Festival de Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week ended with a win for ‘La Jauria’

Cannes‘ Critics’ Week, which is dedicated to first and second feature films, awarded Andrés Ramirez Pulido’s “La Jauria” the Grand Prize. This Colombian film won the SACD award, too.
The story is centered on Eliú, a country boy who has been imprisoned for a crime he did with his friend El Mono. The crime occurred in an experimental minors’ center in the heart of Colombia’s tropical forest.
“Aftersun” by Charlotte Wells, starring Paul Mescal, also won the French Touch Jury Prize. It shows a father and daughter spending a summer vacation in a resort where people dance the Macarena. Meanwhile, The Louis Roederer Foundation awarded Zelda Samson the Rising Star Award for Emmanuelle Nicot’s “Love According To Dalva.” The movie focuses on a 12-year-old girl who grows up in foster care alongside social workers and other children.
This year’s winner of the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film is João Gonzalez’s “Ice Merchants” and “The Woodcutter Story”, directed by Mikko Myllylahti, received the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution. Evi Kalogiropoulou also won the Canal+ Award for Short Film “On Xerxes’ Throne”.
Tunisian film director Kaouther Ben Hania presided over the jury this year. Her film “The Man Who Sold His Skin” had played at Venice in 2020 and it was the first Tunisian movie to have received an Oscar nomination.