Cannes 2024: France’s Film Critics Union, runs May 15-23.
Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Stockholm, The Realm, Madre, The Beasts) is jury president of this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week.
The festival sidebar is run by the French film critics’ union that focuses on first and second features from up-and-coming directors.
In a social media clip shared on Friday, Sorogoyen called the jury duty “a great responsibility.”
Originally set up by an association of French film critics in 1962, Critics’ Week is the oldest non-official Cannes sidebar.
The section is credited with discovering some of the biggest names in independent and arthouse cinema, from Ken Loach and Alejandro González Iñárritu to Andrea Arnold and Justine Triet.
The Critics’ Week jury awards prizes for best film, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for best actor or actress, and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for best short film in the selection.
The 63rd edition of Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) runs May 15-23.
