At the helm for ten years of this selection which seeks to highlight the first or second works of filmmakers from around the world, the current director, Charles Tesson, 66, will hand over after the next edition (July 7 to 15).
Ava Cahen, born in 1986, is "the youngest coach in the history of Critics' Week," a statement said.
She had joined the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, which organizes the event, in 2016, and since worked with Mr. Tesson on the "feature film committee".
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A television columnist in
Le Cercle
sur Canal +, the 30-something also works for France Inter (“Une hour en série”), and is co-editor-in-chief of a cinema review,
FrenchMania
, which she founded in 2017. She is also university and teacher at Paris X-Nanterre.
She is the author of essays on cinema and series, particularly passionate about the work of New York filmmaker Woody Allen.
A journalist and director, Claire Clouzot, had already held the post of director of the Semaine de la critique, between 2002 and 2004.
