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  • La Cinef

The Jury has announced the winners of the 29th La Cinef Selection

The Short Films and La Cinef Jury presided by Carla Simón and comprised of Ali Asgari, Salim Kechiouche, Ji-Min Park and Magnus von Horn has awarded the 2026 La Cinef Prizes during a ceremony held in Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.

La Cinef consisted of 19 student films, chosen out of 2 747 films submitted from 662 film schools around the world.

First Prize

LASER-GATO (Laser-Cat)
directed by Lucas Acher
NYU, USA

Second Prize

SILENT VOICES
directed by Nadine Misong Jin
Columbia University, USA

Joint Third Prize

ALDRIG NOK (Never Enough)
directed by Julius Lagoutte Larsen
La Fémis, France

 

GROWING STONES, FLYING PAPERS
directed by Roozbeh Gezerseh & Soraya Shamsi
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany

 

Awards

The Festival de Cannes allocates a €15,000 grant for the First Prize, €11,000 for the Second and €7,500 for the Third.

 

Rerun in Paris

The awarded films will be screened at the Cinéma du Panthéon on Tuesday June 2 at 6 p.m.

(more information about the rerun of films on the website of the festival next week).

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