LA CINEF 2024 : PROGRAMME 2
Le Cinef selection 2024 : Programme 2
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 2
Wednesday, May 22 – 11am – Salle Buñuel
THE DEER’S TOOTH by Saif Hammash
Dar Al-Kalima University – Palestine – 16′
A young man from a refugee camp embarks on a perilous journey in order to fulfil his little brother’s wish: to throw his milk tooth into the sea.
OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL by Asya Segalovich
Columbia University – United States of America – 22′
As people try to adapt to the new reality of present-day Russia, a cartographer encounters a young man who has recently escaped from an adult psycho-neurological facility.
ECHOES by Robinson Drossos
ENSAD – France – 7′
Strange places take shape in the glow of a torchlight, and the sound of water droplets on the ground punctuates our footsteps. In the distance, we hear muffled music, where does it come from?
BANISHED LOVE by Xiwen Cong
Beijing Film Academy – China – 40′
In her early twenties, Ding Han is wondering if all places are the same as her homeland, where the only way for people to express their feelings is through mutual aggression.
