superb’ Critics Week debut explores the precariousness of New York’s Chinese community
-
Reviews‘Queens Of Drama’: Cannes Review
A pop star and a lesbian punk fall in and out of love in this hyper-stylised French debut
-
Reviews‘Julie Keeps Quiet’: Cannes Review
A focused tennis player stays silent to protect her coach in this controlled Belgian debut
-
Reviews‘Locust’: Cannes Review
A low-level Taiwanese gangster finds himself at a difficult crossroads in this 2019-set drama
-
Reviews‘Simon Of The Mountain’: Cannes Review
A youg disabled man is not all he appears in this fresh, provocative Argentinian debut
-
Reviews‘Ghost Trail’: Cannes Review
Thrilling debut about a Syrian refugee in Europe taking revenge opens Critics Week