PROGRAMME COURTS MÉTRAGES 2024 © DR
The Short Film Competition programme
Selected from 4 420 films, 11 shorts are 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.
PROGRAMMES
Friday, May 24 – 11:00 a.m. – Debussy Theatre
Friday, May 24 – 2:00 pm – Buñuel Theatre
VOLCELEST by Éric Briche
France – 15′
Winter is here. To survive, Fuseline,, forced by the lack of food, flees her wild environment and settles near an isolated farm and its chickens. Her arrival threatens the precarious existence of the man who lives here.
OOTIDĖ (Ootid) by Razumaitė Eglė
Lithuania – 9′
Girls at summer camp raise different versions of what happened to one of their friends who had to leave the camp and go home.
SANKI YOXSAN by Azer Guliev
Azerbaijan – 15′
When Samir and Leyla decide to flee their families’ discord, Samir disappears the next morning. Leyla’s quest ensnares her, entwining her fate with his mysterious disappearance, becoming part of the mystery herself.
LES BELLES CICATRICES by Raphaël Jouzeau
France – 15′
Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla.
They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him.
The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.
RRUGËS (On The Way) by Samir Karahoda
Kosovo – 15′
Amid bureaucratic obstacles, with little or no hope for real political and social changes in the country, a father and son find comfort and strength in their shared optimism for the future.
ACROSS THE WATERS by Viv Li
China – 15′
Sandstorm blows, waters scarce. In a remote mining town without any radio signals, a quirky teenage girl gets curious about a passing truck driver.
PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS by Alison McAlpine
Canada – 15′
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
TEA by Blake Rice
United States – 12′
While rehearsing asking out the girl of his dreams, a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee gets stung in the throat by a hornet.
AMARELA (Yellow) by André Hayato Saito
Brazil – 15′
On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT by Nebojša Slijepčević
Croatia – 13′
February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.
BAD FOR A MOMENT (Mau Por Um Momento) by Daniel Soares
Portugal – 15′
A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.
THE SHORT FILM PROGRAMMESFriday, May 24
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT
Nebojša SLIJEPCEVICIn Competition - Short Films, 20242024 Palme d'Or - Short Film
