04/23/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/23/2024 10:19
Flanked by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Paolo Moretti, Claudine Nougaret and Vladimir Perišić, the Belgian actress Lubna Azabal will award the Short Film Palme d'or and the 3 La Cinef prizes, the Festival de Cannes' selection dedicated to film schools.
The Jury will discover the 11 films in the Short Film Competition and the 18 films in La Cinef selection unveiled today.
LUBNA AZABAL - President
BelgiumActress
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MARIE-CASTILLE MENTION-SCHAAR
FranceDirector, screenwriter, producer
© Guy Ferrandis
PAOLO MORETTI
ItalyFilm programmer
© Angèle Marignac-Serra ECAL
CLAUDINE NOUGARET
FranceProducer, director
© Raymond Depardon
VLADIMIR PERIŠIĆ
SerbiaDirector, screenwriter
© Philippe Lebruman
"Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking." Antonio Machado. The Festival de Cannes is one of those paths we dream of crossing. The focus on young filmmakers presenting their short films, and the paths they have taken to get there, honor me. I can't wait to discover the richness of it all. It's a journey that I want to be demanding and kind, short after short, step after step. To be selected in this mythical place is a message of love, a worldwide recognition, and to preside over it is a source of pride.
LUBNA AZABAL
President of the Shorts films and La Cinef Jury
Selected from 4 420 films, 11 shorts will be presented this year in Competition, coming from 10 countries : Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Kosovo, Lithuania, Portugal and the United States. The Short Film Palme d'or will be handed by the Jury chaired by Lubna Azabal, Saturday, May 25, during the closing ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes.
VOLCELEST by Éric Briche
France - 15′
OOTIDĖ (Ootid) by Razumaitė Eglė
Lithuania - 9′
SANKI YOXSAN by Azer Guliev
Azerbaijan - 15′
LES BELLES CICATRICES by Raphaël Jouzeau
France - 15′
RRUGËS (On The Way) by Samir Karahoda
Kosovo - 15′
ACROSS THE WATERS by Viv Li
China - 15′
PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS by Alison McAlpine
Canada - 15′
TEA by Blake Rice
United States - 12′
AMARELA (Yellow) by André Hayato Saito
Brazil - 15′
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT by Nebojša Slijepčević
Croatia - 13′
BAD FOR A MOMENT (Mau Por Um Momento) by Daniel Soares
Portugal - 15′
For its 27th edition La Cinef has selected 18 shorts (14 live-action and 4 animated films) from among the 2,263 submitted by film schools all over the world. This year's programme reflects the geographic mobility of film students, with a Singaporean director in Australia, an Indian and a Lithuanian in the UK, a Russian in the Czech Republic and three shorts made at American schools by Russian, Chinese and British filmmakers.
The Jury will hand over La Cinef prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 23 May in the Buñuel Theatre.
CROW MAN by Yohann Abdelnour
ALBA - Lebanon - 8′
BANISHED LOVE by Xiwen Cong
Beijing Film Academy - China - 40′
PRAEIS (IT'LL PASS) by Dovydas Drakšas
London Film School - United Kingdom - 27′
ECHOES by Robinson Drossos
ENSAD - France - 7′
MAUVAIS COTON (US AND THEM) by Nicolas Dumaret
La Fémis - France - 20′
TERMINAL by East Elliott
NYU - United States of America - 18′
ELEVACIÓN by Gabriel Esdras
Universidad de Guadalajara - Mexico - 28′
IN SPIRITO by Nicolò Folin
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Italy - 14′
THE DEER'S TOOTH by Saif Hammash
Dar Al-Kalima University - Palestine - 16′
PLEVEL (WEEDS) by Pola Kazak
FAMO - Czech Republic - 14′
THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND by Nikos Kolioukos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece - 33′
FOREST OF ECHOES by Yoori Lim
Korea National University of Arts - South Korea - 22′
BUNNYHOOD by Mansi Maheshwari
NFTS - United Kingdom - 9′
SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW… by Chidananda S Naik
FTII, Pune - India - 16′
WITHERED BLOSSOMS by Lionel Seah
AFTRS - Australia - 14′
OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL by Asya Segalovich
Columbia University - United States of America - 22′
THREE by Amie Song
Columbia University - United States of America - 15′
IT'S NOT TIME FOR POP by Amit Vaknin
Tel Aviv University - Israel - 14′