2018 Cannes Film Festival: Official Short Films and Cinéfondation Selection
The Short films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2018 for the 71st Cannes Film Festival has been revealed. The announcement of the Official Selection will be April 12th.
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 71stFestival 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 | 14’ |
| Marta PAJEK | III animation movie |
Poland | 12’ |
| Masahiko SATO, Genki KAWAMURA, Yutaro SEKI, Masayuki TOYOTA, Kentaro HIRASE |
DUALITY | Japan | 14’ |
| WEI Shujun | ON THE BORDER | China | 15′ |
| Charles WILLIAM | ALL THESE CREATURES | Australia | 13’ |
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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. Twelve 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’ |
| DI Shen | 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 |
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