Parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival
Critics' Week
(French:
Semaine de la critique
), until 2008 called
International Critics' Week
(
Semaine internationale de la critique
), is a parallel section to the
Cannes Film Festival
organized by the
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
. It was created in 1962, after the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics's successful campaign for
Shirley Clarke
's
The Connection
to be screened at the
1961 Cannes Film Festival
.
[1]
It is the oldest non-official Cannes sidebar.
[2]
[3]
Critics' Week's objective is to discover and support new talents, showcasing first and second
feature films
by directors worldwide.
Bernardo Bertolucci
,
[4]
Philip Kaufman
,
Ken Loach
,
Tony Scott
,
Agnieszka Holland
,
[5]
Leos Carax
,
Wong Kar-wai
,
[6]
Guillermo del Toro
,
[7]
Jacques Audiard
,
Arnaud Desplechin
,
Gaspar Noe
,
[6]
Francois Ozon
,
[8]
Andrea Arnold
,
[9]
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
,
Julia Ducournau
,
[6]
Justine Triet
,
[10]
all began at Critics' Week.
Critics' Week presents a selective program of seven feature films and ten short films in competition.
[11]
There are also special screenings which are kept few in number in order to provide them greater visibility.
[12]
Feature films compete for Grand Prize, the SACD Prize, which is awarded for best screenplay, and the Gan Foundation Award, which helps films get distribution.
[13]
Short films can receive the Canal+ Award and the Discovery Award.
[14]
Debut feature films are eligible for the
Camera d'Or
, which is open to all first films in Official Selection and the parallel sections at Cannes.
[15]
Since its creation in 1990 and until 2010, there was no jury at Critics' Week. Journalists of all nationalities were invited to vote at the end of each screening of the films in competition, after which the Grand Prize was awarded. In 2011, on the occasion of its 50th edition, Critics' Week formed an international jury made up of four critics and chaired by Korean filmmaker
Lee Chang-dong
. Thereafter, the jury has been presided over by a director and consists of four members with writing, filmmaking, acting or programming backgrounds.
[16]
Notable jury presidents have included
Bertrand Bonello
,
Miguel Gomes
,
Andrea Arnold
,
Ronit Elkabetz
,
Valerie Donzelli
,
Kleber Mendonca Filho
,
Joachim Trier
,
Ciro Guerra
and
Cristian Mungiu
.
[17]
Main awards
[
edit
]
- Feature films
[14]
- Grand Prize (
Grand Prix
)
- French Touch Prize of the Jury (
Prix French Touch du jury
)
- Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award (
Prix Fondation Louis Roederer de la Revelation
)
- Gan Foundation Award for Distribution (
Prix Fondation Gan a la Diffusion
)
- SACD (
Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques
) (
Prix SACD
)
[18]
- Short films
[14]
- Discovery Award (
Prix Decouverte Leitz Cine
)
- Canal+ Award (
Prix Canal+
)
- Discontinued awards
- France 4 Visionary Award (
Prix Revelation France 4
)
(2012?2017)
[19]
[20]
[21]
Grand Prize winners
[
edit
]
The Grand Prize (
Grand Prix
) is the top prize of Critics' Week. In 2001, the prize was sponsored by the French energy company Primagaz.
[22]
Between 2011 and 2021, the Grand Prize was known as the
Nespresso Grand Prize
, named for its sponsor
Nespresso
.
[23]
[24]
[25]
Year
|
English title
|
Original title
|
Director(s)
|
Production country
|
Ref.
|
2001
|
Under the Moonlight
|
??? ??? ???
|
Reza Mirkarimi
|
Iran
|
[26]
|
2002
|
Respiro
|
Emanuele Crialese
|
Italy, France
|
[27]
|
2003
|
Since Otar Left
|
Depuis qu'Otar est parti...
|
Julie Bertuccelli
|
France, Belgium
|
[28]
|
2004
|
A Common Thread
|
Brodeuses
|
Eleonore Faucher
|
France
|
[29]
|
Or (My Treasure)
|
???
|
Keren Yedaya
|
France, Israel
|
[30]
|
2005
|
Me and You and Everyone We Know
|
Miranda July
|
United States
|
[31]
|
2006
|
Poison Friends
|
Les Amities malefiques
|
Emmanuel Bourdieu
|
France
|
[32]
|
2007
|
XXY
|
Lucia Puenzo
|
Argentina, Spain, France
|
[33]
|
2008
|
Snow
|
Snijeg
|
Aida Begi?
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Iran
|
[34]
|
2009
|
Adieu Gary
|
Nassim Amaouche
|
France
|
[35]
|
2010
|
Armadillo
|
Janus Metz Pedersen
|
Denmark
|
[36]
|
2011
|
Take Shelter
|
Jeff Nichols
|
United States
|
[37]
|
2012
|
Here and There
|
Aqui y alla
|
Antonio Mendez Esparza
|
Spain, United States, Mexico
|
[38]
|
2013
|
Salvo
|
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
|
Italy, France
|
[39]
|
2014
|
The Tribe
|
Плем'я
|
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
|
Ukraine
|
[40]
|
2015
|
Paulina
|
La patota
|
Santiago Mitre
|
Argentina, Brazil, France
|
[41]
|
2016
|
Mimosas
|
Oliver Laxe
|
Spain, Morocco, Franace, Qatar
|
[42]
|
2017
|
Makala
|
Emmanuel Gras
|
France
|
[43]
|
2018
|
Diamantino
|
Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
|
Portugal, France, Brazil
|
[44]
|
2019
|
I Lost My Body
|
J'ai perdu mon corps
|
Jeremy Clapin
|
France
|
[45]
|
2020
|
Festival cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
|
2021
|
Feathers
|
???
|
Omar El Zohairy
|
France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece
|
[46]
|
2022
|
The Pack
|
La jauria
|
Andres Ramirez Pulido
|
Colombia, France
|
[47]
|
2023
|
Tiger Stripes
|
Amanda Nell Eu
|
Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar
|
[48]
|
2024
|
Simon of the Mountain
|
Simon de la montana
|
Federico Luis
|
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
|
[49]
|
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