One of the standout debuts hidden within the 2026 Cannes Film Festival emerged from the Critics' Week (Semaine de la Cri
One of the standout debuts hidden within the 2026 Cannes Film Festival emerged from the Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique) sidebar: Chinese director Zou Jing's film titled A Girl Unknown. It chronicles the life of Wang Juan (starring Cao Ruofan), tracing her journey from a rural childhood to city adulthood as she is shuffled through three different foster families. In her masterful debut, Zou tackles the profoundly painful legacy of China's demographic policies—a policy that left deep interg