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02/01/2024 - The general co-ordinator of Cannes' Critics’ Week offers an overview of the dynamic Next Step line-up, which has just celebrated its 10th edition
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Next Step enters its 7th year courtesy of Cannesâ Criticsâ Week
The ten participants in the seventh session of Next Step
For the seventh consecutive year, and despite the cancellation of Cannesâ 2020 edition, the Criticsâ Week team overseen by
Charles Tesson has once again rolled out its Next Step initiative, aimed at helping young filmmakers (who have previously been selected to compete in Cannesâ parallel section) make the leap from short to full-length films. The programme notably includes a workshop (which has just taken place online, as a one-off), but also a competition, the victorious project of which is set to be announced on the Croisette in May (or potentially July, if the rumours on the continuation of health restrictions are anything to go by). Winners of previous editions (which have supported upwards of 50 projects hailing from 29 countries) include
Participants in this year’s Next Step online workshop
UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker has been revealed as one of 10 directors participating in the 2020 digital edition of the Next Step programme of Cannes Critics’ Week with her project
How To Have Sex.
Forestera, Portugal’s Duarte Coimbra with
The Jacaranda Storm, Canada’s Graham Foy with
The Maiden, France’s Naïla Guiguet with
Alyson, Azerbaijan’s Teymur Hajiyev with
Man In A Blue Sweater, Brazil’s Lillah Halla with
Ainda, Belgium’s Jaf & Raf Roosens with
Beats of Love and China’s Qui Yang with
Some Rain Must Fall.