Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Short Film (Winners)
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- DirectorFlóra Anna BudaStarsNatasa StorkÁdám FeketeFranciska FarkasAlice lives at her parents' place at the age of 27 with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it's time to move out.
- DirectorStory ChenStarsRongxi LiAnnabel YaoTaiwen ZhangWhen an asteroid hits the Earth leading to underwater volcanic eruptions, the inhabitants of a small riverside town start to flee inland. Before she leaves, Nian decides to say goodbye to her childhood friend.
- DirectorYi TangStarsXuanyu ChenBaohe Xue18-year-old school girl Shengnan enters a night of adventure in the adults' world.
- DirectorSameh AlaaStarsNourhan AhmedYousef ElrashidySeif HemedaAfter an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsIoko Ioannis KotidisNikos ZeginoglouTwo strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking money to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
- DirectorCharles WilliamsStarsYared ScottMandela MathiaHelen HailuAn adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.
- DirectorQiu YangStarsShuxian LiFrank SunYaning DingIn a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing refuses to go gentle into this good night.
- DirectorJuanjo Giménez PeñaStarsLali AyguadéNicolas RicchiniVicente GilLuna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day.
- DirectorEly DagherStarsElie BassilaDisillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he eventually loses track and finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.
- DirectorSimón Mesa SotoStarsAlejandra Montoya VillaHector OrregoLeidi lives with her mom and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn't shown up in days. That sunny morning, after she bathed her baby, Leidi was sent by her mother to buy plantains. She meets a guy that tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl. She forgets about bringing home the plantains and embarks on a journey to find him. Leidi won't return home until she finds the father of her child.
- DirectorByoung-gon MoonStarsLee Min-jiTaeyoung KangHyungyu KimThe story of a female student working as a cashier in an illegal casino.
- DirectorL. Rezan YesilbasStarsBelçim BilginCem BenderThe prison of Diyarbakir, the setting of the story, is like the symbol of the torture experienced in the prisons in Turkey after the coup d'etat of 1980. However, in this story, I did not choose to tell the things that took place in the prison, or the political prisoners or the torture, or the political fight. Instead, I turned my camera to the little stories of the "silent" women outside the prison, who could not speak another language than Kurdish, which was forbidden in the prisons of that era.
- DirectorMaryna VrodaStarsEgor AgarkovNastya DynaevaMasha TkatchenkoFirst a boy is forced to run. Then he runs on his own. Then he watches another one run.
- DirectorSerge AvedikianConstantinople, 1910. There are too many stray dogs in the streets. The newly installed government, influenced by an occidental model of society, calls in European specialists to get rid of the dogs, before deciding, finally, to deport 30.000 of them on a desert island, off the coast of the city. We follow the forced exile through the eyes of a female dog and of the policeman who puts her in a cage, then witness the abandonment and death throes of 30 000 dogs who will die of starvation and thirst.
- DirectorJoão SalavizaStarsCarloto CottaRodrigo MadeiraRafael SardoA young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to find the kids who took his money and maybe give them a lesson. But with those actions, comes the reflection of how things were and are in this place filled with violence and hostility. Is change possible?
- DirectorMarian CrisanStarsMaxim Adrian StrinuGabriela CrisuDamian Victor OanceaIt's Maxim's birthday. He's 8 years old. He lives together only with his mother in a village not so close to the big city. For his birthday, his mother will take him to Bucharest, to McDonald's. There, Maxim hopes to meet his father.
- DirectorElisa MillerStarsDiego CatañoMiriam Chi ChimSofía EspinosaJonah and Sofia, two inseparable friends, spend their days wandering through the small town where they were born; However, when Sofia decides to leave that small world, Jonah will have to struggle between familiarity and the unknown.
- DirectorBobbie PeersStarsDanny SchlesingerKristin Krogh SissenerOle Ivar RudiOne morning, in a gravity-less surreal world, a "sniffer" at a deodorant factory, one morning has to be saved from the ceiling by his wife.
- DirectorIhor StrembitskyiWayfarers is a series of impressionistic documentary portraits of people in a senior citizen's home and in a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv.
- DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsBogdan DumitracheMaria DinulescuAna BartStuck in heavy traffic, a Romanian businessman heading for an important meeting kills time in the most mundane and improvised ways, from facing personal responsibilities to making random acquaintances.
- DirectorGlendyn IvinStarsEdith CattellPeter DerrickDamon KaineEddie spends her pocket money collecting firecrackers, to prepare for Cracker Night. This key moment will live on in Eddie's memory, transforming her for life.
- DirectorPéter MészárosStarsBalázs HoresnyiJudit Viktor
- DirectorRaymond RedStarsEddie GarciaRonnie LazaroJohn ArcillaIn Manila, a solitary man from a far-away province lives in poverty. The only thing he has is a camera, and he stays at churches hoping people will hire him to take their photographs. During one day, he has three encounters that change his life: the first, with a smooth-talking young man who's standing by the church door who berates him for wasting his life in church, the second with a boy who offers to take his picture, and the third with a Mercedes-driving man who's been stuck in traffic and has no patience left. Is there any deliverance from the soullessness of the city?
- DirectorAmanda ForbisWendy TilbyA chance encounter, a juicy yellow lemon and an unfortunate twist of fate will reveal that the symbiotic relationship between people is inextricable.
- DirectorXavier GiannoliStarsMathieu AmalricJean-Marie WinlingSophie VarillonJulien Bernardini, a young French journalist, is planning to do an interview by now aged movie-star Ava Gardner, who lives secluded in her London mansion and who refuses any interview by phone. After a fastidious journey, Julien is finally getting to his long-awaited appointment, shaking at the idea of eventually meeting a living myth. But he soon discovers that he will actually have to interview the star through the intercom! What's more, Ava Gardner doesn't even remember her films, or hardly, and doesn't even feel like answering to any question. So much for the myth...
- DirectorTessa SheridanStarsMark BinmoreSophie McConnellBianca NicholasA woman dressed garishly in bubble-gum colors conducts an opinion survey about bubble gum consumer habits at a street market. Her interviewee, a girl of six or seven, is in turn determined, convinced, engaged, skeptical, annoyed, and distracted by other, more important things.
- DirectorMarcell IványiStarsSzilvia CzoborIlona SomogyiMargit GyovaiDuring a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This six-minute one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not.
- DirectorAleksey KharitidiA young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so - until a couple start playing badminton nearby.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraIn a subway station, a man watch a girl acting strange. He realizes that she may be attempting to commit suicide and tries to stop her, but the girl accuses him of being a molester.
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsIggy PopTom WaitsThis shortcut repeats the structure of Coffee and Cigarettes. This time, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits meet in a bar. But, again, we don't know why they agreed to do that in the first place, because they don't seem to know each other very well and they don't have much to talk about, so the conversation wanders idly and hilariously as they sip their coffee and smoke cigarettes.
- DirectorSam KarmannStarsDaniel RialetJacques MartialChristian RauthA commuter suddenly realizes he's mistakenly boarded the express train and desperately tries to get off between stations.
- DirectorAdam DavidsonStarsScotty BlochClebert FordBernard JohnsonA woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
- DirectorGilles CarleA series of very brief clips celebrates the 50th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada.
- DirectorGarri BardinA story of a wire man who carried the idea of protecting himself from people around him to an absurdity by turning his wife, dog into barbed wire and thus isolating himself from the surrounding world.
- DirectorLaurie McInnes
- DirectorJane CampionStarsTim PyeKatie PyeBen MartinA family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.
- DirectorSlav BakalovRumen PetkovA groom-to-be wakes up in the morning of his wedding to strange visions triggered by his impatience... Though the nuptial feast is in full flow, the groom is still daydreaming. On the wedding night, the bride ups and melts away before his eyes exhaling air as a deflated balloon...
- DirectorGérald FrydmanPierre LevieThe story of the bet of Leland Stanford , baron of the rail, on the gallop of the horse. He uses the photographer Eadweard Muybridge , who is developing a system to analyze the movement.
- DirectorArthur JofféStarsSimone CarleDominique PinonSylvie HuguelA little tale both cruel and nostalgic but determinedly comic, on the theme of triumphant jealousy.
- DirectorBéla VajdaShows an absurd picture of our never ending changing culture and history.
- DirectorOscar GrilloAnimated video to accompany the record of the same name, released under the pseudonym of Suzy and the Red Stripes, but in reality Wings' with Linda on lead vocals.
- DirectorRaoul ServaisStarsWill SpoorFran Waller ZeperSjoert SchwibethusAn unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsCharlotte Maury-SentierJean-Pierre SentierA short film about a couple who leave their home in New York City and spend the rest of their lives in a boat in the Atlantic Ocean.
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsA short animation about a sculptor and his sculpture.
- DirectorBarry GreenwaldStarsBob GreenAli KubikAlbert WilliamsA satirical parable on non-conformity and the rat race.
- DirectorGeoff DunbarToulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsElena ChepoyA castaway is interrogated by Interpol, conquered by an imperialist ship, loses his lone palm tree to greedy loggers, is consoled by a missionary who promptly abandons him, is thoroughly examined by scientists, and harassed by journalists.
- DirectorBretislav PojarBlocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape.
- DirectorJean ChapotStarsPierre RousseauGilles SégalIn December 1944, in the Ardennes countryside. An American soldier observes the surroundings and sees in his viewfinder the subtle play of a cat and a German soldier. A massacre follows .
- DirectorMirel Iliesiu
- DirectorJohn FernhoutAn urban and rural tour of Holland including canals, windmills, art, soaring through clouds, and a glimpse into the multi-seasonal Dutch life in the mid-1960s.
- DirectorNoel BlackStarsMichael MelMelissa MalloryGregg CarrollA group of young boys show their skateboarding skills around town, trying to impress each other. One boy keeps crashing into the girl on a bike so they decide to hang out instead. His friends don't understand his budding romance.
- DirectorJános VadászShort film about the creation of one single life.
- DirectorFrançois ReichenbachDocumentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher.
- DirectorEdmond SéchanStarsMarie MarcTells how a wispy old woman cultivates a potted string bean plant with a tender devotion akin to love and plants it in a row of blossoming white shrubs in the Tuileries Garden in Paris.
- DirectorRob GnantAlexander J. Seiler
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsRoger JacquetAnne CornalyAnker-Spang LarsenIn 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.
- DirectorCarlos VilardebóStarsJean NégroniA ten-minute film devoted to a spoon. It may appear surprising but the fact is this is not any spoon. It is actually a shadow spoon ancient Egyptians used for their dead, which not content to protect them from flies, was also supposed to keep their eyes open during their voyage to the other world. Carlos Vilardebo films it (and a few others of the type) with all the more fascination as it has the shape of a beautiful naked swimmer. In the end, the ten minutes spent looking at spoons seem - too short.
- DirectorSerge BourguignonStarsJean NégroniMichel BouquetIn the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kagi by Kon Ichikawa -- 'Le Sourire' won the Palm d'Or for Best Short Film in 1960. This quiet and intelligent film is a remarkable interpretation of a young monks perspective into a world of meditation, sacred geometry, and coming of age. A tribute to Buddhism, introspection and the wonders of nature...a short but lasting work of art.
- DirectorMiro BernatDrawings by the children of the Terezín ghetto, who were later executed by the Nazis.
- DirectorHenri GruelStarsPascal MazzottiCora VaucaireLéon CamyThis is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks of the Seine, in the streets, at a café. Enough to drive him up the wall!
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsSerge ReggianiQuotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver recovers a boy's lost bicycle. C'est la vie. It's "a river like any other". Sprightly accordion music rounds out the atmosphere.
- DirectorIon Popescu-GopoThis 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
- DirectorNorman McLarenThe surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsAlain EmeryLaurent RocheClan-ClanIn the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers.
- DirectorHerman van der HorstStarsG. Lugtenberg