The Jury of the 61st International Critics’ Week delivered its verdict on Wednesday 25 May. The Colombian film La Jauría by Andrés Ramírez Pulido is the big winner. Aftersun by Charlotte Wells, starring Paul Mescal, also won an award.
End clap for the 61st International Critics’ Week and first winners of this 75th Cannes Film Festival. The Jury was chaired by Kaouther Ben Hania, accompanied by actress Ariane Labed, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, producer María Zamora and journalist-programmer Huh Moon yung, General Delegate of the Busan Festival in South Korea.
The big winner of this edition is La Jauría de Andrés Ramírez Pulido, who also receives the SACD prize. The story follows Eliú, a country boy, incarcerated in an experimental center for minors in the heart of the Colombian rainforest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers do strenuous manual labor and undergo intense group therapy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same center and brings back with him a past from which Eliú tries to move away.
Also on the list, Aftersun by Charlotte Wells, won the new prize created this year, the French Touch Jury Prize.
The complete list of the International Critics’ Week 2022
The Jauría by Andrés Ramirez Pulido
- French Touch Jury Prize
Aftersun by Charlotte Wells
- Louis Roederer Foundation Prize for Revelation
Zelda Samson for Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot
- Leitz Cine Discovery Award for Short Film
Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez
- Gan Foundation Prize for Broadcasting
Urban Distribution, French distributor for Metsurin tarina (The Woodcutter Story) by Mikko Myllylahti
Andrés Ramírez Pulido, author of La Jauría
- Canal+ Short Film Prize
Στον Θρονο Του Ξερξη (On the throne of Xerxes) by Evi Kalogiropoulou