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French film critic Ava Cahen has been named the new artistic director of Cannes Critics’ Week.
She replaces the respected film and academic critic Charles Tesson who will retire after this 60th edition after 10 years at the helm.
Under the Critics’ Week rules, an artistic director can serve a maximum of three three-year terms. Shard was given an additional edition to oversee the 60th anniversary.
Cahen will assume the role on August 1, after serving on the Critics’ Week feature film committee for five years.
At 35, she is the youngest to be named artistic director of Critics’ Week. She is the second woman to hold this position after Claire Clouzot who held the position from 2002 to 2004.
Cahen is known to have founded the magazine Clap! in 2014 and the FrenchMania cinema site in 2017, alongside its long-time collaborator Franck Finance-Madureira.
She was included in the Screens 2019 selection of Future Leaders of Programmers and Curators to Watch.
Cahen has been a contributor to the Canal + show Le Cercle Cinma since 2014 and the radio show Une Heure En Série since 2019. She has also worked for the Queer Palm Awards in Cannes and has published several books on film and television. In addition, Cahen has been a lecturer at the University of Nanterre for seven years.
This year, Critics’ Week will feature 13 titles, including seven in competition, as well as 10 short films and follows a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic. Robust, the first feature film by French director Constance Meyers, starring Grard Depardieu and Dborah Lukumuena, will open the section on July 7. It will continue until July 15.
Critics’ Week was created in 1962 to focus on first and second feature films and shorts by emerging talent. The section screened the first works of directors such as Jacques Audiard, Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, Ken Loach, François Ozon, Julia Ducournau and Rebecca Zlotowski during its six decades of history.
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