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Published by Cannes
Apr 23, 2022
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75th Festival de Cannes: Short films and La Cinef Selections

After watching 3,507 films from more than 140 countries, 9 shorts will be presented in Competition from the following 11 countries: China, South Korea, Costa Rica, the United States, France, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, and Nepal.

The Short Film Palme d'or will be awarded on Saturday, May 28 during the closing ceremony.

TSUTSUE Amartei Armar 

Ghana/France - 15'

 

PO SUI TAI YANG ZHI XIN (A SHORT STORY) Bi Gan 

China - 15'

 

LORI (MELANCHOLY OF MY MOTHER'S LULLABIES) Abinash Bikram Shah 

Nepal/Hong Kong - 14'

 

HAI BIAN SHENG QI YI ZUO XUAN YA (THE WATER MURMURS) Story Chen

China - 14'

 

UOGOS (CHERRIES) Vytautas Katkus 

Lithuania/Italy - 15'

 

SAME OLD Lloyd Lee Choi 

United States - 15'

 

LE FEU AU LAC (FIRE AT THE LAKE) Pierre Menahem 

France - 15'

 

GAKJIL (PERSONA) Sujin Moon 

South Korea - 6'

 

LUZ NOCTURNA (NIGHT LIGHT) Kim Torres 

Costa Rica/Mexico - 14'

La Cinef Selection

For its 25th edition, La Cinef has selected 13 live-action and 3 animated shorts directed by 6 male directors and 10 women directors, from among the 1,528 submitted by film schools all over the world. Four of them are from schools taking part for the first time and these 16 shorts reflect the diversity of filmmaking education in the world.

The 3 La Cinef prizes will be handed at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 26 May, in the Buñuel Theatre.

CHLIEB NÁŠ KAŽDODENNÝ (LIQUID BREAD) Alica Bednáriková

FTF VŠMU-Film and Television Faculty - Slovakia  - 26'

 

MUMLIFE Ruby Challenger

AFTRS - Australia - 15'

 

TOUT CECI VOUS REVIENDRA (ALL OF THIS BELONGS TO YOU) Lilian Fanara

La Fémis - France - 29'

 

LES HUMAINS SONT CONS QUAND ILS S'EMPILENT (HUMANS ARE DUMBER WHEN CRAMMED UP TOGETHER) Laurène Fernandez

La CinéFabrique - France - 4'

 

IL BARBIERE COMPLOTTISTA (A CONSPIRACY MAN) Valerio Ferrara

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Italy - 19'

 

THE PASS Pepi Ginsberg

NYU - United States - 15'

 

SHEHERUT (KINSHIP) Orin Kadoori

The Steve Tisch School of Film & Television Tel Aviv University - Israel - 24'

 

NAUHA Pratham Khurana

Whistling Woods International - India - 26’

 

JUTRO NAS TAM NIE MA (WE ARE NOT THERE TOMORROW) Olga Kłyszewicz

The Polish National Film School in Łódź - Poland - 8'

 

DI ER (SOMEWHERE) Li Jiahe

Hebei University of Science and Technology School of Film and Television - China - 23'

 

FENG ZHENG (THE SILENT WHISTLE) Li Yingtong

Emerson College - United States - 18’

 

MISTIDA Falcão Nhaga

ESTC - Portugal - 30'

 

GLORIOUS REVOLUTION Masha Novikova

London Film School - United Kingdom - 20'

 

100% FLÅET KÆRLIGHED (THAT'S AMORE) Malthe Saxer

Den Danske Filmskole - Denmark - 49'

 

HAJSZÁLREPEDÉS (CRAZE) Bianka Szelestey

Eötvös Loránd University Department of Film Studies - Hungary - 22'

 

SPRING ROLL DREAM Mai Vu

NFTS - United Kingdom - 9'

 

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