Cannes Critics’ Week
Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) drops its selection. The parallel selection of the Cannes Film Festival focuses on first and second-time feature directors.
Here are the seven competition films:
Dir: Shih-Ching Tsou (Prod: Red Rocket, The Florida Project Tangerine)
Co-Writer/Editor/Producer: Sean Baker (Anora)
Synopsis:
A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity.
She’s a long-time collaborator with Baker and co-directed her first feature with him, Take Out (2004).
Kika
Dir. Alexe Poukine
Prod: Benoit Roland (Utopia’s Omen)
Sybopsis:
While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight: stay strong and make money fast.
Dir. Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Synopsis:
Explores Pitsaev’s plans to build a futuristically designed house at odds with the landscape and local traditions on a small plot of land in a Georgian valley at the foot of the Caucasus, on the border of Chechnya.
Dir. Pauline Loquès
Synopsis:
A young drifter, who spends three days wandering the streets after losing the keys to his apartment.
Dir. Sven Bresser
Sales Rep: The Party Film Sales (Four Daughters)
When reed cutter Johan discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land, he is overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt. While taking care of his granddaughter, he sets out on a quest to track down evil.
Dir. Guillermo Galoe
Synopsis:
In Madrid's largest informal settlement, 15-year-old Toni and his scrap-collecting family face eviction from their home. As his grandfather stands firm against leaving, Toni navigates between tradition and survival amid darkening nights.
First look image.
Dir: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Sales Rep: Best Friend Forever (Universal Language)
Synopsis:
A happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution.
First look image, like a shade of Antonioni’s Red Desert.
Check out the special screenings here.