The Short Films Selections at the 71st Festival de Cannes

The Short Films Selections 2018 © FDC

In the run-up to the announcement of the Official Selection of the 71st Festival de Cannes, to be held on Thursday, April, 12th at 11am, discover the Short films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2018.

Following their deliberations, the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Bertrand Bonello, will decide on the best films both from the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation.

THE 2018 SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

This year, the selection committee received 3,943 short films.The 2018 Short Films Competition comprises eight films (7 works of fictions and 1 animation), from Australia, China, France, Iran, Japan, Philippines, Poland and USA.



These films are all in the running for the 2018 Short Film Palme d'or, to be awarded by Bertrand Bonello, President of the Jury, at the official award ceremony of the 71st Festival de Cannes on May 19th.

THE CINÉFONDATION SELECTION 2018

The Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 17 films this year (14 live-action and 3 animated films), from among the 2,426 submitted by film schools all over the world. Fourteen countries on four continents will be represented. Twelve of the twenty-two directors selected for this program are women.



The jury will hand over the three Cinéfondation prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 17th May, in the Buñuel Theatre.

Ori AHARON

DOLFIN MEGUMI

(Rubber Dolphin)

Steve Tisch School of Film & Television,

Tel Aviv University

28’

Israël / Israel

Zhannat ALSHANOVA

END OF SEASON 

The London Film School

23’

Royaume-Uni / UK

Louise AUBERTIN, Éloïse GIRARD, Marine MENEYROL, Jonas RITTER, Loucas RONGEART, Amandine THOMOUX

SAILOR'S DELIGHT

ESMA

France

6’

Lucia BULGHERONI

INANIMATE

NFTS

8’

Royaume-Uni / UK

Diego CÉSPEDES

EL VERANO DEL LEÓN ELÉCTRICO

Universidad de Chile - ICEI

22’

(The Summer of the Electric Lion)

Chili / Chile

Jamie DACK

PALM TREES AND POWER LINES

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

15’

États-Unis / USA

DI Shen

DONG WU XIONG MENG

Shanghai Theater Academy

31’

(The Storms in Our Blood)

Chine / China

Laura GARCIA

FRAGMENT DE DRAME

La Fémis

24’

(A Piece of Tragedy)

France

Constanza GATTI

CINCO MINUTOS AFUERA

Universidad del Cine (FUC)

10’

(Five Minutes Outside)

Argentine / Argentina

Ariel GUTIÉRREZ

LOS TIEMPOS DE HÉCTOR

CCC

29’

(Hector's Nightfall)

Mexique / Mexico

Eryk LENARTOWICZ

DOTS

AFTRS

23’

Australie / Australia

Marta MAGNUSKA

INNY

PWSFTviT

5’

(The Other)

Pologne / Poland

Georgiana MOLDOVEANU

ALBASTRU SI ROSU, IN PROPORTII EGALE

(Equally Red and Blue)

UNATC I.L. CARAGIALE

Roumanie / Romania

21’

Pier Lorenzo PISANO

COSÌ IN TERRA

(As It Is on Earth)

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Italie / Italy

13’

Igor POPLAUHIN

KALENDAR

Moscow School of New Cinema

28’

(Calendar)

Russie / Russia

Arian VAZIRDAFTARI

MESLE BACHE ADAM

(Like a Good Kid)

Tehran University of Dramatic Arts

Iran

20’

Andrew ZOX

I AM MY OWN MOTHER

San Francisco State University

23’

États-Unis / USA