Critics' Week

Critics' Week (French: Semaine de la critique), until 2008 called International Critics' Week (Semaine internationale de la critique), is a parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. It was created in 1962 after the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics's successful campaign for Shirley Clarke's The Connection to be screened at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Critics' Week

Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1962
Awards	Grand Prize
Website	www.semainedelacritique.com

Critics' Week's objective is to discover and support new talents, showcasing first and second feature films by directors worldwide. Bernardo Bertolucci, Philip Kaufman, Ken Loach, Tony Scott, Agnieszka Holland, Leos Carax, Wong Kar-wai, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Gaspar Noé, François Ozon, Andrea Arnold, Alejandro González Iñárritu,^[2] Julia Ducournau, Justine Triet, all began at Critics' Week.

Critics' Week presents a selective program of seven feature films and seven short films in Cannes in order to provide them greater visibility. Journalists and films critics are invited to vote after each screening of the selection, after which the Grand Prize is awarded. Feature films also run for the SACD Prize for best screenplay and the ACID Prize, which helps films get distribution. In 2012, the France 4 Visionary Award (Prix Revelation) was introduced to reflect "the cinephile's passion for young talent" in the film industry. Short films can receive the Canal+ Award for best short film and the Kodak Discovery Award. The first feature films also run for the Caméra d'Or.

Notable jury presidents have included Cristian Mungiu, Joachim Trier, Valérie Donzelli, Ciro Guerra and Kleber Mendonça Filho.

Main Awards

• Feature Films
  • Grand Prize
  • France 4 Visionary Award
  • SACD Prize
• Short Films
  • Discovery Award
  • Canal+ Award

Grand Prize Winners

The Grand Prize (Grand Prix) is the top prize of Critics' Week. In 2001, the prize was sponsored by the French energy company Primagaz.^[3] Between 2011 and 2021, the Grand Prize was known as the Nespresso Grand Prize, named for its sponsor Nespresso.^[4][5][6]

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref.
2001	Under the Moonlight	زیر نور ماه	Reza Mirkarimi	Iran	^[7]
2002	Respiro		Emanuele Crialese	Italy, France	^[8]
2003	Since Otar Left	Depuis qu'Otar est parti...	Julie Bertuccelli	France, Belgium	^[9]
2004	A Common Thread	Brodeuses	Éléonore Faucher	France	^[10]
	Or (My Treasure)		Keren Yedaya	France, Israel	^[11]
2005	Me and You and Everyone We Know		Miranda July	United States	^[12]
2006	Poison Friends	Les Amitiés maléfiques	Emmanuel Bourdieu	France	^[13]
2007	XXY		Lucía Puenzo	Argentina, Spain, France	^[14]
2008	Snow	Snijeg	Aida Begić	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Iran	^[15]
2009	Adieu Gary		Nassim Amaouche	France	^[16]
2010	Armadillo		Janus Metz Pedersen	Denmark	^[17]
2011	Take Shelter		Jeff Nichols	United States	^[18]
2012	Here and There	Aquí y allá	Antonio Méndez Esparza	Spain, United States, Mexico	^[19]
2013	Salvo		Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza	Italy, France	^[20]
2014	The Tribe	Плем'я	Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy	Ukraine	^[21]
2015	Paulina	La patota	Santiago Mitre	Argentina, Brazil, France	^[22]
2016	Mimosas		Oliver Laxe	Spain, Morocco, Franace, Qatar	^[23]
2017	Makala		Emmanuel Gras	France	^[24]
2018	Diamantino		Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt	Portugal, France, Brazil	^[25]
2019	I Lost My Body	J'ai perdu mon corps	Jérémy Clapin	France	^[26]
2020	Festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Feathers		Omar El Zohairy	France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece	^[27]
2022	The Pack	La jauría	Andrés Ramirez Pulido	Colombia, France	^[28]
2023	Tiger Stripes		Amanda Nell Eu	Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar	^[29]

References

1. "La Semaine de la Critique". Retrieved 30 July 2017.
2. "Alejandro González Iñárritu". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
3. "Festival de Cannes 2001 / Palmarès". www.cannes-fest.com/2001/palmares.htm (in French). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
4. Partenaire, Contenu (29 April 2019). "Nespresso au Festival de Cannes 2019 : à la rencontre des étoiles de la table et du grand écran". Les Inrockuptibles. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
5. "Prize List 2021". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
6. "Prize List 2022". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
7. "Ziré Nouré Mâh Under the Moonlight". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
8. "Respiro". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
9. "Depuis qu'Otar est parti". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
10. "Brodeuses". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
11. "Or / Mon trésor". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
12. "Me and You and Everyone We Know / Moi, toi et tous les autres". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
13. "Les Amitiés maléfiques". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
14. "XXY". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
15. "Snijeg Snow / Premières neiges". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
16. "Adieu Gary". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
17. "Armadillo". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
18. "Take Shelter". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
19. "Aquí y Allá Ici et là-bas". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
20. "Salvo". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
21. "Plemya The Tribe". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
22. "Paulina / La patota". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
23. "Mimosas / Mimosas, la voie de l'Atlas". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
24. "Makala". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
25. "Diamantino". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
26. "J'ai perdu mon corps I Lost My Body". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
27. "Feathers / Plumes". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
28. "L'Eden (La Jauría)". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
29. "Tiger Stripes". La Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 27 May 2023.

External links

• Critics' Week Official Website