{"id":662622,"date":"2025-04-14T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sean-baker-produced-left-handed-girl-leads-cannes-critics-week-lineup\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:45:18","slug":"sean-baker-produced-left-handed-girl-leads-cannes-critics-week-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sean-baker-produced-left-handed-girl-leads-cannes-critics-week-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Baker-Produced \u2018Left-Handed Girl\u2019 Leads Cannes Critics\u2019 Week Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe Cannes Critics\u2019 Week, the festival sidebar focusing on directors\u2019 first and second features, unveiled its 2025 lineup Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tCompetition highlights include Left-Handed Girl<\/em>, the solo directorial debut of Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou, known for her long-standing collaboration with Anora<\/em> director Sean Baker (Tsou co-directed 2004\u2019s Take Out<\/em> and was a producer on Baker\u2019s Tangerine<\/em>, The Florida Project<\/em> and Red Rocket<\/em>). Baker co-wrote and edited the Taipei-set urban melodrama, which centers on a single mother and her two daughters navigating life on the margins of the Taiwanese capital.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso debuting in Critics\u2019 Week is Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke with A Useful Ghost<\/em>, a surrealist take on motherhood in which a woman reincarnates as a vacuum cleaner. Thai actress Mai Davika Hoorne leads the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tEuropean features in competition include Pauline Loqu\u00e8s\u2019 Nino<\/em>, starring fast-rising Quebecois actor Th\u00e9odore Pellerin (Lurker<\/em>) as a young man adrift in the city after losing his apartment keys; Sleepless City<\/em> from Spanish director Guillermo Galoe, which follows two close friends facing separation when one is forced to move away; and Kika<\/em> from Belgian filmmaker Alexe Poukine, starring Manon Clavel as a social<\/a> worker confronting an unplanned pregnancy shortly after her partner\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\n\tChechen filmmaker Deni Oumar Pitsaev will present Imago<\/em>, an autobiographical documentary chronicling his attempt to construct a modernist home on traditional land in a Georgian valley near the Chechnya border. From the Netherlands, Sven Bresser\u2019s debut feature Reedland<\/em> follows a reed cutter whose discovery of a teenage girl\u2019s body triggers a haunting obsession.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelgian director Laura Wandel will open the 64th Cannes Critics\u2019 Week, out of competition in a special screening, with her child custody drama\u00a0Adam\u2019s Interest<\/em>. Closing the section, also out of competition, is Dandelion\u2019s Odyssey<\/em>, the first animated features from Japanese director Momoko Seto, which follows the journey of four dandelions which survive a nuclear explosion and seek a place to take root. French features Baise en Ville<\/em>, from director Martin Jauvat, billed as a \u201cwalking road\u2013movie\u201d about an unemployed young man, played by Jauvat, who ambles around the city looking for a job to pay for driving lessons; and Alice Douard\u2019s debut feature Love Letters<\/em>, a dramatic comedy about two married women awaiting their first child \u2014 will also screen out of competition.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts<\/em>) heads up the jury for the 64th edition of Critics\u2019 Week, joined by Oscar-winning\u00a0British actor Daniel Kaluuya\u00a0(Get Out<\/em>,\u00a0Judas and the Black Messiah<\/em>), Moroccan journalist Jihane Bougrine, French-Canadian cinematographer Jos\u00e9e Deshaies (Passages<\/em>,\u00a0The Beast<\/em>) and Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara (Tiger Strip<\/a>es<\/em>,\u00a0Autobiography<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\n\tCritics\u2019 Week (La Semaine de la Critique), runs May 14-22, alongside the main\u00a0Cannes Film Festival. The section, organized by the French film critics\u2019 union, is famed as a spot to find up-and-coming talent. Many of the biggest names in\u00a0international\u00a0art house cinema got their start in the sidebar.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo-time Palme d\u2019Or winner Ken Loach brought his feature debut\u00a0Kes<\/em>\u00a0to Critics\u2019 Week in 1970. Justine Triet, winner of the Palme d\u2019Or with Anatomy of a Fall<\/em> in 2023, made her festival premiere at Critics\u2019 Week with her second feature,\u00a0Victoria<\/em>, in 2013. Julia Ducournau debuted in the section with her first film,\u00a0Raw<\/em>, in 2016. Ducournau\u2019s follow-up,\u00a0Titane<\/em>, won the Palme d\u2019Or in 2021 and her third film, Alpha<\/em> will premiere in the festival\u2019s main competition this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the Critics\u2019 Week lineup below.<\/p>\n

\n\tCOMPETITION<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tImago<\/em>, Dir. D\u00e9ni Oumar Pitsaev<\/p>\n

\n\tKika<\/em>, Dir. Alexe Poukine<\/p>\n

\n\tLeft-Handed Girl<\/em>, Dir. Shih-Ching Tsou<\/p>\n

\n\tNino<\/em>, Dir. Pauline Loqu\u00e8s<\/p>\n

\n\tReedland<\/em>, Dir. Sven Bresser<\/p>\n

\n\tSleepless City<\/em>, Dir. Guillermo Galoe<\/p>\n

\n\tA Useful Ghost<\/em>, Dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke<\/p>\n

\n\tSPECIAL SCREENINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAdam\u2019s Interest<\/em>, Dir. Laura Wandel OPENING FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBaise en ville<\/em>, Dir. Martin Jauvat<\/p>\n

\n\tLove Letters<\/em>, Dir. Alice Douard<\/p>\n

\n\tDandelion\u2019s Odyssey<\/em>, Dir. Momoko Seto CLOSING FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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