Five European filmmakers to compete in Cannes’ Critics’ Week [EN]

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CANNES 2022 Critics' Week

by Fabien Lemercier 20/04/2022 - Emmanuelle Nicot, Cristèle Alves Meira, Charlotte Wells, Mikko Myllylahti and Simon Rieth will battle it out for the Grand Prize, while Céline Devaux and Clément Cogitore will get special screenings

The Woodcutter Story by Mikko Myllylahti

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Five European filmmakers will take part in the competition organised by the 61st Critics’ Week, which will unfold between 18 and 26 May as part of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

Unveiled today in an online press conference chaired by new general delegate Ava Cahen (and accessible on the Critics’ Week website), the programme for this 2022 edition includes 11 feature films in total, seven of which will be screened in competition and assessed by a jury helmed by Kaouther Ben Hania (read our news).

Among these seven first feature films in the running for the Critics’ Week Grand Prize are Belgian director Emmanuelle Nicot’s Dalva (read our article), French-Portuguese filmmaker Cristèle Alves Meira’s Alma Viva, Scottish helmer Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun (co-produced by the USA), Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti (read our news; the co-writer of The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki [+], which triumphed within the Un Certain Regard section in 2016) with The Woodcutter Story (co-produced by Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany) and France’s Simon Rieth with Summer Scars (news).

The competition will be rounded off by a South American film coming courtesy of Colombia’s Andrés Ramírez Pulido (produced with France) and a movie by Iran’s Ali Behrad.

The 2022 selection also includes two French productions set to be showcased out of competition in special screenings: Sons of Ramses by Clément Cogitore (news – his second feature after The Wakhan Front [+], discovered in Critics’ Week in 2015) and Everybody Loves Jeanne by Céline Devaux (article). The opening and closing films of this year’s Critics’ Week are sure to cause a stir too, since the event’s kicking off with When You Finish Saving the World, the first feature film directed by American actor Jesse Eisenberg, and is drawing to a close courtesy of Next Sohee, which is the second feature film by South Korea’s July Jung (who turned many a head in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard showcase in 2014 with her first opus A Girl at My Door).

The full selection is as follows: Feature Films Competition Aftersun - Charlotte Wells (UK/USA) Alma Viva - Cristèle Alves Meira (France/Portugal) Dalva - Emmanuelle Nicot (Belgium/France) La Jauría - Andrés Ramírez Pulido (Colombia/France) Summer Scars - Simon Rieth (France) Imagine - Ali Behrad (Iran) The Woodcutter Story - Mikko Myllylahti (Finland/Denmark/the Netherlands/Germany) Special Screenings

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When You Finish Saving the World - Jesse Eisenberg (USA) (opening film) Sons of Ramses - Clément Cogitore (France) Everybody Loves Jeanne - Céline Devaux (France) Next Sohee - Jung July (South Korea) (closing film) Short Films Competition Canker – Lin Tu (China) Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol - Diego Cespedes (Chile/France) Chords - Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain) Will You Look At Me - Shuli Huang (China) Ice Merchants - João Gonzalez (Portugal/UK/France) It’s Nice In Here - Robert-Jonathan Koeyers (the Netherlands) I Didn’t Make It To Love Her - Anna Fernandez De Paco (Bosnia/Spain/UK) On Xerxes’ Throne - Evi Kalogiropoulou (Greece) Manta Ray - Anton Bialas (France) Swan in the Centre - Iris Chassaigne (France) Special Screenings Amo - Emmanuel Gras (France) Hideous - Yann Gonzalez (UK) Scale - Joseph Pierce (France/UK/Czech Republic/Belgium)

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