WILL IT RAIN AGAIN TODAY
La Cinef Selection 2026 : Programme 2
For its 29th edition La Cinef has selected 14 live-action and 5 animated shorts from among the 2,750 sent by film schools all over the world.
Films screened as part of Programme 2
Wednesday, May 20th – 11:15am – Buñuel Theatre
WILL IT RAIN AGAIN TODAY
Wong Chau-Hong
Nihon University College of Art – Japan – 16′
After a routine document check in a factory on Tokyo’s outskirts, a young Chinese man tries to help Leyla, a Turkish girl. His efforts fail, but a quiet bond begins to form between them.
TÚ, YO Y LA VACA (Me, You and the Cow)
Aina Callejón
ESCAC – Spain – 20′
Martina, addicted to her phone, is taken by her father to a rehab center with an unusual therapy: healing through bonding with cows. Far from Wi-Fi and close to what hurts, she will have to face what she’s been avoiding.
PHOTOGRAPH OF AN INSANE WOMAN TO SHOW THE CONDITION OF HER HAIR
Arwen Aznag
LUCA School of Arts Brussels – Belgium – 6′
A young woman with untameable hair walks down the street. Men with full eyebrows and greasy hair shout after her. In her dreams, she is pestered by hysterical women, flying wombs and burning stakes. She starts to transform.
PREKO PRAGA (Over the Threshold)
Tara Gajović
FDU – Serbia – 15′
Teenagers Danijela and Branko, newlyweds find themselves overwhelmed by wedding traditions. When they feel they can no longer breathe, they decide to run away from their own wedding party into the cold night.
SHADOWS OF THE MOONLESS NIGHTS
Mehar Malhotra
FTII – India – 24′
Rajan, a weary factory worker, endures gruelling shifts and a volatile home life, drifting through sleepless nights in the city as he tries to reclaim the rest that always seems just out of reach.
