Clarissa: The Biggest Nigerian Film at the 2026 Annual Cannes Film Festival
Clarissa is the second feature of the twin brothers,Arie and Chuko Esiri known for their award winning directorial feature, Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), of 2020 that was in official competition for the best feature at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany and other international film festivals.
Clarissa is the first Nigerian film to be selected for the annual Directors’ Fortnight and among the 19 international films selected for the 58th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight alongside the main 79th annual Cannes Film Festival taking place from 12 to 23 May 2026.
Clarissa was shot on 35mm across Lagos and Delta State in late 2025 with a budget of US$4 million. The film is an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 romantic novel, “Mrs Dalloway” in Nigerian version about the drama unfolding as a society woman, Clarissa prepares to host a party at her home in Lagos city, where she will unexpectedly encounter once-intimate friends from her youth. As the group reflects on their shared past over the course of a single night, memories of their intricate relationships, passionate love, hidden desires, and lost aspirations give rise to bittersweet reckoning.
Starring acclaimed Nigerian actress, Sophie Okonedo and actors,David Oyelowo, Ayo Edebiri, Toheeb Jimoh, and India Amarteifio, the English actress of Ghanaian and German ancestry.
The film has been acquired by Neon for global film distribution.
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No Nigerian Filmmaker is Among the Best and Greatest African Filmmakers
I am currently doing research on my article on "African Cinema in the Eyes of the World".
No Nigerian filmmaker is among the best and greatest filmmakers in African Cinema since 1925 to date. None of them is on the list of the to 10 African Filmmakers.
Only Newton Aduaka's multiple award winning film,"Ezra" that won the most prestigious award of the "Étalon d'or de Yennenga" (Golden Stallion of Yennenga) at the 2007 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou or FESPACO) (held biennially in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. "Ezra" also other sspecial awards; including the Oumarou Ganda Prize, given for the best first film, and the Paul Robeson Prize for the best film by a director of the African diaspora named in honour of the major 20th-century American actor, singer and civil rights activist in the United States.) and C.J Obasi's cinematic masterpiece, "Mami Wata", the 2023 sci-fi drama based on the mythology of Nigerian marine spirits are included in the best 100 African films so far.
"Mami Wata"'s cinematographer Lílis Soares won the Special Jury Prize in the World Dramatic Competition and won three awards at FESPACO - Prix de la Critique Paulin S. Vieyra (African Critics Award), Meilleure Image (Cinematography Award) and Meilleur Décor (Set Design Award).
The first African film to win international recognition was Sembène Ousmane's "La Noire de (Black Girl). It won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1966. Ousmane is recognized as the Father of African Cinema.
Only one African film has won the highly coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, "Chronicles of the Years of Fire" (1975) by Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina.
Then Mati Diop of Senegal became the only African woman to win the Grand Prix, the second-most prestigious award, for her film "Atlantics" in 2019.
"Tsotsi", a South African film is the first African film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006 actually, the first non-French language film from Africa to achieve this honor. It was directed by Gavin Hood, based on a novel by Athol Fugard.
The first African film to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival was "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha", a South African drama directed by Mark Dornford-May, in 2005.
"Dahomey, directed by Mati Diop won the Golden Bear at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in 2024, the first Black filmmaker to win the award.
No African films has won the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award. However, "Mother, Mother" by Somalian filmmaker K'naan Warsame did receive the FIPRESCI Jury Award in 2024.
The Golden Globes celebrated a century of Egyptian Cinema in 2021. I have been working on "A Century of Nigerian Cinema: from Palaver To Nollywood - 1926-2026".
- by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, The Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series, the first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry.
During the festival, two Honorary Palme d'Or were awarded: the first was awarded to Robert De Niro during the festival's opening ceremony and the second was awarded on short notice to Denzel Washington before the world premiere ofHighest 2 Lowest.
Complete List of Winners at the 78th Festival de Cannes
Jafar PANAHI won the highly coveted Palme d'Or for his film "UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT".
Jury
Documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Strong, presented its winners’ list among the 22 films presented in Competition this year.
Feature Films
Palme d’or UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT Jafar PANAHI
Grand Prix AFFEKSJONSVERDI (SENTIMENTAL VALUE) Joachim TRIER
Joint Jury Prize SIRÂT Oliver LAXE
SOUND OF FALLING Mascha SCHILINSKI
Best Director Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO for O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)
Best Screenplay Jean-Pierre DARDENNE & Luc DARDENNE for JEUNES MÈRES
Best performance by an actress Nadia MELLITI in LA PETITE DERNIÈRE directed by Hafsia HERZI
Best performance by an actor Wagner MOURA in O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT) directed by Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO
Special Award KUANG YE SHI DAI (RESURRECTION)
Bi GAN
Short Films
Palme d’or I’M GLAD YOU’RE DEAD NOW Tawfeek BARHOM
Special Mention ALI Adnan AL RAJEEV
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Prize LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO) Diego CÉSPEDES 1st film
Jury Prize UN POETA (A POET) Simón MESA SOTO
Best Directing Arab & Tarzan NASSER for Once Upon a Time in Gaza
Best Actor Frank DILLANE in Urchin directed by Harris Dickinson
Best Actress Cleo DIÁRA in O Riso e a Faca (I Only Rest in the Storm) directed by Pedro Pinho
Best Screenplay PILLION Harry LIGHTON 1st film
Caméra d’or Caméra d’or Prize THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE Hasan HADI Directors’ Fortnight
Special Mention MY FATHER’S SHADOW Akinola DAVIES JR Un Certain Regard
La Cinef First Prize FIRST SUMMER Heo GAYOUNG KAFA, South Korea
Second Prize 12 MOMENTS BEFORE THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY QU Zhizheng Beijing Film Academy, China
Joint Third Prize GINGER BOY Miki TANAKA ENBU Seminar, Japan
WINTER IN MARCH Natalia MIRZOYAN Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Superior Technical Commission
THE CST AWARD FOR BEST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN is presented to Ruben Impens, director of photography, and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer of ALPHA, directed by Julia Ducournau
The 2025 jury of the CST Award for best Artist-Technician acknowledges the powerful creativity of sound and image in this film, achieved by Ruben Impens, director of photography and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer, of Alpha directed by Julia Ducournau.
THE CST AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG FEMALE FILM TECHNICIAN is presented to Éponine Momenceau, Director of photography of CONNEMARA, directed by Alex Lutz
The 2025 jury of the CST Award for best Young, Female Film Technician is proud to present this year’s prize to Éponine Momenceau, director of photography of Connemara directed by Alex Lutz, for the delicacy and subtlety of the work on the images that accompany the film’s story and direction
Don't View Nollywood with the Rose-Tinted Glasses of Hollywood
I have previewed a new Nigerian drama on the psychological consequences of rape in the life of a teenage girl sexually violated by a Roman Catholic priest at a convent in south- eastern Nigeria.
If you replace the leading roles with the famous Hollywood icons, Nicole Kidman and John Travolta and have the location in America, the crime thriller will be nominated in the next Oscars for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress in a leading role, because of the accomplishments of the cast and crew in the production of the movie. But many Nigerian and other African movies have been viewed with the rose-tinted glasses of the American film industry, popularly called, Hollywood and in most cases, viewed by White Americans who did not understand the nuances of the peculiarities of Black Africans in dialogues and mannerisms.
Are there racial biases in international film acquisition and distribution with the superiority complex of white curators who esteem white filmmakers highly in comparison to black African filmmakers without comprehensive analysis of the content and context of subject and without the broad-minded considerations for diversity and inclusion in the existential dramas of life on earth?
"Our films are good enough for you, but your movies are not good enough for us. "
Is Hollywood the global standard for the best storytelling on motion picture?
The Economist published a selection called, "The Best Films So Far in 2024" without any consideration for the best movies so far in Bollywood and Nollywood on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Showmax and other streaming platforms, cable TV networks and cinemas.
I have seen many crappy Hollywood movies repeatedly shown on M-NET Movies Channels without any consideration for the viewers who paid for the subscriptions.
Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have paid over 200 percent more for the acquisitions of American and Korean films than what they paid for African films.
Showmax of the MultiChoice Group pays more for South African productions than Nigerian productions.
Are these differences in the valuations based on the quality of the movies or racial bias against black African filmmakers by Western standards? But the French are an exception to the stereotypical views of Africa by Hollywood, because the French have a better understanding of African Cinema than Hollywood and the British which can be seen in their broad-minded Official Selections of the annual Cannes Film Festival where several African filmmakers have won coveted awards, including the most coveted, the Palme d'Or.
Can a white curator of films understand the interpretations of the soundtracks of the Talking Drum in different scenarios of the scenes in the Yoruba political drama of "Saworoide", produced and directed by Tunde Kelani in 1999?
Can the curator understand the soundtracks of the great Ikoro drum of Igbo people in a film adaptation of Chinua Achebe's all time classic novel, "Things Fall Apart"?
What of the different lighting techniques in Nollywood and Hollywood?
Do you know that the sunlight is brighter in Africa than in America?
The sunlight is the same everywhere on earth?
The colour of the moonlight is more romantic on Bonny Island in the Niger Delta than on Long Island in southeastern New York State.
There are different hues and shades of the colours of the rainbow and the narratives of the movies should be viewed in the different perspectives of the origins of the filmmakers to see the big picture of the different stories of life on motion picture.
"The Black Book", the 2023 Nigerian crime thriller of Editi Effiong, starring Richard Mofe-Damijo, Sam Dede, Shaffy Bello, Femi Branch, Alex Usifo, Ade Laoye and Ireti Doyle, released to Netflix on September 22 was the number one on the global rankings and "Òlòtūré", the 2019 Nigerian crime drama on human trafficking by Kenneth Gyang starring Sharon Ooja, Beverly Osu, Ada Ameh and Blossom Chukwujekwu was on the top rankings in several countries and were better than several American and Korean films in accomplishments in filmmaking, but Netflix paid less for the acquisition.
I have always insisted that a great movie is a great movie no matter the location or race of the filmmaker. The quality of the content should determine the price for the acquisition and not the location or race of the producer.
---- By -By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,.
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series, The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry.
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Winner of the Palme d'Or the Other Winners
77th EDITION
May 14-25, 2024
Palme d’Or
ANORA
Directed by : Sean BAKER
Year of production: 2024
Country: United States
Duration: 138
"Anora, a young sex worker from
Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled."
https://www.festival-cannes.com/f/anora/#
Grand Prix
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Payal Kapadia
Jury Prize
EMILIA PÉREZ
Jacques Audiard
Best Director
MIGUEL GOMES
for Grand Tour
Special Award
MOHAMMAD RASOULOF
for The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was given a Special Prize for The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Best Performance by an Actor
JESSE PLEMONS
in Kinds of Kindness directed by Yórgos Lánthimos
Best Performance by an Actress
ADRIANA PAZ
in Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard
ZOE SALDAÑA
in Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard
KARLA SOFÍA GASCÓN
in Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard
SELENA GOMEZ
in Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard
Best Screenplay
THE SUBSTANCE
Coralie Fargeat
Short Films
Palme d’or
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT
Nebojša Slijepčević
Special Mention
BAD FOR A MOMENT
Daniel Soares
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Prize
BLACK DOG
by Guan Hu
Jury Prize
L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE
by Boris Lojkine
Best Director Prize ex-aequo
ROBERTO MINERVINI
for The Damned
RUNGANO NYONI
for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Best Performance by an Actress
ANASUYA SENGUPTA
in The Shameless
Best Performance by an Actor
ABOU SANGARÉ
in L’Histoire de Souleymane
Youth Award
HOLY COW
by Louise Courvoisier
1st film
Special Mention
NORAH
by Tawfik Alzaidi
1st film
Caméra d’or
ARMAND
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Un Certain Regard
Special Mention
MONGREL
Wei Liang Chiang & You Qiao Yin
La Cinef
First Prize
SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW…
Chidananda S Naik
Joint Second Prize
OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL
Asya Segalovich
THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND
Nikos Kolioukos
Third Prize
BUNNYHOOD
Mansi Maheshwari
Meet the 77th Festival winners - Festival de Cannes
The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival: Complete List of Winners
Official poster of the 76th Cannes Film Festival featuring actress Catherine Deneuve during a shooting of La Chamade (1968)
Opening film
Jeanne du Barry
Closing film
Elemental
The 76th annual Cannes Film Festival held from 16 to 27 May 2023.
The closing ceremony of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival took place on May 27 at 20.30 CEST (19.30 BST) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
Justine Triet became the third woman to win the Palme d'OR, after Jane Campion in 1993, and Julia Ducournau in 2021.
Her French courtroom drama tells the story of a writer accused of her husband's murder.
PALME D’OR
ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (ANATOMY OF A FALL) directed by Justine TRIET
GRAND PRIX
THE ZONE OF INTEREST directed by Jonathan GLAZER
BEST DIRECTOR
TRAN ANH Hùng for LA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT (THE POT-AU-FEU)
JURY PRIZE
KUOLLEET LEHDET (FALLEN LEAVES) directed by Aki KAURISMÄKI
BEST SCREENPLAY
SAKAMOTO Yuji for KAIBUTSU (MONSTER) directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Merve DIZDAR for KURU OTLAR USTUNE (ABOUT DRY GRASSES) directed by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Koji YAKUSHO for PERFECT DAYS directed by Wim WENDERS
SHORT FILMS
2023 winners' list
PALME D’OR
27 for Flóra Anna BUDA
SPECIAL MENTION
FÁR (INTRUSION) directed by Gunnur MARTINSDÓTTIR SCHLÜTER
UN CERTAIN REGARD
2023 winners' list
UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE
HOW TO HAVE SEX directed by Molly MANNING WALKER
JURY PRIZE
LES MEUTES (HOUNDS) directed by Kamal LAZRAQ
BEST DIRECTOR PRIZE
Asmae EL MOUDIR for KADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES)
NEW VOICE PRIZE
AUGURE (OMEN) directed by BALOJI
ENSEMBLE PRIZE
CROWRÃ (THE BURITI FLOWER) directed by João SALAVIZA & Renée NADER MESSORA
FREEDOM PRIZE
GOODBYE JULIA directed by Mohamed KORDOFANI
LA CINEF
2023 winners' list
FIRST PRIZE
NORWEGIAN OFFSPRING directed by Marlene Emilie LYNGSTAD
Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark
SECOND PRIZE
HOLE directed by HWANG Hyein
Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea
THIRD PRIZE
AYYUR (MOON) directed by Zineb WAKRIM
ÉSAV Marrakech, Morocco
CAMÉRA D'OR
2023 winners' list
BÊN TRONG VO KEN VANG (INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL) de THIEN AN PHAM
Directors’ Fortnight
L’ŒIL D'OR - YEAR OF THE DOCUMENTARY (EX ÆQUO)
2023 winners' list
LES FILLES D’OLFA directed by Kaouther BEN HANIA
KADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES) directed by Asmae EL MOUDIR
THE HIGHER TECHNICAL COMMISSION FOR SOUND AND IMAGES
2023 winners' list
The CST jury has awarded the CST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN AWARD 2023 to Johnnie Burn from the film THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Jonathan Glazer and the CST Young Film Technician Award to Anne-Sophie Delseries, head set designer for the film LE THÉORÈME DE MARGUERITE (MARGUERITE’S THEOREME) by Anna Novion.
Thanks to the delicacy of her work, Anne-Sophie Delseries succeeded in giving birth to a third character who is an essential part of the film’s narrative.
From Mati Diop To Alice Diop: Two French Senagalese Female Filmmakers Who Have Made History in Cannes and Venice
First it was Mati Diop, the French-Senegalese filmmaker whose first feature film "Atlantics" made her the first black female director to be in the Official Selection in competition for the Palme d'Or and won the Grand Prix equivalent of the silver prize at the 2019 annual Cannes Film Festival, making her the first black female director to win an award in Cannes' 72-year history. And another French Senegalese filmmaker, Alice Diop with the same surname has just made history as first black female filmmaker to win the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, for her first feature, "Saint Omer" and also the Lion of the Future LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS Venice Award for a debut film at the 79th annual Venice International Film Festival in 2022.
Mati Diop was born in Paris on June 22 in 1982 and Alice Diop was born in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France in 1979.
- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series.
The following is from an interview with Alice Diop on the making of "Saint Omer".
What led you to develop it as a narrative feature?
A documentary was never the plan. At the time, I was too busy with research, plus we couldn’t shoot in the courtroom and I would never [make the real participants] reenact the proceedings. Anyway, I wanted to recreate my experience of listening to another woman’s story while interrogating myself, facing my own difficult truths. The narrative had to trace a series of emotional states that can lead to catharsis. It’s like accelerated psychotherapy.
Global Top 10 on Netflix Begins on Netflix and Ends on Netflix
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Global Top 10 on Netflix begins on Netflix and ends on Netflix.
The popularity of a movie from the street to the internet is more about publicity than quality.
Yes, it is a basis for bragging rights, but if your movie makes the Global Top 10 of Netflix, but fails to qualify for the Official Selections of the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and fails to qualify for the nominations for the Academy Awards, you are still lagging behind the filmmakers who belong to that Ivy league of the best filmmakers in the world.
Moreover, Nollywood movies making the Global Top 10 have not stopped Netflix from losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers and not even up to 50, 000 of the millions of the followers and fans of the stars on Instagram have subscribed to Netflix to watch their movies, except clicks of Likes and Thumbs Up for movies they have only seen the trailers. Because if all of them subscribed, Netflix will be celebrating gaining millions of new subscribers in Nigeria and not lamenting over loss of millions of subscribers worldwide.
I rate and regard the outstanding filmmakers who have made official selections and nominations and won awards at major international film festivals above those who.have not done so, but competing for bragging rights, Likes and Views on Instagram.
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Founder/Producer,
Screen Naija YouTube Channel,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series,
the first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry,
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The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival of France ended Saturday night with all the glitz and razzmatazz of the most prestigious international film festival in the world.
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund won the coveted Palme d'Or at the 75th annual Cannes Film for his satirical drama, "Triangle of Sadness".
Östlund won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2017 with "The Square".
List of All the Winners
Palme d’Or: “Triangle of Sadness” by Ruben Östlund
Grand Prix: “Close” by Lukas Dhont and “Stars at Noon” by Claire Denis
Special Prize for Cannes’ 75th anniversary: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes, “Tori and Lokita”
Jury Prize: “Eo” and “Le Otto Montagne”
Best Actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, “Holy Spider”
Best Actor: Song Kang Ho, “Broker”
Best Director: Park Chan-wook, “Decision to Leave”
Best Screenplay: “Boy from Heaven”
Camera d’Or: “War Pony,” directed by Gina Gammell and Riley Keough
COMPETITION Les Amandiers, dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Holy Spider, dir: Ali Abbasi Crimes Of The Future, dir: David Cronenberg Stars At Noon, dir: Claire Denis Frère Et Soeur, dir: Arnaud Desplechin Tori And Lokita, dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Armageddon Time, dir: James Gray Close, dir: Lukas Dhont Broker, dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda RMN, dir: Cristian Mungiu Triangle Of Sadness, dir: Ruben Ostlund Showing Up, dir: Kelly Reichardt Decision To Leave, dir: Park Chan-wook Nostalgia, dir: Mario Martone Tchaikovski’s Wife, dir: Kirill Serebrennikov Boy From Heaven, dir: Tarik Saleh Leila’s Brothers, dir: Saeed Roustaee Eo, dir: Jerzy Skolimowski
UN CERTAIN REGARD *Les Pires, dirs: Lisa Akoka, Romane Gueret Burning Days, dir: Emin Alper *Metronom, dir: Alexandru Belc All The People I’ll Never Be, dir: Davy Chou Sick Of Myself, dir: Kristoffer Borgli Domingo And The Mist, dir: Ariel Escalante Meza *Plan 75, dir: Hayakawa Chie *Beast, dirs: Riley Keough, Gina Gammell Corsage, dir: Marie Kreutzer *Butterfly Vision, dir: Maksim Nakonechnyi The Silent Twins, dir: Agnieszka Smocynska The Stranger, dir: Thomas M Wright *Joyland, dir: Saim Sadiq *Rodeo, dir: Lola Quivoron Godland, dir: Hlynur Palmason
CANNES PREMIERE Nos Frangins, dir: Rachid Bouchareb Nightfall, dir: Marco Bellocchio Dodo, dir: Panos H Koutras Irma Vep (series), dir: Olivier Assayas
OUT OF COMPETITION Z (Comme Z), dir: Michel Hazanavicius Top Gun: Maverick, dir: Joseph Kosinski Elvis, dir: Baz Luhrmann Novembre, dir: Cédric Jimenez Three Thousand Years Of Longing, dir: George Miller Mascarade, dir: Nicolas Bedos
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS Hunt, dir: Lee Jung-Jae Moonage Daydream, dir: Brett Morgen Fumer Fait Tousser, dir: Quentin Dupieux
SPECIAL SCREENINGS All That Breathes, dir: Shaunak Sen The Natural History Of Destruction, dir: Sergei Loznitsa Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, dir: Ethan Coen
*Denotes first film, eligible for the Camera d’Or
2022 Short films and La Cinef Selections
The Short Film Palme d'or will be awarded on Saturday, May 28 during the closing ceremony of Cannes Film Festival.
TSUTSUE Amartei Armar
Ghana/France - 15'
PO SUI TAI YANG ZHI XIN (A SHORT STORY) Bi Gan
China - 15'
LORI (MELANCHOLY OF MY MOTHER'S LULLABIES) Abinash Bikram Shah
Nepal/Hong Kong - 14'
HAI BIAN SHENG QI YI ZUO XUAN YA (THE WATER MURMURS) Story Chen/China - 14'
UOGOS (CHERRIES) Vytautas Katkus
Lithuania/Italy - 15'
SAME OLD Lloyd Lee Choi
United States - 15'
LE FEU AU LAC (FIRE AT THE LAKE) Pierre Menahem
France - 15'
GAKJIL (PERSONA) Sujin Moon
South Korea - 6'
LUZ NOCTURNA (NIGHT LIGHT) Kim Torres
Costa Rica/Mexico - 14'
For its 25th edition, La Cinef has selected 13 live-action and 3 animated shorts directed by 6 male directors and 10 women directors, from among the 1,528 submitted by film schools all over the world.
The 3 La Cinef prizes will be handed at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 26 May, in the Buñuel Theatre.
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