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The Short Films Selections at the 71st Festival de Cannes

The Short Films Selections 2018 © FDC

In the run-up to the announcement of the Official Selection of the 71st Festival de Cannes, to be held on Thursday, April, 12th at 11am, discover the Short films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2018.

Following their deliberations, the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Bertrand Bonello, will decide on the best films both from the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation.

THE 2018 SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

This year, the selection committee received 3,943 short films.
The 2018 Short Films Competition comprises eight films (7 works of fictions and 1 animation), from Australia, China, France, Iran, Japan, Philippines, Poland and USA.

These films are all in the running for the 2018 Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Bertrand Bonello, President of the Jury, at the official award ceremony of the 71st Festival de Cannes on May 19th.

Oren GERNER

GABRIEL

France 15'
Raymund Ribay GUTIERREZ JUDGEMENT Philippines 15’
Celine HELD
Logan GEORGE
CAROLINE USA 12’
Saeed JAFARIAN TARIKI
(Umbra)
Iran 15’
Marta PAJEK III
animation movie
Poland 12’
Masahiko SATO, Genki KAWAMURA, Yutaro SEKI, Masayuki TOYOTA,
Kentaro HIRASE

DUALITY

Japan 14’
WEI Shujun

YAN BIAN SHAO NIAN

(ON THE BORDER)

China 15'
Charles WILLIAMS ALL THESE CREATURES Australia 13’

THE CINÉFONDATION SELECTION 2018

The Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 17 films this year (14 live-action and 3 animated films), from among the 2,426 submitted by film schools all over the world. Fourteen countries on four continents will be represented. Eleven of the twenty-two directors selected for this program are women.

The jury will hand over the three Cinéfondation prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 17th May, in the Buñuel Theatre.

Ori AHARON

DOLFIN MEGUMI
(Rubber Dolphin)

    Steve Tisch School of Film & Television,
Tel Aviv University
Israël
28’

Zhannat ALSHANOVA

END OF SEASON The London Film School
UK
23’
Louise AUBERTIN, Éloïse GIRARD, Marine MENEYROL, Jonas RITTER, Loucas RONGEART, Amandine THOMOUX

SAILOR'S DELIGHT

ESMA
France
6’
Lucia BULGHERONI INANIMATE NFTS
UK
8’
Diego CÉSPEDES EL VERANO DEL LEÓN ELÉCTRICO 
(The Summer of the Electric Lion) 
Universidad de Chile – ICEI
Chile
22’
Jamie DACK PALM TREES AND POWER LINES  NYU Tisch School of the Arts
USA
15’
SHEN Di  DONG WU XIONG MENG
(The Storms in Our Blood)
Shanghai Theater Academy 
China
31’
Laura GARCIA
 

FRAGMENT DE DRAME
(A Piece of Tragedy)

La Fémis
France
24’
Constanza GATTI

CINCO MINUTOS AFUERA
(Five Minutes Outside)

Universidad del Cine (FUC)
Argentina
10’
Ariel GUTIÉRREZ LOS TIEMPOS DE HÉCTOR
(Hector's Nightfall)
CCC
Mexico
29’
Eryk LENARTOWICZ DOTS AFTRS
Australia
23’
Marta MAGNUSKA INNY
(The Other)
PWSFTviT
Poland
5’
Georgiana MOLDOVEANU ALBASTRU SI ROSU, IN PROPORTII EGALE
(Equally Red and Blue) 
UNATC I.L. CARAGIALE
Romania
21’
Pier Lorenzo PISANO

COSÌ IN TERRA
(As It Is on Earth)

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Italy
13’
Igor POPLAUHIN KALENDAR
(Calendar)
 
Moscow School of New Cinema
Russia
28’
Arian VAZIRDAFTARI MESLE BACHE ADAM
(Like a Good Kid)
Tehran University of Dramatic Arts 
Iran

20’

Andrew ZOX I AM MY OWN MOTHER  San Francisco State University
USA
23’

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