The Short Films Selections at the 72nd Festival de Cannes

Following the announcement of the Official Selection of the 72nd Festival de Cannes, held on Thursday, April, 18th at 11am, discover the Short Films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2019.

Presided by Claire Denis, the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will award the 3 Prizes of the Cinéfondation on Thursday 23rd May. The Short Film Palme d'or will be awarded during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday 25th May.

The 2019 Short Films Competition comprises 11 films (9 works of fictions, 1 documentary and 1 animation), from Albania, Argentina, France, Finland, Greece, Israel, Ukraine, Sweden and USA. This year, the selection committee has viewed 4240 short films.

For its 22nd edition, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 17 films (14 live-action and 3 animated films), from among the 2,000 submitted by schools all over the world. The important presence of Central and Eastern Europe highlights the vitality of filmmaking education in these countries. Six of the selected shorts come from schools taking part for the first time.

Erenik BEQIRI	THE VAN	Albania, France	15'
Dekel BERENSON	ANNA	Ukraine, Israel, United Kingdom	15’
Vanessa DUMONT Nicolas DAVENEL	THE JUMP Documentary	France	12’
Vasilis KEKATOS	THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY	Greece / France	9’
Teemu NIKKI	ALL INCLUSIVE	Finland	15’
Elin ÖVERGAARD	INGEN LYSSNAR (WHO TALKS)	Sweden	14’
Agnès PATRON	AND THEN THE BEAR Animation Movie	France	14'
Yona ROZENKIER	PARPARIM (BUTTERFLIES)	Israel	7’
Agustina SAN MARTIN	MONSTRUO DIOS (MONSTER GOD)	Argentina	10'
Chloë SEVIGNY	WHITE ECHO	USA	15'
Federico Luis TACHELLA	LA SIESTA (THE NAP)	Argentina	14'

THE 2019 SELECTION CINEFONDATION

For its 22^nd edition, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 17 films (14 live-action and 3 animated films), from among the 2,000 submitted by schools all over the world. The important presence of Central and Eastern Europe highlights the vitality of filmmaking education in these countries. Six of the selected shorts come from schools taking part for the first time.

The Jury will hand over the three Cinéfondation prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 23^rd May, in the Palais des Festivals Buñuel Theatre.

Wisam AL JAFARI	AMBIENCE	Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture Palestine	15’
Louise COURVOISIER	MANO A MANO	CinéFabrique France	23’
Ondřej ERBAN	STO DVACET OSM TISÍC (ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND)	FAMU Czech Republic	16’
Kenya GILLESPIE	JEREMIAH	The University of Texas at Austin USA	10’
Martin GONDA	PURA VIDA	FTF VŠMU – Film and Television Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts Slovakia	30’
Shoki LIN	ADAM	Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore	19’
Yarden LIPSHITZ LOUZ	NETEK (RIFT)	Sapir College Israel	21’
David MCSHANE	SOLAR PLEXUS	NFTS United Kingdom	9’
Antonio MESSANA	ROSSO: LA VERA STORIA FALSA DEL PESCATORE CLEMENTE (ROSSO: A TRUE LIE ABOUT A FISHERMAN)	La Fémis France	28’
Katalin MOLDOVAI	AHOGY EDDIG (AS UP TO NOW)	Budapest Metropolitan University (METU) Hungary	24’
Martin MONK	FAVORITEN (FAVOURITES)	Filmakademie Wien Austria	18’
Leszek MOZGA	ROADKILL	University of the Arts London (UAL) United Kingdom	8’
Barbara RUPIK	DUSZYCZKA (THE LITTLE SOUL)	PWSFTviT Poland	9’
Richard VAN	HIẾU	CalArts USA	24’
Flo VAN DEUREN	BAMBOE	RITCS Belgium	19’
Olesya YAKOVLEVA	SLOZHNOPODCHINENNOE (COMPLEX SUBJECT)	St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television Russia	26’
YEON Jegwang	REONGHEE (ALIEN)	Korea National University of Arts South Korea	15’

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