Le Cinef selection 2024 : Programme 1
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.
Films screened as part of Programme 1
Tuesday, May 21 – 2:30pm – Salle Buñuel
WITHERED BLOSSOMS by Lionel Seah
AFTRS – Australia – 14′
After evading and attempting to conceal her separation from a long-term partner for two weeks, a young woman finally visits her Grandma who is grappling with age.
IN SPIRITO by Nicolò Folin
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Italy – 14′
Traveling through 15th century Italy, a young courtier faces the mystery of a girl with stigmata.
PLEVEL (WEEDS) by Pola Kazak
FAMO – Czech Republic – 14′
A gardener tends a small garden in a field overgrown with weeds. What begins as an innocent encounter turns into a fight for survival and an attempt to preserve the existing world at any cost.
SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW… by Chidananda S Naik
FTII, Pune – India – 16′
The sun never rises again after an elderly woman steals the village’s rooster, which throws the community into disarray. To bring the rooster back, a prophecy is invoked, sending the old lady’s family into exile.
PRAEIS (IT’LL PASS) by Dovydas Drakšas
London Film School – United Kingdom – 27′
A daughter of a cigarette smuggler reevaluates the memories of her father, questioning the childhood myth she built around him and getting to know him anew.