Eleven feature films, including eight first and three second films along with fifteen short films, have been selected for the 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week. Litigante, the second film by Colombian director Franco Lolli, will open the 58th edition, which will close with the first part of a trilogy, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (Chun jiang shui nuan), the first film from the young Chinese prodigy filmmaker Gu Xiaogang.
With Litigante, Franco Lolli portrays a woman who must deal with difficult and urgent situations in her professional, family and personal life. Much like Maurice Pialat, Franco Lolli ploughs his own furrow, one where formal discipline transcends realistic narrative to reach our innermost selves, the very heart of the strongest, purest feelings, those that only films can convey.
In Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (Chun jiang shui nuan), the fate of a family unfolds according to nature, shifting seasons and the living river. Utterly fluid command of both frame and direction breathes peaceful life into the film, one that celebrates blending our earthly condition and everlasting landscapes.
The President of the jury of this 58th edition is the Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra, the director of Birds of Passage, and along with him, will be the French-British actress Amira Casar, the Danish producer Marianne Slot, the Belgian-Congolese journalist Djia Mambu and the Italian director Jonas Carpignano.
Critics’ Week 2019 (La Semaine de la Critique) will take place in Cannes from May 15th to May 23rd.
58th Cannes Critics’ Week
COMPETITION
FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION
Abou Leila
Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Ceniza Negra (Land of Ashes)
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur (A White, White Day)
Hlynur Pálmason
J’ai perdu mon corps (I Lost My Body)
Jérémy Clapin
Nuestras Madres (Our Mothers)
César Díaz
The Unknown Saint (Le Miracle du Saint Inconnu)
Alaa Eddine Aljem
Vivarium
Lorcan Finnegan
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
Dia de festa (Party Day)
Sofia Bost
Fakh (The Trap)
Nada Riyadh
Ikki illa meint
Andrias Høgenni
Journey Through a Body
Camille Degeye
(Kolektyvinai sodai (Community Gardens)
Vytautas Katkus
Lucía en el limbo
Valentina Maurel
The Manila Lover
Johanna Pyykkö
Mardi de 8 à 18 (Tuesday from 8 to 6)
Cecilia de Arce
She Runs
Qiu Yang
Ultimul Drum Spre Mare (The Last Trip to the Seaside)
Adi Voicu
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
OPENING FILM
Litigante
Franco Lolli
CLOSING FILM
Chun jiang shui nuan (Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains)
Gu Xiaogang
FEATURE FILMS SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Les héros ne meurent jamais (Heroes Don’t Die)
Aude Léa Rapin
Tu mérites un amour (You Deserve a Love)
Hafsia Herzi
SHORT FILMS SPECIAL SCREENING 1
Demonic
Pia Borg
Naptha
Moin Hassain
Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You
Brandon Cronenberg
SHORT FILMS SPECIAL SCREENING 2
Invisível Herói (Invisible Hero)
Cristèle Alves Meira
Tenzo
Katsuya Tomita
INVITATION
MORELIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
El aire Delgado
Pablo Giles
The Girl With Two Heads (La Chica con dos Cabezas)
Betzabé García
San Miguel
Cris Gris
Satán
Carlos Tapia González