Short Film News (SFN)- The announcement of the 2016 Official Selection will begin with the short films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection, in the run-up to the press conference for the 69th Festival de Cannes, to be held on Thursday 14th April.

 

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

 

This year, the selection committee received 5,008 short films – 458 more than in 2015.
The 2016 Short Films Competition comprises ten films, mostly from Europe and Latin America, with one representative from Asia and one from Africa.


These films are all in the running for the 2016 Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Naomi Kawase, President of the Jury, at the official award ceremony of the 69th Festival de Cannes on 22th May.
 

THE SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

 
 
Lotfi ACHOUR     LA LAINE SUR LE DOS     Tunisia, France     15’
                  
Sara DUNLOP     DREAMLANDS     United-Kingdom     14’
                  
Juanjo GIMENEZ     TIMECODE     Spain     15’
                  
Raymund GUTIERREZ     IMAGO     Philippines     15’
                  
Simón MESA SOTO     MADRE
(Mother)     Colombia, Sweden     14’
                  
João Paulo MIRANDA MARIA     A MOÇA QUE DANÇOU COM O DIABO
(The Girl who Danced with the Devil)     Brazil     14’
                  
Félix MOATI     APRÈS SUZANNE     France     15’
                  
Catalin ROTARU,
Gabi Virginia SARGA     4:15 P.M. SFARSITUL LUMII
(4:15 P.M. The End of the World)     Romania     15’
                  
Farnoosh SAMADI,
Ali ASGARI     IL SILENZIO
(The Silence)     Italy     15’
                  
Simon VAHLNE     FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH     Sweden     14’
                  

 
 

To mark its 19th year, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 18 films (14 works of fiction and 4 animations), from among the 2,300 works submitted this year by film schools from all over the world. Fifteen countries from three continents are represented.

Seven of the films selected come from schools taking part for the first time, and it is also the first time that a film school from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one from Venezuela have seen one of their films reach the selection stage. More than half of this edition's movies are directed by women, with 10 out of the 18 films selected.

 

The three Cinéfondation prizes will be awarded at a ceremony preceding the screening of the prize-winning films on Friday 20th May in the Buñuel Theatre.



 

THE CINÉFONDATION SELECTION

 

   

Hamid AHMADI IN THE HILLS

The London Film School
UK
21'

Mounia AKL SUBMARINE

Columbia University School of the Arts
USA
19'

Nadja ANDRASEV

A NYALINTÁS NESZE
(The Noise of Licking)

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Hungary
09'

Alexandru BADEA

TOATE FLUVIILE CURG ÎN MARE
(All Rivers Run to the Sea)

UNATC "I. L. Caragiale"
Romania
24'

Mélody
BOULISSIÈRE

AILLEURS
(Somewhere)

École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
France
06'

Anna CAZENAVE CAMBET GABBER LOVER La Fémis
France 13'

Jac CLINCH THE ALAN DIMENSION NFTS
UK 08'

Alexandre GILMET
POUBELLE
(Trash) INSAS
Belgium 19'

Marta HERNAIZ PIDAL DOBRO
(Fine)

film.factory

Bosnia and Herzegovina
15'

Michael LABARCA LA CULPA, PROBABLEMENTE
(The Guilt, Probably)

Universidad de Los Andes

Venezuela
14'

Ernesto MARTÍNEZ BUCIO LAS RAZONES DEL MUNDO
(The Reasons in the World)

Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica

Mexico
37'

PARK Young-ju 1 KILOGRAM

Korea National University of Arts

Republic of Korea
29'

Fereshteh PARNIAN ARAM Université Lumière Lyon 2
France 17'

Saurav RAI GUDH
(Nest) Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute
India 28'

Laura SAMANI LA SANTA CHE DORME
(The Sleeping Saint) Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Italy 19'

Remo SCHERRER

BEI WIND UND WETTER

(Whatever the Weather)
Hochschule Luzern - Design & Kunst
Switzerland 11'

Or SINAI ANNA The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School
Israel 24'

Malena VAIN BUSINESS

Universidad del Cine

Argentina
20'