We have a winner! Lucas Acher’s “Laser-Cat” has come out on top of La Cinef section at Cannes.
For its 29th edition, La Cinef has selected 14 live-action and 5 animated shorts from among the 2,750 sent by film schools all over the world.
Directed by 12 women and 9 men, they represent 15 countries and four continents. Two of the schools are invited for the first time: Hongik University (South Korea) and ISAMM (Tunisia).
Carla Simón has presided over the jury. She was joined by Park Ji-Min, Ali Asgari, Salim Kechiouche and Magnus von Horn.
“Thank you for making us travel around the world for making us feel wide range of emotions,” said Simón.
“You made us reflect about today, and we learned a lot about filmmaking. We wish you all long and prolific careers.”
The second prize was given to “Silent Voices” by Nadine Misong Jin (Columbia University, USA).
“We have always believed that the personal cannot be separated from the political, and this film is a great example of that,” said Park Ji-Min.
The third prize, ex aequo, went to Julius Lagoutte Larsen for “Never Enough” (La Fémis, France) and “Growing Stones, Flying Papers” by Roozbeh Gezerseh and Soraya Shamsi (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany).
Other selected films included “Sunday’s Children” by Reuben Hamlyn (NYU, USA), “Photograph of An Insane Woman to Show the Condition of Her Hair” by Arwen Aznag (Luca School of Arts Brussels, Belgium), and “Me, You and the Cow” by Aina Callejón (ESCAC, Spain).
Fanny Capu’s “Pickled” (NFTS, U.K.) was also selected, as well as “Bird Rhapsody” by Wonjung Choi (Hongik University, South Korea) and “Always Wanted to Be God, Never Wanted to Be Good” by Noa Epars and Marvin Merkel (HEAD, Switzerland), “Over the Threshold” by Tara Gajović (FDU, Serbia).
“Somewhere I Belong” by Youssef Handouse (ISAMM, Tunisia), “Axles” by Jakub Krzyszpin (The Polish National Film School in Łódź, Poland), “Our Secrets” by Lenti Liang (USC Cinematic Arts, USA), “Shadows of The Moonless Nights” by Mehar Malhotra (FTII, India) and “28 Days Left” by Yasmin Najjar (Aalto University, Finland) were also shown.
Rounding up the selection is “Left Behind, Still Standing” by Vida Skerk (BFTS, U.K.), “Where Fireflies Sparkle” by Clara Vieira (ESTC, Portugal) and “Will It Rain Again Today” by Wong Chau-Hong (Nihon University College of Art, Japan).
