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International foundation of filmmakers

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La Cinéfondation is a foundation under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers.

It was created in 1998 by Gilles Jacob. Since then it has developed complementary programmes to help achieve its goal. Today it is divided into three different parts: The Selection; The Residence; The Atelier.

The Selection

Each year, the Cinéfondation selects 15 to 20 short and medium-length films presented by film schools from all over the world. Cinéfondation's Selection () is a parallel section of the Official Selection of Cannes Film Festival.

Every year, more than 1,000 student films reach the Cinéfondation to present their film to la Sélection. This selection of films is projected at the Cannes Festival and presented to the Cinéfondation and Shorts Jury, which awards prizes to the best three at an official Festival ceremony.

Prize winners

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Year	Film	Director	Nationality of director
Jakub	Adam Guzinski	Poland	Premier Prix
The Sheep Thief	Asif Kapadia	United Kingdom	Deuxième Prix
Mangwana	Manu Kurewa	Zimbabwe	Troisième Prix
Second Hand	Emily Young	United Kingdom	Premier Prix
La Puce	Emmanuelle Bercot	France	Deuxième Prix
Im Hukim	Dover Kosashvili	Georgia - Israel
En God Dag at Go	Bo Hagen Clausen	Denmark	Troisième Prix
Inter-View	Jessica Hausner	Austria	Mention Spéciale
Five Feet High and Rising	Peter Sollett	United States	Premier Prix
Kiss it up to God	Caran Hartsfield	United States	Deuxième Prix
Kinu'Ach	Amit Sakomski	Israel
Indien	Pernille Fischer Christensen	Denmark	Troisième Prix
Cuoc Xe-Dem	Bui Thac Chuyên	Vietnam
Portrait	Sergei Luchishin	Russia	Premier Prix
Reparation	Jens Jonsson	Sweden	Deuxième Prix
Dai Bi	Yang Chao	China	Troisième Prix
Crow Stone	Alicia Duffy	United Kingdom
Um Sol Alaranjado	Eduardo Valente	Brazil	Premier Prix
Seule Maman a les Yeux Bleus	Eric Forestier	France	Deuxième Prix
K-G i Nod Och Lust	Jens Jonsson	Sweden
She'elot Shel Po'el Met	Aya Somech	Israel	Troisième Prix
Bezi Zeko Bezi	Pavle Vuckovic	Serbia	Premier Prix
Historia del Desierto	Celia Galán Julve	Spain	Deuxième Prix
TV City	Alberto Couceiro and Alejandra Tomei	Argentina	Troisième Prix
Rebeca a esas Alturas	Luciana Jauffred Gorostiza	Mexico
Happy Now	Frederikke Aspöck	Denmark	Premier Prix
Calatorie la Oras	Corneliu Porumboiu	Romania	Deuxième Prix
99 Vuotta Elämästäni	Marja Mikkonen	Finland
Fajnie, że jesteś	Jan Komasa	Poland	Troisième Prix
Buy It Now	Antonio Campos	Brazil, United States	Premier Prix
Vdvoyom	Nikolay Khomeriki	Russia	Deuxième Prix
Bikur Holim	Maya Dreifuss	Israel
La Plaine	Roland Edzard	Germany, France	Troisième Prix
Be Quiet	Sameh Zoabi	Palestine
Ge & Zeta	Gustavo Riet	Uruguay	Premier Prix
Mr. Schartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker	Stefan Mueller	Germany	Deuxième Prix
Mother	Sian Heder	United States	Troisième Prix
A Virus	Ágnes Kocsis	Hungary
Ahora Todos Parecen Contentos	Gonzalo Tobal	Argentina	Premier Prix
Ru Dao	Chen Tao	China	Deuxième Prix
A Reunion	Hong Sung-Hoon	South Korea	Troisième Prix
Minus	Pavle Vuckovic	Serbia
Hymnon	Elad Keidan	Israel	Premier Prix
Forbach	Claire Burger	France	Deuxième Prix
Stop	Park Jae-Ok	South Korea	Troisième Prix
Roadmarkers	Juho Kuosmanen	Finland
Bába	Zuzana Kirchnerová	Czech Republic	Premier Prix
Goodbye	Fang Song	China	Deuxième Prix
Diploma	Yaelle Kayam	Israel	Troisième Prix
Nammae Ui Jip	Jo Sung-hee	South Korea
Taulukauppiaat	Juho Kuosmanen	Finland	Premier Prix
Coucou-les-Nouages	Vincent Cardona	France	Deuxième Prix
The Fifth Column	Vatche Boulghourjian	Lebanon	Troisième Prix
Ja Vec Jesam Sve Ono Sto Zelim da Imam	Dane Komljen	Serbia
Der Brief	Doroteya Droumeva	Bulgaria	Premier Prix
Drari	Kamal Lazraq	Morocco	Deuxième Prix
Ya-gan-bi-hang	Son Tae-Gyum	South Korea	Troisième Prix
Doroga na	Taisia Igumentseva	Russia	Premier Prix
Abigail	Matthew James Reilly	United States	Deuxième Prix
Los Anfitriones	Son Tae-Gyum	Cuba	Troisième Prix
Needle	Anahita Ghazvinizadeh	United States	Premier Prix
Waiting for the Thaw	Sarah Hirtt	Belgium	Deuxième Prix
În Acvariu	Tudor Cristian Jurgiu	Romania	Troisième Prix
Pandy	Matúš Vizár	Slovakia	Troisième Prix
Skunk	Annie Silverstein	United States	Premier Prix
Oh Lucy!	Atsuko Hirayanagi	Japan - Singapore	Deuxième Prix
Sourdough	Fulvio Risuleo	Italy	Troisième Prix
The Bigger Picture	Daisy Jacobs	United Kingdom
Share	Pippa Bianco	United States	Premier Prix
Lost Queens	Ignacio Juricic Merillán	Chile	Deuxième Prix
The Return of Erkin	Maria Guskova	Russia	Troisième Prix
Victor XX	Ian Garrido López	Spain
Anna	Or Sinai	Israel	Premier Prix
In the Hills	Hamid Ahmadi	United Kingdom	Deuxième Prix
The Noise of Licking	Nadja Andrasev	Hungary	Troisième Prix
Paul is Here	Valentina Maurel	Belgium	Premier Prix
Animal	Bahman and Bahram Ark	Iran	Deuxième Prix
Deux Égarés Sont Morts	Tommaso Usberti	France	Troisième Prix
The Summer of the Electric Lion	Diego Céspedes	Chile	Premier Prix
Calendar	Igor Poplauhin	Russia	Deuxième Prix
The Storms in Our Blood	Shen Di	China
Inanimate	Lucia Bulgheroni	United Kingdom	Troisième Prix
Mano a mano	Louise Courvoisier	France	Premier Prix
Hiêu	Richard Van	United States	Deuxième Prix
Ambience	Wisam Al Jafari	Palestine	Troisième Prix
The Little Soul	Barbara Rupik	Poland
Catdog	Ashmita Guha Neogi	India	Premier Prix
My Fat Arse and I	Yelyzaveta Pysmak	Poland, Ukraine	Deuxième Prix
Contraindications	Lucia Chicos	Romania	Troisième Prix
I Want to Return Return Return	Elsa Rosengren	Germany
The Salamander Child	Théo Degen	Belgium	Premier Prix
Cicada	Yoon Daewoen	South Korea	Deuxième Prix
Love Stories on the Move	Carina-Gabriela Daşoveanu	Romania	Troisième Prix
Cantareira	Rodrigo Ribeyro	Brazil
A Conspiracy Man	Valerio Ferrara	Italy	Premier Prix
Somewhere	Li Jiahe	China	Deuxième Prix
Glorious Revolution	Masha Novikova	United Kingdom	Troisième Prix
Humans Are Dumber When Crammed up Together	Laurène Fernandez	France
Norwegian Offspring	Marlene Emilie Lyngstad	Denmark	Premier Prix
Hole	Hwang Hyein	South Korea	Deuxième Prix
Moon	Zineb Wakrim	Morocco	Troisième Prix
Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know...	Chidananda S Naik	India	Premier Prix
Out of the Window Through the Wall	Asya Segalovich	United States	Deuxième Prix
The Chaos She Left Behind	Nikos Kolioukos	Greece
Bunnyhood	Mansi Maheshwari	United Kingdom	Troisième Prix
First Summer	Heo Gayoung	South Korea	Premier Prix
12 Moments Before the Flag-Raising Ceremony	Qu Zhizheng	China	Deuxième Prix
Ginger Boy (Separated)	Miki Tanaka	Japan	Troisième Prix
Winter in March	Natalia Mirzoyan	Estonia
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The Residence

The Residence du Festival () is a programme for young international directors working on their first or second film. Each year twelve participants are selected and invited to live in Paris for four and a half months as they embark on a course designed to help them in the writing and production of their films, with help and support from film professionals.

The following 30 sessions have been conducted since the inception of the programme.

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Session number	Dates conducted	President of the jury
October 16, 2000 - February 24, 2001	Olivier Assayas	Caran Hartsfield, Marcell Ivanyi, Hanna Miettinen, Peter Sollett, Rachel Tillotson, Emily Young
March 1, 2001 - July 15, 2001	Laurie Collyer, Maximiliano Lemcke Gonzalez, Iwona Siekierzynska, Ilgon Song, Djamshed Usmonov, Ken Yunome
October 1, 2001 - February 13, 2002	Pascale Ferran	Newton Aduaka, Piotr Kielar, Lucrecia Martel, Michel Ange Quay, Aleksi Salmenperä, Nariman Turebayev
February 21, 2002 - June 30, 2002	Costa-Gavras	Alicia Duffy, Jens Jonsson, Emmanuel Kurewa, Sergeï Luchishin, Franco De Peña, Heng Tang
October 1, 2002 - February 12, 2003	André Delvaux	Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Edgar Bartenev, Anastas Charalampidis, Marc Hartmann, Diego Lerman, John Shank
February 27, 2003 - July 11, 2003	Francis Girod	Brahim Fritah, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Santiago Loza, Cath Le Couteur, Jinoh Park, Ulises Rosell, Dong-Il Shin
October 1, 2003 - February 11, 2004	Claire Denis	Veronica Chen, Kornel Mundruczó, Stephen Ellis, Karim Aïnouz, Marta Parlatore, Jacob Tschernia, Kirsi Marie Liimatainen
February 27, 2004 - July 10, 2004	Arnaud Desplechin	Hadar Friedlich, Céline Macherel, Vladimir Perisic, Jaime Rosales, Dorothée Van Den Berghe, Wang Bing
October 1, 2004 - February 12, 2005	Marion Vernoux	Tawfik Abu Wael, Celia Galan Julve, Brendan Grant, Nadine Labaki, Josué Méndez, Slava Ross
February 28, 2005 - July 10, 2005	Santiago Amigorena	Hernán Belón, Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, Noam Kaplan, Jeffrey St. Jules, Corneliu Porumboiu, Eduardo Valente
October 3, 2005 - February 12, 2006	Christine Laurent	Kim Hee-Jung, Raya Martin, Sameh Zoabi, Ben Hackworth, Santiago Palavecino, Mark Walker
February 28, 2006 - July 10, 2006	Bruno Dumont	Pablo Agüero, Amat Escalante, Kit Hui, Abay Kulbayev, Marianela Maldonado, Lucía Puenzo
October 2, 2006 - February 9, 2007	Rithy Panh	Antonio Campos, Natacha Feola, Babak Jalali, Sebastian Lelio, Alexis Dos Santos, Fien Troch
March 1, 2007 - July 17, 2007	Laurent Cantet	Rusudan Chkonia, Pelin Esmer, Mitra Farahani, Tan Chui Mui, Nadav Lapid, Milagros Mumenthaler
October 1, 2007 - February 15, 2008	Sébastien Lifshitz	Emilie Atef, Hagar Ben Asher, Barney Elliott, Xiaolu Guo, Rubén Imaz Castro, Pia Marais
March 3, 2008 - July 15, 2008	Gilles Jacob	Nikias Chryssos, Rebecca Daly, Manuel Nieto Zas, Adrian Sitaru, Francisco Vargas Quevedo, Yang Heng
October 1, 2008 - February 15, 2009	Babak Amini, Anna Faur, Aaron Fernandez, Alejandro Landes, Liew Seng Tat, Robin Weng
March 2, 2009 - July 15, 2009	Andreas Bolm, Julio Hernández Cordón, Yula Gidron, Rafael Kapelinski, Esteban Larrain, Martin Turk
October 1, 2009 - February 15, 2010	Paz Fabrega, Oliver Hermanus, Bani Khoshnoudi, Andrew Legge, Ioana Uricaru, Zhang Yue
March 1, 2010 - July 15, 2010	Daniel Joseph Borgman, Michel Franco, Cristián Jiménez, Yaelle Kayam, Franco Lolli, Dominga Sotomayor
October 1, 2010 - February 15, 2011	Chika Anadu, Fernando Guzzoni, Ronin Hsu, Rubén Mendoza, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Shahrabanoo Sadat
March 1, 2011 - July 15, 2011	Sivaroj Kongsakul, Julia Kozyreva, David Nawrath, Laszlo Nemes, Pramote Sangsorn, Bohdana Smyrnova
October 3, 2011 - February 15, 2012	Marí Alessandrini, René Ballesteros, Etienne Kallos, Mariko Saga, Christopher Murray, Felipe Sholl
March 1, 2012 - July 15, 2012	Jairo Boisier Olave, Alireza Khatami, Juliana Rojas, Jéro Yun, Pasquale Marino, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau
October 1, 2012 - February 15, 2013	Kamila Andini, Laura Astorga, Aygul Bakanova, Marina Meliande, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Jordan Schiele
March 1, 2013 - July 15, 2013	Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Rungano Nyoni, Adrián Saba, William Vega, Géraldine Zosso
October 1, 2013 - February 15, 2014	Giacomo Abbruzzese, Natalia Almada, Panayotis Christopoulos, Susan Gordanshekan, Hicham Lasri, Ma'ayan Rypp
March 3, 2014 - July 15, 2014	Caetano Gotardo, Gudmundur Gudmudsson, Sam Holst, Marcelo Martinessi, Marcela Saïd, Katarina Stankovic
October 1, 2014 - February 15, 2015	Alejandro Fadel, Damian John Harper, Hannaleena Hauru, Karim Moussaoui, Ruthy Pribar, Flora Lau
March 2, 2015 - July 15, 2015	Khadar Ahmed, Jonas Carpignano, Una Gunjak, Serhat Karaaslan, Gábor Reisz, Ernesto Villalobos
October 1, 2015 - February 15, 2016	Duccio Chiarini, Maya Da-Rin, Georgis Grigorakis, Zhou Hao, Déa Kulumbegashvili, Sebastián Schjaer
March 1, 2016 - July 15, 2016	Ali Asgari, Nuno Baltazar, Federico Cecchetti, Omar El Zohairy, Gregorio Graziosi, Ivan Ikić
October 3, 2016 - February 15, 2017	Lukas Dhont, Cenk Erturk, Takeshi Fukunaga, Zeno Graton, Caroline Monnet, Mees Peijnenburg
March 1, 2017 - July 15, 2017	Rati Tsiteladze, João Paulo Miranda Maria, JQIU Yang, Myrsini Aristidou, Carlo Sironi, Anwar Boulifa
October 2, 2017 - February 15, 2018	Mounia Akl, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Sharon Angelhart, Juan Sebastian Mesa, Teodora Ana Mihai, Kavich Neang
March 1, 2018 - July 15, 2018	César Augusto Acevedo, Chia-Hsin Liu, Min Bahadur Bham, Santiago Lozano, Sara Kern, Mariam (Bakacho) Khatchvan
October 1, 2018 - February 15, 2019	Machérie Ekwa, Elena Lopez Riera, Marian Mathias, George Sikarulidze, Carla Simón, Tommaso Usberti
March 1, 2019 - July 15, 2019	Aboozar Amini, Alvaro Aponte-Centeno, Diego Céspedes, Alireza Ghasemi, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Vinko Tomicic
October 1, 2019–February 15, 2020		Wei Liang Chiang, Zi Gao, Urška Djukić, Rhys Jones, Raven Johnson, and Payal Kapadia
February 2–July 11, 2020		Guillermo Galoe, Samuel Ishimwe, Rodrigo Barriuso, Bernhard Wenger, Hana Jušić, and Miki Polonski
October 1, 2020–February 15, 2021		Thessa Meijer, Orkhan Aghazadeh, Saleh Kashefi, Rafael Mendoza, Henning Beckhoff, and Erenik Beqiri
February 27–July 11, 2021		Inbar Horesh, David Vicente, Azadi Behzad, Lucia Aleñar Iglesias, Marta Hernaiz Pidal, and Sameh Alaa
October 1, 2021–February 15, 2022		Sabine Ehrl, Borbála Nagy, Judita Gamulin, Juan Cáceres, Maung Sun, and Rongfei Guo
March 1–July 15, 2022		Arvin Belarmino, Dina Duma, Andrei Epure, Resek Katarina, Flurin Giger, and Laura Wandel
March 1–July 15, 2023		Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Diana Mashanova, Laura Samani, Yi Tang, Morad Mostafa, and Mohammadreza Mayghani
October 1, 2023–February 15, 2024		Asmae El Moudir, Meltse Van Coillie, Andrea Slavicek, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Hao Zhao, and Gessica Généus
March 15–July 31, 2024		Danech San, Molly Manning Walker, Aditya Ahmad, Ernst de Geer, Daria Kashcheeva, and Anastasiia Solonevych
October 1, 2024 – February 15, 2025		Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard, Sofia Alaoui, Anastasia Veber, Diwa Shah, Eglė Razumaitė, and Theo Montoya
March 15, 2025 - July 31, 2025		Flóra Anna Buda, Andrea Gatopoulos, Xiwen Cong, Simon Maria Kubiena, Constance Tsang and Rodrigo Ribeyro
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The Atelier

In 2005 the Festival asked the Cinéfondation to develop the Atelier () with the aim of putting young filmmakers in touch with industry professionals. Each year the programme helps around twenty filmmakers gain international financing, meet producers, distributors and take part in the everyday life of the Festival.

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