Cannes 2012 Short Film and Cinefondation Selections

No better way to showcase the selections in both the Short Film Comp and Cinefondation than to announce the lucky few prior to the big announcement this coming Thursday. Head jury member Jean-Pierre Dardenne will have the pleasure to visit different parts of the globe in a relatively minuet time span – and you’d find that there are likely some future gem filmmakers in this year’s batch as previous names rolling back about a decade’s worth of selections include (in the Cinefondation) the likes of Aida Begic, Catalin Mitulescu, Annemarie Jacir, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Kornél Mundruczo, Corneliu Porumboiu, Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas and Nadav Lapid, while in the Official Competition you’d find shorts from actresses Rie Rasmussen and Melanie Laurent, Jens Len, Alice Winocour, Pablo Aguero, Marco Van Geffen, Antonio Campos (also a Cinefondation fellow), Sam Taylor-Wood and Marian Crisan. Last year the Short Film Comp gave us a deserving winner of the Palme d’Or in Maryna Vroda’s Cross and the audience-pleaser Bear from Nash Edgerton. Here are those selected in the official selection followed by the Cinefondation seelctions.

Alvaro APONTE-CENTENO
MI SANTA MIRADA    
Puerto Rico

Eicke BETTINGA
GASP
(SOUFFLE)
Germany

Mohamed BOUROKBA
CE CHEMIN DEVANT MOI             
France

Bassam CHEKHES
FALASTEIN, SANDOUK  AL INTEZAR
LIL BURTUQAL
(WAITING FOR P.O BOX)
Syria

Grainger DAVID
THE CHAIR
United States

Zia MANDIVWALLA
NIGHT SHIFT   
New-Zealand

Chloé ROBICHAUD
CHEF DE MEUTE  
Canada

Michael SPICCIA
YARDBIRD   
Australia

Emilie VERHAMME
COCKAIGNE
Belgium

L.Rezan YESILBAS
SESSIZ-BE DENG
(SILENT)
Turkey
The Cinéfondation Selection:

Pascale ABOU JAMRA
DERRIÈRE MOI LES OLIVIERS
(Behind Me Olive Trees)
ALBA
Liban / Lebanon

Shoichi AKINO
RIYOUSHI
(The Barber)
Tokyo University of the Arts
Japon / Japan

Arthur CAHN
LES RAVISSEMENTS
(The Raptures)
La fémis
France

Morten HELGELAND
SLUG INVASION
The Animation Workshop
Danemark / Denmark

Michal HOGENAUER
TAMBYLLES
FAMU
République Tchèque / Czech Republic

Leni HUYGHE
MATTEUS
Sint-Lukas Brussels
Belgique / Belgium

Cristi IFTIME
TABĂRA DIN RĂZOARE
(The Camp in Razoare)
UNATC
Roumanie / Romania

Taisia IGUMENTSEVA
DOROGA NA
(The Road to)
VGIK
Russie / Russia

Piero MESSINA
TERRA
(Land)
CSC
Italie / Italy

Miguel Angel MOULET
LOS ANFITRIONES
(The Hosts)
EICTV
Cuba

Meryl O’CONNOR
THE BALLAD OF FINN + YETI
UCLA
États-Unis / USA

Timothy RECKART
HEAD OVER HEELS
NFTS
Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom

Matthew James REILLY
ABIGAIL
NYU
États-Unis / USA

Eti TSICKO
RESEN
(Dog Leash)
TAU
Israël / Israel

Eduardo WILLIAMS
PUDE VER UN PUMA
(Could See a Puma)
UCINE
Argentine / Argentina