Cannes Critics’ Week Winners
Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) reveals its top prizes. The parallel selection of the Cannes Film Festival focuses on first and second-time feature directors.
Grand Prize:
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.
French Touch Prize of the Jury
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.
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
Dir. Pauline Loquès
Synopsis:
A young drifter, who spends three days wandering the streets after losing the keys to his apartment.
