Following the announcement of the jury and the list of short films running for the 2021 Palme d'Or, Shortrade collected all the details that you need about these gems that will premiere on the Croisette next July: synopsis, production companies, sales agents, etc.
THE SHORT FILMS COMPETITION 2021:
Severen Pol (North Pole)
Directed by Marija Apcevska
Production: Kino Oko; Servia Film; Forgrade; Tivoli Production (North Macedonia, Serbia)
Misty field, crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her virginity, she will finally find her place.
Pa Vend (Displaced)
Directed by Samir Karahoda
Production: SK Pictures (Kosovo)
Distribution & International sales: Radiator IP Sales
15'
In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local players wander from one obscure location to another carrying with them the only possession of the club: their tables.
Det Er I Jorden (In The Soil)
Directed by Casper Kjeldsen
Production: Snowglobe Film (Denmark)
14'
Karoline’s life is turned upside down when her father, Kjeld, manically starts digging a pit in their backyard. The following days turn into a living nightmare as the pit becomes a grave and the land, which has been in the family for generations, pulls Kjeld further and further down into the deep.
Orthodontics
Directed by Mohammadreza Mayghani
Production: Menisn Film Production (Iran)
14'
Amitis is a teenage girl who always has an orthodontics headgear and under the pressure of orthodontic treatment. But suddenly she does a strange thing with her friend Sara.
Haut Les Coeurs (The Right Words)
Directed by Adrian Moyse Dullin
Production, Distribution & International sales: Punchline Cinéma (France)
15'
Kenza 15 years old and her little brother Mahdi regularly humiliate one another on social media in cruel ways. Today, as they travel by bus, Kenza puts her brother to the test : to profess his love for Jada; a girl that Mahdi loves but that does not know him.
Noite Turva (Through The Haze)
Directed by Diogo Salgado
Production: Continue Walking (Portugal)
International sales: Agencia - Portuguese Short Film Agency
14'
Birds fly over two kids playing by the lake. The disappearance of one dims the night of the other.
Sideral
Directed by Carlos Segundo
Production: Les Valseurs; O Sopro Do Tempo; Casa Da Praia (Brazil, France)
Distribution & International sales: Les Valseurs
15'
In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.
Tian Xia Wu Ya (All The Crows In The World)
Directed by Yi Tang
Produced by Yi Tang (Hong Kong)
14'
18-year-old school girl Shengnan enters a night of adventure in adults' world.
Céu De Agosto (August Sky)
Directed by Jasmin Tenucci
Production: AmorDoch Filmes, Substancia Filmes (Brazil, Iceland)
16'
As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to a neo-Pentecostal church.
Xue Yun (Absence)
Directed by Lang Wu
Production: Shanghai Turan Movie; Haikou Qing Lan Vision And Art Development (China)
International sales: Yilisoo Films
15'
On the way back to Ying Ge Hai, a pair of former lovers remain discrete regarding their respective life and tacitly restrict everything to the present…
As a reminder, the jury that will choose the Short Film Palme d'Or winner on July the 17th will be made of Kaouther Ben Hania (director/writer, Tunisia), Tuva Novotny (director/writer/actress, Sweden), Alice Winocour (director/writer, France), Sameh Alaa (director/producer/writer, Egypt), Carlos Muguiro (filmmaker/teacher, Spain) and Nicolas Pariser (director/screenwriter, France).
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