A look back at the French short films that traveled internationally in January, to three festivals supported by Unifrance.
🏆 Awards for French shorts 🏆
➡️ At the Minimalen Short Film Festival in Norway, three French works received awards
- Best Film in the International Competition went to Daria's Night Flowers by Maryam Tafakory
- Honorable Mention in the Nordic Competition went to Pirateland by Stavros Petropoulos
- Best Film in the International Competition of the Multiplié Dance Film strand went to Bolero.s by Mehdi Kerkouche
➡️ In Australia, Flickerfest, a pioneering festival dedicated to short films, awarded two French works
- Honourable Mention of the Jury for International Short Film went to Smells Like Kids Spirit by Aude Pépin and to Vultures by Dian Weys.
✈️ The following people received travel funding ✈️
- Samuel Suffren, director of Bleu Heart, presented his film at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Aude Pépin (photo above) accompanied her film Smells Like Kids Spirit, presented at Flickerfest.
🔹 All the selections 🔹
2026 kicked off with a fine selection of French short films presented at three partner festivals.
🇳🇴 In Norway, the Minimalen Short Film Festival presented 16 French shorts across the festival's various strands.
International Competition
- Dammen by Grégoire Graesslin
- Earth Coal by Bastien Dupriez
- As if the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up by Natalia León
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
- Vultures by Dian Weys
- L'mina by Randa Maroufi
- The Spectacle by Bálint Kenyeres
- Genealogy of Violence by Mohamed Bourouissa
- Daria's Night Flowers by Maryam Tafakory
Special Screenings
- Algues noires by Nathan Vaillant
- +10K by Gala Hernández López
- Night and Fog by Alain Resnais
- What Mary Didn't Know by Konstantina Kotzamani
- Zero for Conduct by Jean Vigo
Multiplié Dance Film
Nordic Competition
🇺🇸 In the USA, the prestigious Sundance Film Festival presented four French works.
Short Film Program
- Faux bijoux by Jessy Moussallem
- Bleu Heart by Samuel Suffren
- I'm Glad You're Dead Now by Tawfeek Barhom
- Um by Nieto
🇦🇺 In Australia, Flickerfest focused the spotlight on 13 French short films in four strands.
Best of International Shorts Competition
- Agapito by Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero
- Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup and Olivier Héraud
- Exam by Jan Naszewski
- I'm Glad You're Dead Now by Tawfeek Barhom
- Lady Attila by Apolline Andreys
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
- Smells Like Kids Spirit by Aude Pépin
- Vultures by Dian Weys
Rainbow Shorts
Parallel programs
- Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup and Olivier Héraud
- Hugs by Nicolas Fong
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