Ava Cahen, the new director of the parallel section of the Festival dedicated to the first or second film of young directors from around the world, unveiled the 2022 edition program.
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After the official competition then the fifteen directors, it is the turn of the criticism week to announce the program of its 61 e edition, which will take place in Cannes from 18 to the May 26th. A special edition, since led for the first time by Ava Cahen, 36, a cinema and series specialist who, since 2016, worked with Charles Tesson, his predecessor at this position for ten years. The latter had passed the torch at the closing ceremony, in July 2021, with a non-pretended enthusiasm, expressing his “pride” to see him succeeding this young woman to whom he “gave all his confidence”. Another novelty, this year: the creation of the jury’s French TOUCH prize that will particularly reward, among feature films in competition, inventiveness and “audacity of a unique cinema gesture”. The sum of 8,000 euros will be given to the winner.
The week of criticism, which highlights the first or second short filmmakers from around the world, had awarded in 2021 its Grand Prix to the very intriguing Egyptian feathers Omar El Zohairy, outroom in April. A title for which seven first films this year (the only in competition among the eleven presented) under the process of the jury chaired by the Tunisian director Kaouthern Ben Hania (the Challat de Tunis, 2014; the beautiful and the pack, 2017, L Man who sold his skin, 2020), a regular from the parallel selections of Cannes.
Among these seven films, we will discover Alma Viva of the Franco-Portuguese Cristere Alves Meira, director of documentaries and putting on the theater which, for his first feature film, has chosen a return to the sources. Either a trip to a remote village of Portugal that tells us a family story, customs and witches.
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It will also be a question of legend in our ceremonies, from French Simon Rieth, who promises a fantastic fable, around two brothers who love each other, jealously and share a more and more heavy secret to bring as They grow up.
The first name of a small heroin of 12 years gives his title, Dalva, to the film of the Belgian director Emmanuelle Nicot, a story of a love between a father and his daughter where, behind the beautiful appearances, hides a reality much darker.
Conversely, the father-daughter duo staged the British Charlotte Wells in Aftersun promises a stay in bright and swirling holiday club. While the father-son tandem, in the first film Woodcutter Story of Finnish Mikko Myllylahti, announces a half-hue film, a tragi-comedy that questions the meaning of life.
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