Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut ’When You Finish Saving The World’ will open the section focused on first and second films.
Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel section focused on first and second films, has unveiled the line-up for its 61st edition, running May 18-26.
The section will showcase 11 features, seven of them in competition, and another 13 shorts.
It is the first selection piloted by incoming Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, since taking over the reins from Charles Tesson, who stepped down at the end of last year’s 60th edition after 10 years at the helm.
At 36, she is the...
Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel section focused on first and second films, has unveiled the line-up for its 61st edition, running May 18-26.
The section will showcase 11 features, seven of them in competition, and another 13 shorts.
It is the first selection piloted by incoming Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, since taking over the reins from Charles Tesson, who stepped down at the end of last year’s 60th edition after 10 years at the helm.
At 36, she is the...
- 4/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Charles Tesson to step down after 10th edition at the helm.
French film critic Ava Cahen has been named as the new artistic director of Cannes Critics’ Week.
She replaces respected film critic and academic Charles Tesson who will step down after this year’s 60th edition after 10 years at the helm.
Under Critics’ Week regulations, an artistic director can serve a maximum of three terms of three years. Tesson was allowed one more edition to oversee the 60th anniversary.
Cahen will take up the role from August 1, having been a member of Critics’ Week feature film committee for five years.
French film critic Ava Cahen has been named as the new artistic director of Cannes Critics’ Week.
She replaces respected film critic and academic Charles Tesson who will step down after this year’s 60th edition after 10 years at the helm.
Under Critics’ Week regulations, an artistic director can serve a maximum of three terms of three years. Tesson was allowed one more edition to oversee the 60th anniversary.
Cahen will take up the role from August 1, having been a member of Critics’ Week feature film committee for five years.
- 6/15/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
PARIS -- A mixed bag of films from a diverse range of directors marks the competition lineup revealed Thursday for the International Critics Week sidebar at this year's Festival de Cannes. Critics Week is the festival's oldest sidebar and features only a director's first or second film. New artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon, who took over from Claire Clouzot in January, characterized this year's selection as "portraits of society."...
- 4/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- A mixed bag of films from a diverse range of directors marks the competition lineup revealed Thursday for the International Critics Week sidebar at this year's Festival de Cannes. Critics Week is the festival's oldest sidebar and features only a director's first or second film. New artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon, who took over from Claire Clouzot in January, characterized this year's selection as "portraits of society."...
- 4/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes' oldest sidebar, International Critics' Week, has appointed Jean-Christophe Berjon as the new artistic director to replace Claire Clouzot, whose three-year term recently came to an end, the organizers announced Wednesday. Clouzot, a well-known TV presenter and radio commentator on cinema, was elected by the sidebar's organizers, the French Union of Film Critics. He is chief editor of French film weekly Les Fiches du Cinema and also edits the Annuel du Cinema yearbook.
- 6/24/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French-language filmmaking will be in the forefront at the International Critics Week sidebar of the Festival de Cannes this year, with Gallic productions snapping up four out of seven places In Competition, part of an overall lineup that includes no American entries. The festival's oldest sidebar, which features only first and second directorial ventures, will present "a balance between pure trash full of horror and fun and realistic films mirroring very different societies," Critics Week artistic director Claire Clouzot said in an interview Wednesday. "We had a rough time competing with the official selection and Directors' Fortnight, but we've finally come up with the right equilibrium." Two of the "realistic" films featured in the Competition section deal with the political crisis in the Middle East: Atash (Thirst), by Tawfik Abu Wael -- a Palestinian documentary filmmaker living in Jaffa, Israel -- is about a father and a son coping with troubled times, while Or, a French production by Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya, is a tale of a mother and daughter's survival in a society that offers few choices to women.
- 4/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French-language filmmaking will be in the forefront at the International Critics Week sidebar of the Festival de Cannes this year, with Gallic productions snapping up four out of seven places In Competition, part of an overall lineup that includes no American entries. The festival's oldest sidebar, which features only first and second directorial ventures, will present "a balance between pure trash full of horror and fun and realistic films mirroring very different societies," Critics Week artistic director Claire Clouzot said in an interview Wednesday. "We had a rough time competing with the official selection and Directors' Fortnight, but we've finally come up with the right equilibrium." Two of the "realistic" films featured in the Competition section deal with the political crisis in the Middle East: Atash (Thirst), by Tawfik Abu Wael -- a Palestinian documentary filmmaker living in Jaffa, Israel -- is about a father and a son coping with troubled times, while Or, a French production by Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya, is a tale of a mother and daughter's survival in a society that offers few choices to women.
- 4/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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