The 63rd Festival de Cannes will welcome 9 films in Competition for the Short Film Palme d’Or, which will be awarded during the Closing ceremony on the 23rd of May.

These nine short films, running between 10 and 15 minutes, represent a wide range of cinematic genres in animation, documentary and fiction. This equally balanced and strong offering has a particularly strong participation from Latin America. France will be represented by Serge Avédikian.

At the next Cannes Film Festival, the Cinéfondation will present 13 films selected from the 1600 entries submitted by film schools from all over the world. The films, representing 11 countries, will be shown to the Cinéfondation and Shorts Jury, presided by Atom Egoyan, who will choose the best three.
The awards will be announced on 21 May at the Cannes Film Festival.

Jens BLANK – COOKED - 7’
NFTS, United Kingdom

Vatche BOULGHOURJIAN – HINKERORT ZORASUNE (The Fifth Column) – 29’
NYU, United States

Vincent CARDONA – COUCOU-LES-NUAGES (Anywhere Out of the World) – 38’
La fémis, France

Gilles COULIER – IJSLAND (Iceland) – 22’
Sint-Lukas University*, Belgium

KIM Tae-yong – FROZEN LAND - 36’
Sejong University*, South Korea

Dane KOMLJEN – JA VEĆ JESAM SVE ONO ŠTO ŽELIM DA IMAM (I Already Am Everything I Want to Have) – 35’
FDU, Serbia

Juho KUOSMANEN – TAULUKAUPPIAAT (The Painting Sellers) – 60’
Aalto University, Finland

Janaína MARQUES RIBEIRO – LOS MINUTOS, LAS HORAS (The Minutes, the Hours) – 11’
EICTV, Cuba

Michaela MÜLLER – MIRAMARE – 8’
ALU*, Croatia

Benjamin NAISHTAT – EL JUEGO (The Game) – 20’
Le Fresnoy, France

Mátyás PRIKLER – ĎAKUJEM, DOBRE (Thanks, Fine) – 40’
FTF-VŠMU, Slovakia

Bálint SZIMLER – ITT VAGYOK (Here I Am) – 36’
SzFE, Hungary

Andrew WESMAN – SHELLEY – 21’
Harvard University*, United States

*schools selected for the first time