Critics’ Week 2026: Marine Atlan’s ‘La Gradiva,’ Aina Clotet’s ‘Viva’ Take Top Awards
- French director Marine Atlan's La Gradiva won the AMI Paris Grand Prize at the 65th Cannes Critics' Week, while Spanish actor-director Aina Clotet received the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for her debut film Viva.
- Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia presided over this year's jury, which evaluated 11 features selected from more than 1,050 submissions for the festival's 65th edition dedicated to emerging filmmakers.
- Chinese director Zou Jing's A Girl Unknown secured the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution, and the SACD Award went to Blerta Basholli and Nicole Borgeat for their Kosovo-set drama Dua.
- The Sony Discovery Prize for Short Film honored Romain F. Dubois for Skinny Boots, while the Canal+ Award for Short Film recognized Berthold Wahju's Vaterland.
- Dedicated to first and second features, the competition showcased global talent spanning Europe, Mexico, Asia, and the Middle East, reflecting diverse narratives from emerging international directors.
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‘La Gradiva’ Review: Cannes Critics’ Week Winner Is a Wholly Transporting Story of Youth
Cinematographer Marine Atlan’s feature film directorial debut “La Gradiva” takes a simple premise — teenagers on a class trip — and uses it to explore the vast worlds of their individual interiority with insight, empathy, and grace. Mercifully free of typical high school movie tropes, the teenagers at the heart of Atlan’s film are fully realized people, whose fears and desires and ambitions and loneliness and dreams, as well as the intensity of …
Aina Clotet, a Catalan actress and director, has been recognized this Wednesday with the revelation award of Critique Week — one of the competitions held in parallel to the Cannes festival dedicated to discovering new voices from film— by Viva, her first film as director, after the success of her television series This is not Sweden. “Thank you for believing in our film and for opening the doors to the world,” she said after coming on stage with…
Critics’ Week 2026: Marine Atlan’s ‘La Gradiva,’ Aina Clotet’s ‘Viva’ Take Top Awards
Marine Atlan’s “La Gradiva” claimed the top honor at the 65th edition of Critics Week, winning the Ami Paris Grand Prize, while Aina Clotet’s “Alive” won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award. The section, which is curated by Ava Cahen and runs parallel to the Official Selection, is dedicated to first and second films. […]
Barcelona's actress and director Aina Clotet has won this Wednesday the revelation prize of Critics Week, the parallel section of the Cannes Festival dedicated to the discovery of new voices, for its performance in Viva, which is also her debut after the camera as director.Continue reading...
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