The Festival de Cannes / Cannes Film Festival today announced the official selections for its Short Films competition track and student spotlight La Cinef program, including half a dozen intriguing animated shorts.
Selected from 4,420 films, 11 shorts from 10 countries will be presented this year in the Short Film competition. The Short Film Palme d’or will be handed by the Jury chaired by Lubna Azabal on Saturday, May 25, during the closing ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes.
The Short Film selection includes two animated works:
Volcelest by Éric Briche (France | Miyu Productions)
Winter is here. Fuseline, the little ermine depleted by lack of food, fled her wilderness to survive and settled near the farm and its chickens. His arrival will threaten the precariousness of a man.
Les Belles Cicatrices (The Beautiful Scars) by Raphaël Jouzeau (France | Balade Sauvage Prod.)
Gaspard still loves Leïla. A month after she left him, they find themselves in the same crowded bar. When the meeting goes wrong and he feels tears coming, Gaspard takes refuge under the tablecloth. Far from sight and closer to memories…
For its 27th edition, La Cinef has selected 18 shorts from among the 2,263 submitted by film schools all over the world. The Jury will hand over La Cinef prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday, May 23 in the Buñuel Theatre. The four animated films chosen are:
Crow Man by Yohann Abdelnour (Lebanon | ALBA)
In the middle of the dark woods, next to a lake, a little girl and her grandpa live together in a small wooden cabin. The old man is ill and slowly passing away. Death, a bizarre creature, is coming for him. The little girl knows it, and wants to confront death and kill it.
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Echoes by Robinson Drossos (France | ENSAD)
Echoes is a contemplative adventure into the depths of a troubled world. Guided by a distant melody resonating in the concrete and rock, we follow a character wandering in dark depths. Through plays of shadows and lights, we discover alongside him settings that switch between realism and dreamlike. Strange places are outlined in the light of the beam of his flashlight and the sound of drops of water on the ground punctuates our steps. In the distance, muffled music is heard, where does it come from?
Plevel (Weeds) by Pola Kazak (FAMU | Czechia)
Far, far away, endless fields overgrown with weeds stretch to infinity. A beautiful garden is hidden in the middle of them, and it is carefully looked after by the Gardener. Her endurance is put to the test when a severe storm breaks out and her garden is flooded with seeds of weeds. This innocent encounter slowly grows into a life-and-death struggle. The Gardener tries her best to defeat this elemental force, but her fear and her desire to resist the intruders at all costs puts her entire world at risk.
Bunnyhood by Mansi Maheshwari (U.K. | NFTS)
“Mum would never lie to me, would she?” Innocent Bobby discovers the answer to this question when she is surprised by a last minute trip to the hospital.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival will take place May 14-25. You can see the full selection and jury announcement here.
