Cannes announces the short films vying for the Palme d’Or
- 11 films will take part in the short-film competition on the Croisette in May, while the Cinef selection comprises 16 titles
The identities of the 11 short films, representing 12 countries, which will be duking it out for the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival (16-27 May) and the 16 titles from film schools in the Cinef selection (including 14 fictions and two animations helmed by ten female directors and seven male ones), which hail from 13 territories, have just been unveiled. As previously announced, the jury will be chaired by Ildikó Enyedi (see the news).
The selection is as follows:
Short-film Competition
La perra – Carla Melo Gampert (Colombia/France)
As It Was – Anastasia Solonevych, Damian Kocur (Poland/Ukraine)
Tits – Eivind Landsvik (Norway)
27 – Flóra Anna Buda (Hungary/France)
Le sexe de ma mère – Francis Canitrot (France)
Aunque es de noche – Guillermo García López (Spain/France)
Basri & Salma in a Never-ending Comedy – Khozy Rizal (Indonesia)
Poof – Margaret Miller (USA)
Nada de todo esto – Patricio Martínez, Francisco Canton (Argentina/Spain)
Wild Summon – Karni Arieli, Saul Freed (UK)
Fár – Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter (Iceland)
Cinef selection
Daroone Poust – Shafagh Abosaba, Maryam Mahdiye, Karnameh Film School (Iran)
Killing Boris Johnson – Musa Alderson-Clarke, NFTS (UK)
Nehemich – Yudhajit Basu, FTII (India)
Imogene – Katie Blair, Columbia University (USA)
Al Toraa’ – Jad Chahine, High Cinema Institute (Egypt)
A Bright Sunny Day – Yupeng He, Columbia University (USA)
Hole – Hwang Hyein, KAFA (South Korea)
La voix des autres – Fatima Kaci, La Fémis (France)
Electra – Daria Kashcheeva, FAMU (Czech Republic)
Trenc d’alba – Anna Llargués, ESCAC (Spain)
Norwegian Offspring – Marlene Emilie Lyngstad, Den Danske Filmskole (Denmark)
Osmy den – Petr Pylypčuk, FAMU (Czech Republic)
The Lee Families – Seo Jeong-mi, Korea National University of Arts (South Korea)
Solos – Pedro Vargas, FAAP (Brazil)
Ayyur – Zineb Wakrim, ÉSAV Marrakech (Morocco)
Uhrmenschen – Yu Hao, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany)
(Translated from French)
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