68th Cannes Festival announces short film and Cinéfondation competition titles

As the film world waits for the Official Feature Film Selection of Cannes to be announced on 16th April, the 68th Festival De Cannes have revealed the short films for that will take part in its Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation section.

In the Short Film Competition, the UK has two short films represented with Dan Hodgson’s Love Is Blind and Eva Riley’s Patriot while films from France and Belgium are also present in the selection. Australian director Shane Danielsen – a former Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival – will also take part in the competition with his film The Guests. The selection committee received 4,550 short films from over 100 countries.

The Cinéfondation Selection celebrates shorts from film schools from across the world and this year shorts from French, UK, Belgian, Spanish (the first time a Spanish film school has been selected) and Czech film schools - amongst many others - will screen at the festival. 1600 films were submitted

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will be chaired by director Abderrahmane Sissako. The three Cinéfondation prizes will be awarded at a ceremony preceding the screening of the Prize-Winning films on Friday 22nd May.

The full selection of films is:

Short Film Competition

Waves ’98 (Dir. Ely Dagher, Lebanon/Qatar)

The Guests (Dir. Shane Danielsen, Australia)

Sali (Dir.Ziya Demirel, Turkey / France)

Le Repas Dominical (Sunday Lunch) (Dir. Céline Devaux, France)

Love Is Blind (Dir. Dan Hodgson, UK)

Ave Maria (Dir. Basil Khali, Palestine / France / Germany)

Copain (Buddy) (Dirs. Jan Roosens & Raf Roosens, Belgium)

Patriot (Dir. Eva Riley, UK)

Presente Imperfecto (Present Imperfect) (Dir. Iair Siad, Argentina)

The 2015 Cinéfondation Selection

Koshtargah (Slaughterhouse) (Dir.Behzad Azadi, Art University Of Tehran, Iran)

El Ser Magnético (The Magnetic Nature) (Dir. Mateo Bendesky, Universidad Del Cine (FUC), Argentina)

Share (Dir. Pippa Bianco, AFI’s Directing Workshop For Women, USA)

Manoman (Dir. Simon Cartwright, National Film And Television School, UK)

Victor XX (Dir. Ian Garrido López, Escac, Spain)

Vozvrashenie Erkina (The Return Of Erkin) (Dir. Maria Guskova, High Courses For Scriptwriters And Film Directors, Russia)

Leonardo (Dirs. Félix Hazeaux, Thomas Nitsche, Edward Noonan, Franck Pina & Raphaëlle Plantier, Mopa (Ex Supinfocom Arles), France)

Locas Perdidas (Lost Queens) (Dir. Ignacio Juricic Merillán, Carrera De Cine Y Tv Universidad De Chile, Chile)

Tsunami (Dir. Sofie Kampmark, The Animation Workshop, Denmark)

Retriever (Dirs. Tomáš Klein & Tomáš Merta, FAMU Prague, Czech Republic)

Les Chercheurs (The Wheel Of Emotions) (Dir. Aurélien Peilloux, La Fémis, France)

Abwesend (Absent) (Dir. Eliza Petkova, Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie (Dffb), Germany)

Asara Rehovot Mea Etsim (Ten Buildings Away) (Dir. Miki Polonski, Minshar For Art, Israel)

14 Steps (Dir. Maksim Shavkin, Moscow School Of New Cinema, Russia)

Anfibio (Amphibian) (Dir. Héctor Silva Núñez, EICTV, Cuba)

Ainahan Ne Palaa (To Return Until) (Dir. Salla Sorri, Aalto University, Elo Film School Helsinki, Finland)

Het Paradijs (Paradise) (Dir. Laura Vandewynckel, RITS School Of Arts Brussels, Belgium)

Ri Guang Zhi Xia (Under The Sun) (Dir.Qiu Yang, The VCA Film & Tv School, Melbourne University, Australia)