– Ten works will be taking part in the short-film competition unspooling on the Croisette in May, while 19 titles feature in the Cinef selection
The End by Niki Lindroth von Bahr
The identity of the ten short films (selected from among the 3,184 submitted) that will be vying for the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival (12-23 May) and the 19 graduate films in the Cinef selection (comprising 14 fictions and five animations) has just been unveiled. They are as follows:
Short-film Competition
The Last Spring – Mathilde Bédouet
Fresh Cut – Hadrien Bels
Sisters’ Swim – Lola Degove
The End – Niki Lindroth von Bahr
For the Opponents – Federico Luis
Thunder Platoon – Theo Montoya
The Dream Is a Snail – Thien An Nguye
A Few Things Happening by a River – Daniel Soares
Spiritus Sanctus – Michal Toczek
Nobody Said Anything – Tamara Todorović
Cinef selection
Laser-Cat – Lucas Acher (NYU – USA)
Photograph of an Insane Woman to Show the Condition of Her Hair – Arwen Aznag (LUCA School of Arts Brussels – Belgium)
Me, You and the Cow – Aina Callejón (ESCAC – Spain)
Pickled – Fanny Capu (NFTS – UK)
Bird Rhapsody – Wonjung Choi (Hongik University – South Korea)
Always Wanted to be God, Never Wanted to be Good – Noa Epars, Marvin Merkel (HEAD – Switzerland)
Over the Threshold – Tara Gajović (FDU – Serbia)
Growing Stones, Flying Papers – Roozbeh Gezerseh, Soraya Shamsi (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf – Germany)
Sunday’s Children – Reuben Hamlyn (NYU – USA)
Somewhere I Belong – Youssef Handouse (ISAMM – Tunisia)
Silent Voices – Nadine Misong Jin (Columbia University – USA)
Axles – Jakub Krzyszpin (The Polish National Film School in Łódź – Poland)
Never Enough – Julius Lagoutte Larsen (La Fémis – France)
Our Secrets – Lenti Liang (USC Cinematic Arts – USA)
Shadows of the Moonless Nights – Mehar Malhotra (FTII – India)
28 Days Left – Yasmin Najjar (Aalto University – Finland)
Left Behind, Still Standing – Vida Skerk (NFTS – UK)
Where Fireflies Sparkle – Clara Vieira (ESTC – Portugal)
Will It Rain Again Today – Wong Chau-Hong (Nihon University College of Art – Japan)
(Translated from French)
