Cannes Shorts 2022 english

Shorts Attack in May 2023

6 films in 82 minutes – A selection of the short film competitions of the Festival de Cannes 2022 with the winning film „The Water Murmurs“.

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The program:

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Evi Kalogiropoulou
Greece 2022 – Live Action – 15 min
Shipyard workers
A ban on physical contact in a dystopian workplace has turned interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch transformed the boatyard into charged landscape of alienation and sensuality beyond heteronormative desires.

 

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Amartei Armar
France, Ghana 2022 – Live Action – 15 min
In Ghana at the sea
Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition.

 

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Robert-Jonathan Koeyers
Netherlands 2022
Animation – 15 min
Memories with police
The fragmented portrait of a moment that would significantly change the lives of everyone present; told from the memories of the young girl Imani and the police officer David.

 

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Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard
Germany 2022
Live Action – 16 min
Water therapie
An incident occurs during a water therapy session meant to sooth Leon’s chronic cramps, one that will come to radically impact all aspects of his life over time.

 

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Sujin MOON
South Korea 2022
Animation – 6 min
Identitätsgroteske
A young woman slips into a second skin and her own reflection becomes a chimera. A surreal body horror animation about beauty ideals and the compulsion to fit into the image.

 

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Jianying Chen
China 2022 – Live Action – 15 min
Life journey
When an asteroid hits the Earth leading to underwater volcanic eruptions, the inhabitants of a small town start to flee inland. Before she leaves, Nian decides to say goodbye to her childhood friend. Her memories of the town start to become clearer.

 

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