The identities of the nine short films that are set to duke it out for the Palme d’Or at the 75^th Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May) and the 16 movies from film schools in the Cinéfondation selection (rechristened “Cinef”, and which includes 13 fictions and three animations helmed by six male and ten female directors) have just been unveiled.

Short-film Competition

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Tsutsue – Amartei Armar (Ghana/France)
A Short Story – Bi Gan (China)
Melancholy of My Mother's Lullabies – Abinash Bikram Shah (Nepal/Hong Kong)
The Water Murmurs – Story Chen (China)
Cherries – Vytautas Katkus (Lithuania/Italy)
Same Old - Lloyd Lee Choi (USA)
Fire at the Lake – Pierre Menahem (France)
Persona – Sujin Moon (South Korea)
Night Light – Kim Torres (Costa Rica/Mexico)

La Cinef selection

Liquid Bread - Alica Bednáriková  - FTF VŠMU-Film and Television Faculty (Slovakia)
Mumlife – Ruby Challenger – AFTRS (Australia)
All of This Belongs to You – Lilian Fanara – La Fémis (France)
Humans Are Dumber When Crammed up Together – Laurène Fernandez – La CinéFabrique (France)
A Conspiracy Man – Valerio Ferrara – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Italy)
The Pass – Pepi Ginsberg - NYU (USA)
Kinship – Orin Kadoori - The Steve Tisch School of Film & Television, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Nauha – Pratham Khurana – Whistling Woods International (India)
We Are Not There Tomorrow – Olga Kłyszewicz – The Polish National Film School in Lódz (Poland)
Somewhere – Li Jiahe – Hebei University of Science and Technology School of Film and Television (China)
The Silent Whistle – Li Yingtong – Emerson College (USA)
Mistida – Falcão Nhaga - ESTC (Portugal)
Glorious Revolution – Masha Novikova – London Film School (UK)
That's Amore – Malthe Saxer – Den Danske Filmskole (Denmark)
Craze – Bianka Szelestey – Eötvös Loránd University Department of Film Studies (Hungary)
Spring Roll Dream – Mai Vu – NFTS (UK)