A focus on French short films that were selected during November at 20 international festivals supported by Unifrance.
🏆 Awards for French short films 🏆
➡️ French animation triumphed once again, winning no less than 10 awards and mentions at Cinanima in Portugal
- Grand Prize for Best International Short: Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
- Special Jury Prize: Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź
- Grand Prize Cinanima 2025 Student Film: Between the Gaps by Martin Bonnin
- Best Sound Design: Hurikán by Jan Saska
- Audience Award and Best Screenwriting: Because Today is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães
- Special Mention: Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières
- Two Special Mentions (International Competition Student Films): Tonada de l’hirondelle by Daniela Godel and Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan
- Best Artistic Direction: Society of Clothes by Dahee Jeong
➡️ An award at the Czech festival Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- In the section dedicated to immersive works, the Best VR Film was awarded to The Exploding Girl VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
➡️ A short wins a prize at Kuki Film Festival in Berlin
- The Best Children's Film (4+ and 6+) Award went to Capybaras by Alfredo Soderguit
➡️ Still in Berlin, Interfilm Festival awarded three French works
- Best Animation: God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
- Best Live Action: Boléro by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
- Best German Film 2nd Prize: My Brother, My Brother by Abdelrahman Dnewar and Saad Dnewar
➡️ In Montreal, two French works received awards at Cinémania
- Best International Short Film: Genealogy of Violence by Mohamed Bourouissa
- Special Mention: Black Tide by Kim Yip Tong
➡️ A project awarded at the ShorTO Film Market in Turin
- Chloé Wasp received the ADVISTA Film Marketing & Communication Award during ShorTO in Turin, for her documentary project Venus Carnivores
➡️ In England, at the Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF), French short films carried off four awards and mentions
- Best Documentary (Documentary Shorts Competition): Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault
- World Animation Competition Special Mention: God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
- Two Special Mentions (Documentary Shorts Competition): Cairo Streets by Abdellah Taïa and Daria's Night Flowers by Maryam Tafakory
✈️ The following people received travel funding ✈️
- Galiam Bruno Henry, director of the short Benchless, accompanied his film to Togo, to the Emergence festival in Lomé, where he also gave a class in actor training.
- Olivier Heitz was present for the world premiere of his film CLUB. INTERIOR. NIGHT at Black Nights in Estonia. “There was no shortage of industry events, with conferences on a variety of topics (selection processes, financing, etc.) and one-on-one meetings with programmers (Bolton, Tampere, Uppsala) and sales agents. In the evenings, there were casual get-togethers in a third venue to meet other directors and producers, plus cultural outings (city tours, swimming in the sea followed by a sauna, etc.). There was constant supervision, with a chaperone responsible for us throughout the stay."
- Shayma Awawdeh accompanied her film Intersecting Memory to the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
- Unifrance provided funding support allowing French professionals to participate in the ShorTO Film Market in Turin: Anne Berjon (Mondina Films), Léo Granger (Haïku Films), Nicolaï Iarochenko (Les Steppes Productions), Juliette Louchart (Fløw), and Gaëtan Trigot (Pentacle Productions)
And in partnership with the Cannes Short Film Corner (Focus SCRIPT), Unifrance also supported the presence of Chloé Wasp, for her documentary project Venus Carnivores: "I was invited as part of ‘You Only Pitch Twice.' I appreciated the organization, I was well prepared for the film market by pitch training sessions and information sent by email. The market setting is extremely beautiful and luxurious, we are welcomed in historic monuments in the center of Turin by a pleasant and warm team."
🔹 All the selections 🔹
🇵🇹 Cinanima
International Competition
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa
- Because Today is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães
- Ira by Rozenn Busson
- Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
- Scars We Love by Raphaël Jouzeau
- Sulaimani by Vinnie Ann Bose
- Shadows by Rand Beiruty
- Hurikán by Jan Saska
- Society of Clothes by Dahee Jeong
- Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières
Student Films Competition
- Between the Gaps by Martin Bonnin
- Tonada de l’hirondelle by Daniela Godel
- Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan
All Aboard Competition
🇩🇪 DOK Leipzig
International Documentary Competition
Doc Alliance Award
Kids DOK Program
Retrospective
- Love by Réka Bucsi
Special Program
DOK Neuland
🇨🇿 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Fascinations Competition
Short Films - Short Joy
- Do Rocks Dream of Flying? by Simon Zorraquin and Mathieu Ciulla
Immersive Works - Virtual Reality
- D-Day: The Camera Soldier by Chloé Rochereuil
- The Exploding Girl VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
Constellations
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds by fleuryfontaine, Galdric Fleury, and Antoine Fontaine
- L'mina by Randa Maroufi
- Sandia by Mélissa Faivre
Special Program
🇩🇪 Kuki Festival
Children's Competition
- Capybaras by Alfredo Soderguit
- Mealitancy by Marie Royer and Zinia Scorier
- So Long Belleville by Adam Hegazy
Youth Competition
- Because of (U) by Tohé Commaret
- Acrobats by Éloïse Alluyn, Hugo Danet, Anna Despinoy, Antonin Guerci, Alexandre Marzin, and Shali Reddy
- Gioia by Nixon Singa
- La Mort du petit cheval by Gabrielle Selnet
- Head Elsewhere by Madalena Valencia
- Mealitancy by Marie Royer and Zinia Scorier
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa
- Shadows by Rand Beiruty
🇩🇪 Interfilm Berlin
International Competition
- Boléro by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
- As if the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up by Natalia León
- Bleu Heart by Samuel Suffren
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
- La Mort du petit cheval by Gabrielle Selnet
- Paradise Garden by Sonia Terrab
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
National (German) Competition
Documentary Competition
Green Film Competition
European Audience Award Competition
- Percebes by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves
- Two People Exchanging Saliva by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata
Eject Competition
Parallel Sections
- Don’t Wake the Sleeping Child by Kevin Aubert
- Because of (U) by Tohé Commaret
- Percebes by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves
- Hold Me Tight by Léoluna Robert-Tourneur
- Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez
- The Devil and the Bicycle by Sharon Hakim
- Noon, the Bread from Tehran by Roshan Roshanak
- Uncle Thomas by Regina Pessoa
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
- Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault
Fulldome
🇨🇦 Cinemania
Official Competition
- Fort comme un lion by Nathan Villanneau
- To Arms, Christopher by Élise Amblard
- In the Mud by Andy Buron
- En beauté by Rémi Mardini
- Genealogy of Violence by Mohamed Bourouissa
- Windy Day by Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Élise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, and Camille Truding
- Life With an Idiot by Theodore Ushev
- Last Snows by Sarah Henochsberg
- The Boy Who Cheated Death by Pipou Phuong Nguyen
- Trek Salama by Naoile Ji
Tribute to Morocco
- The Departure by Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
- Shadow of the Butterflies by Sofia El Khyari
- Milk Brothers by Kenza Tazi
- So What if the Goats Die by Sofia Alaoui
🇹🇬 Emergence Lomé
International Competition
🇬🇧 Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF)
Louis le Prince Competition
- Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites by Chheangkea
- Métae by Élisabeth Caravella
- I'm Glad You're Dead Now by Tawfeek Barhom
- Bleu Heart by Samuel Suffren
- Dancing Pigeons by Christofer Nilsson
- Don’t Wake the Sleeping Child by Kevin Aubert
- The Spectacle by Bálint Kenyeres
- We Had Fun by Linda Lô
International Animation Competition
Documentary Competition
- Cairo Streets by Abdellah Taïa
- Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault
- +10K by Gala Hernández López
- Daria's Night Flowers by Maryam Tafakory
🇪🇪 Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn
Animation Competition
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
- Because Today is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães
- The Mud under my window by Violette Delvoye
- Strange Teen Spirit by Frank Ternier
- Kabuki by Tiago Minamisawa
- Life With an Idiot by Theodore Ushev
- With Tapes and Toasts in the Car by Kiana Naghshineh
- Dark Globe by Donato Sansone
- To the Woods by Agnès Patron
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
- I Am Not Here Anymore by Nawojka Wierzbowska
- Il Burattino e la balena by Roberto Catani
- Ordinary Life by Yoriko Mizushiri
- Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières
Kids Animation Competition
- The Empty Panel by Thibault Chollet
- Le Petit et le Géant by Isabela Costa
- Birds of Paradise by Tomek Ducki
- The Drifting Guitar by Sophie Roze
Live Action Competition
- Because of (U) by Tohé Commaret
- Dammen by Grégoire Graesslin
- Some of You Fucked Eva by Lilith Grasmug
National Competition
Doc@Shorts
Panorama
- Fleurs de Malva by Anna Lys, Rémy Berlemont, Alice Hamel, Chen-Yun H, Ludivine Lebourg, Estelle Martin, and Agathe Ribout
- Siham's daughter by Marianne Barakat
Special Program
Short Films - Shorts Alternative
- Skin Flick by Louise Bailly, Daniela Del Castello, Alice Levy, Bruno De Mendonça, Elifsu Meric, and Joey Quoc Tran
- The Fall by Maxime Tevissen, Tom Alcamo, Hugo Hannache, Dylan Cam, Alexandre Velves, Titouan Kervajan, and Yaëlle Alberti
- Homunculus by Bonheur Suprême
Short Films - Night Cinema
Short Films - Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation
- The Rossini Garden by William Burger, Siméon Jacob, Odelia Laine, Garance Mondamert, Tara Rewal, Mathilde Vergereau, and Arthur Wong
Short Films - Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action
- The Blade, The Wound by Lucas Minier
🇮🇹 ShorTO Film Market
XR Content
- Champ de bataille by François Vautier
- Less Than 5gr of Saffron by Negar Motevalymeidanshah
- Danse Danse Danse - Matisse by Gordon and Agnès Molia
🇨🇭 Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)
Immersive Experiences Competition
- The Island of Shells by Hao-Yuan Chang, Shiue-Ying Wei, and Chia-Wen Ko
- This Is y Heart by Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies
- The Exploding Girl VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
- La Magie Opéra by Jonathan Astruc
- Less Than 5gr of Saffron by Negar Motevalymeidanshah
🇨🇦 Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM)
Short Films - Short and Mid-Length Film Competition
Short Films - National Short and Mid-Length Film Competition
🇪🇸 Zinebi
International Competition
- Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières
- The Fall by Maxime Tevissen, Tom Alcamo, Hugo Hannache, Dylan Cam, Alexandre Velves, Titouan Kervajan, and Yaëlle Alberti
- Slet 1988 by Marta Popivoda
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa
- Boa by Alexandre Dostie
- Bleu Heart by Samuel Suffren
- Agapito by Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero
Special Program
- Clamor by Salomé Da Souza
- The Man Who Couldn't Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević
- The Exploding Girl by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
- Wander to Wonder by Nina Gantz
🇪🇸 Alcine
European Competition
- Because Today is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
- Free Drum Kit by Carmen Leroi
- The Empty Panel by Thibault Chollet
- The Roe Deer by Delphine Priet-Mahéo
- Montsouris Park by Guil Sela
- The Spectacle by Bálint Kenyeres
- Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault
National Competition
Alcine Kids
European Audience Award
Languages in Short Films
- Corps en chute by Nicolas Schönberger
- Jeanne et Jean Jean by Thanys Martin
- Skin Flower by Lisa Chabbert and Pauline Lebellenger
- Yuck! by Loïc Espuche
- Layla by Oscar Baron and Emma Ferréol
Special Program
- Percebes by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves
- Two People Exchanging Saliva by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata
- Playing God by Matteo Burani
Alcine Junior
- The Story of Three Sisters (or How the World Came to Have Four Seasons Instead of One) by Raphaëlle Bourgon, Anchi Huang, Vega Lázaro, Son Tra Le, Priyam Parikh, Jianuo Wen, and Di Wu
- Yuck! by Loïc Espuche
- How to Make a Friend by Jinfei Ge, Bing He, Myrtille Huet, Julie Jarrier-Stettin, and Yuqiang Zhang
- The Day You Were Gone by Emeline Anne, Léa Bourbouze, Camille Cujaube, Zoé de Groote, and Alexandre Jacques
🇪🇸 L'Alternativa
International Competition
Special Program
- Le Remord by René Vautier and Nicole Le Garrec
- Techniquement si simple by René Vautier
- Les Trois Cousins by René Vautier
- Les Ajoncs by René Vautier
🇪🇸 Gijón International Film Festival
International Competition
Crossroads
Special Program
FICX Premiere
🇮🇹 Festival Dei Popoli
Discoveries Competition
Popoli for Kids & Teens
- Once Upon a Time in Dragonville by Marika Herz
- Simply Divine by Mélody Boulissière and Bogdan Stamatin
- A Stone in the Shoe by Éric Montchaud
Doc at Work Future Campus
Special Programs
- Carnival in the Sahel by Sarah Maldoror
- Homunculus by Bonheur Suprême
- Fogo, l’île de feu by Sarah Maldoror
- Léon G. Damas by Sarah Maldoror
- "Electric Storm" 100 Years of Theremin by Marie Losier
- Aimé Césaire – Le Masque des mots by Sarah Maldoror
- Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams by Marie Losier
- Ana Mercedes Hoyos by Sarah Maldoror
- Louis Aragon, a Mask in Paris by Sarah Maldoror
- Barking in the Dark by Marie Losier
- And the Dogs Were Quiet by Sarah Maldoror
- Felix in Wonderland by Marie Losier
- Portrait of Assia Djebar by Sarah Maldoror
- Vlady by Sarah Maldoror
🇳🇱 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
International Competition
- An Open Field by Teboho Edkins
- My Sister's Room by Pauline Doméjean
- Manuscript for Debris by Danielle Kaganov
- Intersecting Memory by Shayma Awawdeh
- Triangle by Anaël Dang
Luminous
Best of Fests
- Solenopsis invicta by Victor Missud
- +10K by Gala Hernández López
- L'mina by Randa Maroufi
- Some of You Fucked Eva by Lilith Grasmug
IDFA DocLab Program & Competition
Immersive Works - DocLab Competition
- The Odeus by Thomas Vanz
- Another Place by Domenico Singha Pedroli
- The Exploding Girl VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
Dead Angle: Institutions
Top 10
- Monangambééé by Sarah Maldoror
🇨🇭 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
International Competition
- L'mina by Randa Maroufi
- Agapito by Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero
- Solenopsis invicta by Victor Missud
- Some of You Fucked Eva by Lilith Grasmug
- Loynes by Dorian Jespers
- Boa by Alexandre Dostie
- A South Facing Window by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds by fleuryfontaine, Galdric Fleury, and Antoine Fontaine
- Liberty Box by Jean-Baptiste Georjon
- Like a Fairy Tale by Kirill Khachaturov
- Daria's Night Flowers by Maryam Tafakory
- The Man in White by Haman Foulad Vand
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