The Cannes Critics’ Week 2025 choice boasts Greatest Image winner Sean Baker‘s newest undertaking.
Baker collaborates as soon as extra together with his “Take Out” co-director and co-writer Shih-Ching Tsou, who makes her directorial debut with “Left-Handed Woman.” Tsou additionally produced Baker’s “Tangerine” (which she starred in) and “The Florida Venture,” and executive-produced “Starlet.” Now, “Left-Handed Woman” incorporates Baker’s social-realist method with the Taipei-set tragicomedy “Left-Handed Woman,” which follows a single mom and her two daughters constructing a brand new life within the Taiwanese capital. Baker cowrites, edits, and produces the movie.
“The movie was edited by Sean. It’s true that there’s a connection, I’m not going to cover it, and I don’t assume Shih-Ching Tsou will both,” Cannes Critics’ Week creative director Ava Cahen informed Deadline. “It’s a bit harking back to ‘Tangerine’ and ‘The Florida Venture,’ for the best way it captures actuality, with a type of marvel, or at the least a want for the fabulous. The enhancing of the movie is outstanding, the path could be very highly effective, and above all, this movie has a frenetic tempo, a loopy tempo.”
Baker lately received Greatest Modifying, Greatest Image, Greatest Authentic Screenplay, and Greatest Director for “Anora.” The movie moreover landed lead star Mikey Madison Greatest Actress.
“Left-Handed Woman” could also be one of many buzziest movies debuting throughout the Cannes Critics’ Week 2025, however the sidebar will open with Belgian director Laura Wandel’s (“Playground”) youngster custody drama “Adam’s Curiosity.” The Critics’ Week will later shut with Japanese director Momoko Seto’s animated function debut “Dandelion’s Odyssey”; this would be the first animated function to display screen within the part since Jérémy Clapin’s Grand Prize winner “I Misplaced My Physique” in 2019.
Greater than 1,000 movies have been submitted for Cannes Critics’ Week 2025. The version will run Might 14-22. This yr’s jury is presided over by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, alongside Oscar-winning British actor Daniel Kaluuya, Moroccan movie critic Jihane Bougrine, French-Canadian cinematographer Josée Deshaies, and Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara.
Try the total listing of movies beneath.
Competitors
“Sleepless Metropolis” (“Ciudad Sin Sueño”)
Dir. Guillermo Galoe
Spain, France
“Imago”
Dir. Déni Oumar Pitsaev
France, Belgium
“Kika”
Dir. Alexe Poukine
Belgium, France
“Left-Handed Woman”
Dir. Shih-Ching Tsou
Taiwan, France, U.S., U.Ok.
“Nino”
Dir. Pauline Loquès
France
“A Helpful Ghost” (“Pee Chai Dai Ka”)
Dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Thailand, France, Germany
“Reedland” (“Rietland)
Dir. Sven Bresser
Netherlands, Belgium
Particular Screenings
“Adam’s Curiosity” (L’intérêt d’Adam) – OPENING FILM
Dir. Laura Wandel
Belgium, France
“Baise en ville”
Dir. Martin Jauvat
France
“Love Letters” (“Des preuves d’amour”)
Dir. Alice Douard
France
“Dandelion’s Odyssey” (“Planètes”) CLOSING FILM
Dir. Momoko Seto
France, Belgium