While tomorrow is the big daddy of announcements for the fall film festival season, this morning, we learn the identity of the nine feature films that will populate the Settimana Internazionale della Critica section which, much like the Critics’ Week at the Cannes is dedicated to features from first-time filmmakers. In the seven competition film items we have the likes of Bernhard Wenger, Alexandra Simpson and Muhammed Hamdy, while the opening and closing films were items we’ve been tracking for some time now. Planète B. by French filmmaker Aude Léa Rapin is the only sophomore feature in the section — production took place in March of last year with the likes of Adele Exarchopoulos, Souheila Yacoub and India Hair.… Read the rest
