05 · 11 · 10 Le Nom Des Gens to inaugurate Critics’ Week Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Clara Sánchez desde Cannes Directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Wong Kar-wai, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Gaspar Noé, François Ozon, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro and Julie Bertuccelli have shown their first or second films at this competitive section. For the past five years, the Critics’ Week Grand Prize, which is 5,000 euros, has been awarded by Cinépolis. Winners of this prize include: · Adieu Gary by Nassim Amaouche (France)· Snow by Aida Begic (Bosnia - Herzegovina, Germany, France and Iran, 2008)· XXY by Lucía Puenzo (Argentina, 2007),· Les Amitiés maléfiques by Emmanuel Bourdieu (France, 2006),· Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July (United States, 2005),· Brodeuses by Éléonore Faucher (France, 2004),· Or (Món tresor) by Keren Yedaya (France-Israel, 2004) From its beginning in 2003, FICM has maintained an important partnership with Critic’s Week. Each year the Festival program includes films shown at Critics’ Week while a selection of the winners of the previous edition of FICM is exhibited at Cannes. This year, the Critics’ Week will present Señora Pájaro (Mrs. Bird) by Véronique Decroux y Julio Bárcenas, Best Short Film FICM 2009, and the feature film Revolución, made up of10 short documentaries by Mexican filmmakers Mariana Chenillo and Amat Escalante, winners FICM 2008; Fernando Eimbcke, Premio Tequila Cuervo FICM 2008; Patricia Riggen, FICM 2005 selection; Gael García Bernal, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá and Carlos Reygadas, whose first or second films were shown at FICM; Diego Luna, who has presented the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival since 2005; and Rodrigo García. Other winning films at FICM that have been shown at Critics’ Week are: · FICM 2004: De Raíz by Carlos Carrera (Best Animated Short Film); El Pasajero by Matías Meyer (Best Fiction Short Film) and Trópico de Cáncer by Eugenio Polgovsky (Best Documentary).· FICM 2005 Toro negro by Pedro González-Rubio and Carlos Armella (Best Documentary) and David by Roberto Fiesco Trejo (Best Fiction Short Film).· FICM 2006 En el cielo como en la tierra by Natalia López (Best Experimental Short Film) and La Palomilla Salvaje by Gustavo Gamou (Best Documentary Short Film).· FICM 2007 Mi Vida Dentro by Lucía Gajá (Best Documentary ) and Peces Plátano by Natalia Beristain Egurrola (Best Short Film).· FICM 2008 La canción de los niños muertos by David Pablos, (Best Fiction Short Film); Jacinta by Karla Castañeda, (Best Animated Short Film); Zoogocho by Bernardo Arellano, (Best Documentary Short Film) and Roma by Elisa Miller, (Premio García Bross) Other Mexican directors who have exhibited their films at Critics’ Week include Fernando Eimbcke, winner of the Premio Tequila Tradicional at the sixth edition of FICM; Rodrigo Plá, official selection at the fifth edition of FICM for La Zona; Gael García Bernal, who presented his first film Déficit at Critics’ Week and the fifth edition of FICM, and also served as ambassador from Mexico at Critics’ Week in 2007; and Gerardo Naranjo, official selection at the fourth edition of FICM with Drama/Mex. Señora Pájaro (Mrs. Bird) tells the story of Lara, a sick little girl who sees life pass by from her balcony. She watches Sole, a woman who has lost the desire to live, on a balcony near by. They strike up a relationship from afar based on silence and glances.
