Summary The May 15-23 Critics' Week runs along alongside the main Cannes Film Festival (May 15-24).
PARIS (AFP) - Organisers of this year s Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday announced its 2014 line-up for the event dedicated to discovering new talent.
With a jury of international journalists headed by director Andrea Arnold of Britain, the May 15-23 Critics Week runs along alongside the main Cannes Film Festival (May 15-24).
Seven feature films on themes ranging from love to the quest for identity will compete to succeed last year s "Salvo" by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza for the honour, delegate general Charles Tesson told AFP.
The prize has provided breakthrough recognition for the likes of Mexico s Guillermo del Toro and his compatriot Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gaspar Noe of Argentina and Jeff Nichols of the United States.
Arnold s "Wasp" won an Oscar for best short film in 2003 she scooped up the two jury prizes in Cannes for her first two feature-length films, "Red Road" (2006) and "Fish Tank" (2009).
Her "Wuthering Heights" was screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.
