And last but not least, the Cannes Film Festival has announced the eleven shorts competing for the Palme d’Or.
Selected from just over 4400 submitted shorts and representing countries such as Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Kosovo, Lithuania, Portugal and the United States, I can attest that there’ll be some masterworks in the short form here in the festival’s selection of eleven. Among the set we find Kosovo helmer Samir Karahoda returning to the short comp after appearing in the section back in 2021. We have Brazilian André Hayato Saito and NYC-based commercials and shorts director Daniel Soares (see pic below) in the mix. They and the 18 films selected for the La Cinef (basically short film comp from students) will be judged by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Paolo Moretti, Claudine Nougaret, Vladimir Perišić and Lubna Azabal. Here are the lucky filmmakers:
VOLCELEST – Éric Briche / France – 15′
OOTIDĖ (Ootid) – Razumaitė Eglė / Lithuania – 9′
SANKI YOXSAN – Azer Guliev / Azerbaijan, France – 15′
LES BELLES CICATRICES – Raphaël Jouzeau / France – 15′
RRUGËS (On The Way) – Samir Karahoda / Kosovo – 15′
ACROSS THE WATERS – Viv Li / China – 15′
PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS – Alison McAlpine / Canada – 15′
TEA – Blake Rice / United States – 12′
AMARELA (Yellow) – André Hayato Saito / Brazil – 15′
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT – Nebojša Slijepčević / Croatia, France – 13′
BAD FOR A MOMENT (Mau Por Um Momento) – Daniel Soares / Portugal – 15′
LA CINEF SELECTION
CROW MAN – Yohann Abdelnour / ALBA – Lebanon – 8′
BANISHED LOVE – Xiwen Cong / Beijing Film Academy – China – 40′
PRAEIS (IT’LL PASS) – Dovydas Drakšas / London Film School – United Kingdom – 27′
ECHOES – Robinson Drossos / ENSAD – France – 7′
MAUVAIS COTON (US AND THEM) – Nicolas Dumaret / La Fémis – France – 20′
TERMINAL – East Elliott / NYU – United States of America – 18′
ELEVACIÓN – Gabriel Esdras / Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico – 28′
IN SPIRITO – Nicolò Folin / Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Italy – 14′
THE DEER’S TOOTH – Saif Hammash / Dar Al-Kalima University – Palestine – 16′
PLEVEL (WEEDS) – Pola Kazak / FAMO – Czech Republic – 14′
THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND – Nikos Kolioukos / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Greece – 33′
FOREST OF ECHOES – Yoori Lim / Korea National University of Arts – South Korea – 22′
BUNNYHOOD – Mansi Maheshwari / NFTS – United Kingdom – 9′
SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW… – Chidananda S Naik / FTII, Pune – India – 16′
WITHERED BLOSSOMS – Lionel Seah / AFTRS – Australia – 14′
OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL – Asya Segalovich / Columbia University – United States of America – 22′
THREE – Amie Song / Columbia University – United States of America – 15′
IT’S NOT TIME FOR POP – Amit Vaknin / Tel Aviv University – Israel – 14′
