Cannes Critics’ Week 2025 selection has the best picture winner Sean BakerLatest project.
Baker collaborates once again with his “Take Out” co-director and co-author Shih-cheing Tsou, who debuts with “”Left girl. “Tsou also produced Baker’s” Tangerine “(in which she played) and” The Florida Project “and executive produced” Starlet. “Now” Left-Hand Girl “Baker’s social-realistic approach with Taipei’s set tragicomedy. film.
“The movie was edited by Sean. It’s true that there is a connection, I won’t hide it, and I don’t think Shih-Cheding Tsou will either Deadline. “It reminds a bit of ‘Tangerine’ and ‘The Florida project’, for how it captures reality, with a form of wonder, or at least a desire for the amazing. The editing of the film is exceptional, the direction is very powerful, and above all this movie has a frenetic pace, a crazy pace.”
Baker Recently won the best editingBest picture, best original script and best director for “Anora.” The film also landed main star Mikey Madison’s best actress.
“Left -hand girl” can be one of Buzziest movies Debuts during Cannes Critics’ Week 2025, but the sidebar will open with Belgian director Laura Wandels (“Playground”) child care drama “Adam’s interest.” The Critics Week will later close with Japanese director Momoko Seto’s animated feature debut “Dandelions Odyssey”; This will be the first animated feature as a screen in the section since Jérémy Clapin’s big prize winner “in Lost My Body” 2019.
More than 1,000 movies were submitted for Cannes Critics’ Week 2025. The edition will run May 14-22. This year’s jury is chairman of Rodrigo Sorogoyen, along with Oscar-winning British actor Daniel Kaluuya, Moroccan film critic Jihane Bougine, French-Canadian cinematographer Josée Deshaies and Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara.
Check out the full list of movies below.
Competition
“Sleopress City” (“City Without Sleep”)
Dir. Guillermo Galoe
Spain, France
“Imago”
Dir. Deni Oumar Pitsaev
France, Belgium
“Reading”
Dir. Alex Poukine
Belgium, France
“Left -hand girl”
Dir. Shih-cheing tsou
Taiwan, France, USA, Britain
“Nino”
Dir. Pauline Loquès
France
“A Uzeful Ghost” (Pee Chai Dai Kai Ka
Dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Thailand, France, Germany
“Reedland” (“Rietland)
Dir. Sven Bresser
The Netherlands, Belgium
Special views
“Adam’s interest” (Adam’s interest) – Opening film
Dir. Laura Change
Belgium, France
“Fucking in town”
Dir. Martin Jauvat
France
“Love Letters” (“Love Proofs”)
You. Alice Dourage
France
“Dandelion’s Odyssey” (“Planets”) Closing film
Dir. Momoko Seto
France, Belgium
