The Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, a strand devoted exclusively to first and second films which runs parallel to the festival, has today revealed the 11 feature films and 13 short films which will screen at this year’s edition.
Inaugurating the event is Jesse Eisenberg‘s A24 comedy-drama When You Finish Saving the World, based on his own Audible Original of the same name, which premiered at Sundance this year. Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard play mother and son in this film which tells the timeless story of parents and children struggling to connect across the generational chasm that separates them.
This strand will be brought to a close with Jung July‘s Da-eum-so-hee (Next Sohee), a gripping feminist crime drama starring Bae Doona (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Host, A Girl At My Door).
The complete schedule for this year’s Critics’ Week follows below, which runs from May 18-26:
Competition
Feature Films
Aftersun (UK / U.S.)
Dir. Charlotte Wells
Alma Viva (Portugal / France)
Dir. Cristèle Alves Meira
Dalva (Love according to Dalva) (Belgium / France)
Dir. Emmanuelle Nicot
La Jauría (Colombia / France)
Dir. Andrés Ramírez Pulido
Metsurin tarina (The Woodcutter Story) (Finland)
Dir. Mikko Myllylahti
Nos Cérémonies (Summer Scars) (France)
Dir. Simon Rieth
Tasavor (Imagine) (Iran)
Dir. Ali Behrad
Short Films
Canker (China)
Dir. Lin Tu
Cuerdas (Chords) (Spain)
Dir. Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Dang Wo Wang Xiang Ni De Shi Hou (Will You Look At Me) (China)
Dir. Shuli Huang
Ice Merchants (Portugal / UK / France)
Dir. João Gonzalez
It’s Nice in Here (Netherlands)
Dirr. Robert-Jonathan Koeyers
Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol (Chile / France)
Dir. Diego Céspedes
Nisam je stigao voljeti (I didn’t make it to love her) (Bosnia / Spain / UK)
Dir. Anna Fernandez De Paco
Στον Θρονο Του Ξερξη (On Xerxes’ Throne) (Greece)
Dir. Evi Kalogiropoulou
Raie Manta (Manta Ray) (France)
Dir. Anton Bialas
Swan dans le centre (Swan in the center) (France)
Dir. Iris Chassaigne
Special screenings
Features
When You Finish Saving The World (U.S.) – Opening Film
Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
Goutte d’Or (Sons Of Ramses) (France)
Dir. Clément Cogitore
Tout le monde aime Jeanne (Everybody loves Jeanne) (France / Portugal)
Dir. Céline Devaux
Da-eum-so-hee (Next Sohee) (South Korea) – Closing Film
Dir. Jung July
Short films
Amo (France)
Dir. Emmanuel Gras
Hideous (UK)
Dir. Yann Gonzalez
Scale (France / UK / Czech Republic / Belgium)
Dir. Joseph Pierce
