"Our prize-winner is an unusually resourceful feature debut characterized by a beguiling confluence of formal invention and thematic density. Its tension burgeons slowly and insistently as it draws us into a busy environment where everything feels utterly familiar, yet is simultaneously punctured with deep unease. The film is a portrait of the sort of painful, irresolvable fissure that afflicts many or perhaps most families, and yet it leaves us, ultimately, with a feeling of love and compassion for every one of its many characters. For all these reasons we, members of the FIPRESCI jury, award the International Critics Prize to Krisha, written and directed by Trey Edward Shults."
