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

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 [+see also:
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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 [+see also:
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The full selection is as follows:

Feature Films

Competition

Aftersun [+see also:
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Alma Viva [+see also:
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interview: Cristèle Alves Meira
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Dalva [+see also:
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La Jauría [+see also:
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Summer Scars [+see also:
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Imagine - Ali Behrad (Iran)
The Woodcutter Story [+see also:
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Special Screenings

When You Finish Saving the World - Jesse Eisenberg (USA) (opening film)
Sons of Ramses [+see also:
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Everybody Loves Jeanne [+see also:
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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)

(Translated from French)