The identity of the ten short films (selected from among the 3,184 submitted) that will be vying for the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival (12-23 May) and the 19 graduate films in the Cinef selection (comprising 14 fictions and five animations) has just been unveiled. They are as follows:

Short-film Competition

The Last Spring - Mathilde Bédouet (France)
Fresh Cut - Hadrien Bels (France)
Sisters’ Swim - Lola Degove (France/Belgium)
The End - Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Sweden/France/Denmark)
For the Opponents - Federico Luis (Chile/Mexico/France)
Thunder Platoon - Theo Montoya (Colombia/France)
The Dream Is a Snail - Thien An Nguyen (Vietnam/South Korea)
A Few Things Happening by a River - Daniel Soares (Portugal/France)
Spiritus Sanctus - Michal Toczek (Poland)
Nobody Said Anything - Tamara Todorović (Serbia/France/Slovenia/Croatia)

Cinef selection

Laser-Cat - Lucas Acher (NYU - USA)
Photograph of an Insane Woman to Show the Condition of Her Hair - Arwen Aznag (LUCA School of Arts Brussels – Belgium)
Me, You and the Cow - Aina Callejón (ESCAC – Spain)
Pickled - Fanny Capu (NFTS - UK)
Bird Rhapsody - Wonjung Choi (Hongik University – South Korea)
Always Wanted to be God, Never Wanted to be Good - Noa Epars, Marvin Merkel (HEAD – Switzerland)
Over the Threshold - Tara Gajović (FDU – Serbia)
Growing Stones, Flying Papers - Roozbeh Gezerseh, Soraya Shamsi (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf – Germany)
Sunday’s Children - Reuben Hamlyn (NYU - USA)
Somewhere I Belong - Youssef Handouse (ISAMM – Tunisia)
Silent Voices - Nadine Misong Jin (Columbia University - USA)
Axles - Jakub Krzyszpin (The Polish National Film School in Łódź - Poland)
Never Enough - Julius Lagoutte Larsen (La Fémis – France)
Our Secrets - Lenti Liang (USC Cinematic Arts - USA)
Shadows of the Moonless Nights - Mehar Malhotra (FTII – India)
28 Days Left - Yasmin Najjar (Aalto University - Finland)
Left Behind, Still Standing - Vida Skerk (NFTS - UK)
Where Fireflies Sparkle - Clara Vieira (ESTC – Portugal)
Will It Rain Again Today - Wong Chau-Hong (Nihon University College of Art – Japan)