Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step Residency Program Unveils Participants for 10th Edition (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Next Step, a program organized by Cannes Critics’ Week whose recent alumni include Molly Manning Walker (“How to Have Sex”), has unveiled the participants of its milestone 10th edition.
Spearheaded by Thomas Rosso, a producer turned artistic director, the workshop selects emerging directors who have had their short films play at Cannes’ parallel section, Critics’ Week, and helps to develop their feature debuts.
Over the last decade, Next Step has supported the development of 88 projects, 29 of which have been completed and 13 of which will shoot in 2024.
The filmmakers selected to take part in this edition include Anton Bialas, a French-Swedish filmmaker (“Manta Ray”) developing “Femminielli,” about a baroque nightclub in Paris; Spain’s Irati Gorostidi (“Contadores”) with “Anekumen,” a drama set in 1978 at the end of Franco’s regime in Spain; Swiss helmer Jela Hasler with “To Put Out One Fire,” about a young and idealistic urbanist working in Zurich; France’s Nans Laborde-Jourdàa (“Bolero”) with “Nous brulons,” which tells eight different stories revolving around an addiction to love; and Egypt’s Morad Mostafa (“I Promise You Paradise”) with “Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore,” which follows a Somali woman caught in the middle of violent tensions between Egyptians and various African nationalities.
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