Cannes announce short film and La Cinef selections

Selected from 4,288 films, 11 shorts will be presented this year in Competition, coming from 12 countries: Argentina, Colombia, Spain, the United States, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and Ukraine. The Short Film Palme d’or will be handed by the Jury chaired by Ildikó Enyedi, Saturday, May 27, during the closing ceremony of the 76th Festival de Cannes.

THE SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

LA PERRA (THE BITCH)
Carla Melo Gampert
Colombia & France – 14′

AS IT WAS
Anastasia Solonevych & Damian Kocur
Poland & Ukraine – 15′

TITS
Eivind Landsvik
Norway – 12′

27
Flóra Anna Buda
Hungary & France – 11′

LE SEXE DE MA MÈRE
Francis Canitrot
France – 14′

AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE
Guillermo García López
Spain & France – 14′

BASRI & SALMA IN A NEVER-ENDING COMEDY
Khozy Rizal
Indonesia – 15′

POOF
Margaret Miller
United States – 10′

NADA DE TODO ESTO (NONE OF THESE)
Patricio Martínez & Francisco Canton
Argentina & Spain- 15′

WILD SUMMON
Karni Arieli & Saul Freed
United Kingdom – 14′

FÁR (INTRUSION)
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Iceland – 5′

For its 26th edition, La Cinef selected among 2,000 films submitted by film schools from all around the world, 14 short fictions and 2 animated short films, among which 10 films are directed by women and 7 films by men. 13 countries from 4 continents are represented including Morocco, for the first time in selection. The Jury chaired by Ildikó Enyedi will give out 3 La Cinef awards, during a ceremony that will be followed by the screening of the awarded films, Thursday, May 25, in the Buñuel theatre.

LA CINEF SELECTION

DAROONE POUST (INSIDE THE SKIN)
Shafagh Abosaba & Maryam Mahdiye
Karnameh Film School – Iran – 16′

KILLING BORIS JOHNSON
Musa Alderson-Clarke
NFTS – United Kingdom – 24′

NEHEMICH
Yudhajit Basu
FTII – India – 23′

IMOGENE
Katie Blair
Columbia University – United States – 19′

AL TORAA’ (THE CALL OF THE BROOK)
Jad Chahine
High Cinema Institute – Egypt – 12′

A BRIGHT SUNNY DAY
Yupeng He
Columbia University – United States – 20′

HOLE
Hwang Hyein
KAFA – South Korea – 24′

LA VOIX DES AUTRES (THE VOICE OF OTHERS)
Fatima Kaci
La Fémis – France – 30′

ELECTRA
Daria Kashcheeva
FAMU – Czech Republic – 27′

TRENC D’ALBA (CRACK OF DAWN)
Anna Llargués
ESCAC – Spain – 28′

NORWEGIAN OFFSPRING
Marlene Emilie Lyngstad
Den Danske Filmskole – Denmark – 44′

OSMÝ DEN (EIGHTH DAY)
Petr Pylypčuk
FAMU – Czech Republic – 20′

THE LEE FAMILIES
Seo Jeong-mi
Korea National University of Arts – South Korea – 25′

SOLOS (GROUND)
Pedro Vargas
FAAP – Brazil – 13′

AYYUR (MOON)
Zineb Wakrim
ÉSAV Marrakech – Morocco – 13′

UHRMENSCHEN (PRIMITIVE TIMES)
Yu Hao
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF – Germany – 6′