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.
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