Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils 2023 Line-up – Full List
17.04.2023 - 10:13
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Cannes Critics’ Week has announced the selection for its 62nd edition, running from May 17 to 25.
The parallel Cannes section will screen 11 features, seven in competition, and four as special screenings, selected from 1,000 submissions. Scroll down for the full list.
The section, which is overseen by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, focuses on first and second features as well as shorts by emerging talents.
Stories of couples, parenthood, family relationships and friendships unfolding against difficult political or societal realities abound in this year’s line-up.
In Competition, Brazilian director Lillah Halla’s Power Alley (Levante) follows a budding teenage volleyball champion who discovers she is pregnant on the eve of an important championship and then comes up against Brazil’s abortion ban.
Blocked in her attempts to seek an illegal termination, the girl’s future seems to be in everyone’s hands but hers, until help comes from an unexpected quarter.
“Brazilian director Lillah Halla opposes the conservatism gnawing at her country with a queer and rallying vision,” Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen said in a video statement unveiling the line-up.
Halla’s short Menarca played in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2020 and Power Alley was developed with the support of the Critics’ Week Next Step initiative aimed at helping filmmakers who showed shorts in the section to move on to their first feature.
From South Korea, former Bong Joon-Ho assistant Jason Yu unveils his first film Sleep (Jam). Parasite star Lee Sun-kyun star and Jung Yu-mi (Train To Busan) play newlyweds whose lives descend into horror as a result of the husband’s strange behavior while sleeping.
“Three chapters, two protagonists, a baby crying,