The plot may sound chaotic, but the film itself is not. We’re left to decide which we’ll let it be. Cannes Short Film Festival. Inspired by her own 2009 short film, which tackles the subject of young African men drowning at sea as they attempt to make it to Europe, Diop’s merging of social realism and magical realism produced fine results. In a collection of chaptered scenes, each showing these Hockney-esque participants in a mundane activity (walking, watching TV, painting a fence), Jeong lightheartedly ponders our relationships to nature and our own existence within the immensity of time. In 2015, requiring more capacity, CSFF moved to the Cinema Pathé Masséna in Nice. A film by Celine Held & Logan George. The harmony of the farmhouse is broken and the initially calm animation follows suit, descending into a frenzy of firework colours, revolutionary bear-riding children and asteroid-like houses flying through voids. The film treats bodies as both sculptors and sculptures, finding the beauty in the body’s form and lingering on it, but giving equal time to the pain and craft behind the art. And unlike its feature film counterpart, the short Palme has ventured well beyond the realm of live-action narrative film many times. Play. It has the air of psychoanalysis to it, the sort of myth-making directed right at our deepest anxieties. ©2021 British Film Institute. Barbara Rupik’s Polish animation The Little Soul is quite a grisly, enthralling film, which feels like watching a creature made of melting raspberry-ripple ice-cream, wade through a side-scrolling video game wasteland designed by Hieronymus Bosch. The story follows a group of astronomers who voyage to the moon. Because I’ve quit.” It’s awkward, earthy and downright weird. So many that I couldn’t even feature some of the best in this piece – do yourself a favor and go track down “Blinkity Blank,” “Skaterdater,” “Balablok,” “Sniffers” and “Cracker Bag,” to name a few. Khitruk combines the charisma of Saul Bass with an Eastern European absurdist sensibility, and the result is both charming and unruly. Parasite For the 2014-2019 schedules and award winners, see here. The short films that have been honored over the years by the Cannes Film Festival are significant, unique and often almost brashly creative. Patron knows the value of negative space, using it to tell an expressionistic, violent coming-of-age tale. Bardin is commenting on war, greed, and the limitations of our natural resources. It’s really more evidence of why the term “documentary” is silly in the first place, but that’s another conversation entirely. I can’t entirely explain it, but there you have it. These are short films that have won the Palm d'Or. Jane Campion’s first short film won the Palme, and it was with Cătălin Mitulescu’s 2004 winner Traffic that the Romanian New Wave arrived on the Croisette. The Short Film Palme d'Or ( French: Palme d'Or du court métrage) is the highest prize … Un Certain Regard Prize: Special Jury Prize. The film ends on a beach-side musical performance, where the hypnotising local music is a call to arms or an epitaph. “Wind” might be the single greatest one-shot short film I have ever seen. In a world where digital has allowed the single take to become something of a fetishised commodity, it’s refreshing to see a filmmaker not throwing away their shot. This small narrative of a man stuck in rush hour, destined to be late for an important meeting, begins to build the complex relationship that the Romanian New Wave has with time, even without its signature long takes. 4.4 BEST SCI-FI SHORT FILM Trip To The Moon. Palm d'Or: Best Short Film. If “Island” is among Cannes’ most charming allegories, Garri Bardin’s wire animation is its darkest masterpiece. Registered charity 287780. Of all Cannes-nominated short films between 1990 and 2018, 91.7% had one director, 7.6% had two directors and only two films had more than two. 15- The annual prize of usd 3500 will be given once a year to the Best Short of the Year. Best Documentary - Short Film. Jim Jarmusch’s eventual 2003 feature began here, with a single short film starring Tom Waits and Iggy Pop. A record 2,067 features films were submitted for consideration for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival (1,845 films in 2019). As ever, the selection and winners across all strands of the festival are a reminder that it’s not just the features that provide the best films at Cannes. Ambience, directed by Wisam Al Jafari, os a Palestinian film following two musicians who keep getting interrupted by the sounds of a nearby refugee camp. Another film working with the long-take format was That Which Is to Come Is Just a Promise (from collective Flatform), an experimental 30 minutes that cuts between a number of seemingly endless shots, winding through the streets and natural landscape of Funafuti (in the Tuvalu archipelago). Agnès Patron’s And Then The Bear was the only animated film among the Official Competition shorts. It also contains the most unsettling example of French fry eating in cinema. 4. It’s funny in that restrained, matter-of-fact sort of way, especially when the two light up cigarettes because “the beauty of quitting is that now I can have one. 2018 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or – Best Short Film. These smaller films are a quirkier bunch, an exciting collection of cartoons and vérité documentaries alongside the international narratives. The Palme d’Or du Court Métrage has had a long, varied, and pretty magnificent history. It is the simplest of triumphs, and as haunting as “Harpya” in its own way. János Vadász’s “Overture,” is a documentary, in a sense. As well as the Palme d’Or, The Distance Between Us and the Sky also won the Queer Palme. Film Also Nominated For ‘Best Writing’ Los Angeles, CA – Diversity in Cannes, the global film movement created by Yolanda Brinkley to promote inclusion at the Cannes Film Festival, announced the winners of the 2020 Short Film Showcase, via a virtual awards ceremony. Un Certain Regard: Jury Prize. “Parasite” is Bong Joon-Ho’s latest laser-sharp social satire. The film then pans behind them, gradually granting us a 360 degree view of a chilling event in this tiny Hungarian village. Agnès Patron’s stripped-down, expressionistic And Then the Bear was the only animated film among Cannes’s Official Competition shorts. Five female directors are also featured in the 2020 Official Selection. 14- Maximum length allowed is 40 minutes. Best Action Film: Koan Best Animated Film: The Sandman Best Choreography: The Stop Best Cinematography: Tombstone Pillow Best Comedy Film: Charlie – Someone’s In There Best Costume Design: The Sycamore Gap Best Dance Film: The Return Following in the footsteps of Leigh and Cassavetes, Van builds on an authentic, semi-improvised script, to share characters that feel extremely well-weathered. The 72nd Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup of Cannes Court Métrage 2019. The Cannes Short Film Festival showcases the best of international short filmmaking in the world's most famous film festival city: Cannes. While the courtyard of a petrol station may not seem the most romantic location, Kekatos, along with his sparkling central duo, played by Nikolakis Zeginoglou and Ioko Ioannis Kotidis, inject the cold light and concrete with the energy and warmth of new romantic possibility. Awards were presented and screened publicly in Cannes, France at a special gala. Marcell Ivanyi begins with a recreation of a photograph by Lucien Hervé, showing three women looking off-camera in the same direction. Subscribe now for exclusive offers and the best of cinema. There are films on this list that seem almost shockingly early, forgotten forerunners of 20th century cinema’s greatest moments. In 2019, the Short Film Palme d’or was awarded to THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY by Vasilis Kekatos (Greece), by a jury chaired by Claire DENIS and formed of Stacy MARTIN, Panos H. KOUTRAS, Eran and Cătălin MITULESCU. All rights reserved. The plot is both immaterial and crucial, great significance dropped into the most minute of quarrels: an exhausted father ordering his son to pick up the pieces of an orange tossed out the window of the car, an argument between siblings about missing a television show. As well as judging the Official Competition shorts, legendary French director Claire Denis, along with her jury, presided over the Cinéfondation, the Festival’s student film selection. Beautifully painted in their signature style of pencil and paint over photocopies, “When the Day Breaks” is a warm, wise look at how we are all connected. The influence of this film from director and actor George Melies cannot be overstated. Yet, according to this fascinating essay by Michael Brooke, we can’t overstate the significance of early documentaries like “Floods.” Made in the brief window between World War Two and state-imposed Socialist Realism, the fact that documentaries of this nature even exist is pretty incredible. And this is why, by providing a link between the Shorts in Competition and the Short Film Corner, Cannes Court Métrage is the proof of the vitality of a world meant to become tomorrow’s Festival de Cannes. International Peace Award. Film Original title 1946 - 47: No award this year 1949: Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler (United States) Lost Boundaries: 1951: Terence Rattigan (United Kingdom) The Browning Version: 1952: Piero Tellini (Italy) Cops and Robbers: Guardie e ladri: 1953 - 57: No award this year 1958 1: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile (Italy) At the official Cannes award ceremony, before the feature prizes are handed out, there is another Palme d’Or announced: for the best short film. “Atmospheric” would be the most clichéd understatement for the mood of this weird little animation, in which a mysterious bird-woman torments a mustachioed gentleman. Cannes Shorts will be celebrating the year's best in short film genre: Best Short Film Best Short Documentary Best LGBT Short Best Horror Short Best Sci-Fi Short Best Animated Short Best Experimental Short Best Short Short Best Music Video Nor are they an aside, tangential to the larger history of cinema that the feature Palme winners represent. Short films explore the present and prepare the future. The Palme d’Or, the highest prize granted at the Cannes Film Festival, for Best Short was given to Charles Williams’ marvel “All These Creatures”, filmed on historic 16mm gauge of film.It presented topics around growing up, parents dealing with children and it was all revealed through the view of youth. It’s thrilling, not just for that moment, but to see a director appear in control of a vision and then to see them break free. Films. Here it is, the eight-minute start to one of the richest filmographies of the last thirty years. “An Exercise in Discipline – Peel” – by Jane Campion (1986). There’s tension in the air that breezes through the whispers of grass (heightened by the stellar music of Pierre Oberkampf and sound from Mathias Chaumet) as they anticipate a new arrival; a cowboy who looks like someone outlined the Marlboro Man on a chalkboard and started animating his smoking silhouette. Here are the cream of the crop, the ten best winners of the Palme d’Or du Court Métrage that are available to watch online. The 2019 Short Films Competition comprises 11 films (9 works of fictions, 1 documentary, and 1 animation), from Albania, Argentina, France, Finland, Greece, Israel, Ukraine, Sweden, and the USA. The poor guy is conquered, converted, fingerprinted and abandoned again and again while the world steals the sand out from under him. RITUS - Cannes Official Selection, Winner Best Film, 48 Hour Film Project Leeuwarden (2016) - YouTube. The programme features 11 short films (9 works of fictions, 1 documentary and 1 animation), from Albania, Argentina, France, Finland, Greece, Israel, Ukraine, Sweden and USA. Soviet animator Fyodor Khitruk’s “Island” is a wry indictment of colonialism, built around one lonely castaway under one lonely tree. In the run-up to the announcement of the Official Selection of the 71st Festival de Cannes, to be held on Thursday, April, 12th at 11am, discover the Short films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2018. The selection committee has viewed 4240 shorts. High-profile films in the lineup include The Nap… It’s stripped-down, but never feels empty. Kept at centre frame, the dissenting voicesof her father and teacher pull at her from off screen, stretching her psychically and mentally. Short films (between 1 and 35 minutes) can be registered for the Short Film Corner: a meeting place dedicated to short films within the Festival de Cannes. Shot in a cropped ratio, the film locks in its protagonist – a young girl, Yu, being forced into gymnastics – from the very start. Another animation proved to be a highlight in the Quinzaine: Movements by Dahee Jeong creatively and comically explores the relationships of movement and time between people, dogs, trees and the planet. Netflix has purchased worldwide distribution rights. “Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California” – by Jim Jarmusch (1993). Cannes Film Festival 2019 – all our coverage, The Digital Edition and Archive quick link. He creates a forest and later a farm, fashioning a Garden of Eden out of metal. Before “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” won the Palme d’Or in 2007, and before “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” won the Un Certain Regarde prize, Cătălin Mitulescu’s “Traffic” picked up the Palme d’Or du Court Métrage. 2020 Winners of Global Short Film Awards Cannes. 13- Submitting your movie, you authorize INDIE SHORTS AWARDS CANNES to use, distribute and share the film poster, trailer, synopsis and movie stills in our social media. Cannes – Palme d’Or – Best Short Film. Best Cannes Short Films | Short of the Week. It’s a diesel-smelling dream that’s worthy of both accolades. “When the Day Breaks” – by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (1999). Best Micro Experimental Short Film A Sunny Day Natalie Kerman Spain Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes 2016-2021 10. It begins with an Adam made of metal, folded from a large wire coil.