Michael Gandolfini Short ‘Tea’ Heads To Cannes Short Film Competition

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the eleven titles selected for the Short Film Competition of its 77th edition running from May 14 to 25.

Works in the running include U.S. director Blake Rice’s drama Tea starring Michael Gandolfini (Beau Is Afraid) as a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee, who gets stung in the throat by a hornet, while rehearsing to ask the girl of his dreams of out on a date.

Other contenders include French two french animated works: Éric Briche’s Volcelest, about a hungry ermine on a mission to raid a chicken coop for food, and Raphaël Jouzeau’s Les Belles Cicatrices, about a broken couple reunion which takes a difficult turn.

This year’s jury will be presided over by Belgian director Lubna Azabal, flanked by director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, programmer and ex-Directors Fortnight head Paolo Moretti, producer Claudine Nougaret and director Vladimir Perišić.

They will award the Short Film Palme d’Or and three prizes for the La Cinef selection, dedicated to student films.

“The Festival de Cannes is one of those paths we dream of crossing. The focus on young filmmakers presenting their short films, and the paths they have taken to get there, honor me. I can’t wait to discover the richness of it all,” said Azabal. 

2024 Cannes Short Film Competition Selection

VOLCELEST

Éric Briche

France – 15′

OOTIDĖ

(Ootid)

Razumaitė Eglė

Lithuania – 9′

SANKI YOXSAN

Azer Guliev

Azerbaijan, France – 15′

LES BELLES CICATRICES

Raphaël Jouzeau

France – 15′

RRUGËS

(On The Way)

Samir Karahoda

Kosovo – 15′

ACROSS THE WATERS

Viv Li

China – 15′

PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS

Alison McAlpine

Canada – 15′

TEA

Blake Rice

United States – 12′

AMARELA

(Yellow)

André Hayato Saito

Brazil – 15′

THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT

Nebojša Slijepčević

Croatia, France – 13′

BAD FOR A MOMENT

(Mau Por Um Momento)

Daniel Soares

Portugal – 15′