# Cinéfondation

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 (French: La Sélection) 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

| Year | Film | Director | Nationality of director | Award |
| 1998 | Jakub | Adam Guzinski | Poland | Premier Prix |
| 1998 | The Sheep Thief | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom | Deuxième Prix |
| 1998 | Mangwana | Manu Kurewa | Zimbabwe | Troisième Prix |
| 1999 | Second Hand | Emily Young | United Kingdom | Premier Prix |
| 1999 | La Puce | Emmanuelle Bercot | France | Deuxième Prix |
| 1999 | Im Hukim | Dover Kosashvili | Georgia - Israel | Deuxième Prix |
| 1999 | En God Dag at Go | Bo Hagen Clausen | Denmark | Troisième Prix |
| 1999 | Inter-View | Jessica Hausner | Austria | Mention Spéciale |
| 2000 | Five Feet High and Rising | Peter Sollett | United States | Premier Prix |
| 2000 | Kiss it up to God | Caran Hartsfield | United States | Deuxième Prix |
| 2000 | Kinu'Ach | Amit Sakomski | Israel | Deuxième Prix |
| 2000 | Indien | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Denmark | Troisième Prix |
| 2000 | Cuoc Xe-Dem | Bui Thac Chuyên | Vietnam | Troisième Prix |
| 2001 | Portrait | Sergei Luchishin | Russia | Premier Prix |
| 2001 | Reparation | Jens Jonsson | Sweden | Deuxième Prix |
| 2001 | Dai Bi | Yang Chao | China | Troisième Prix |
| 2001 | Crow Stone | Alicia Duffy | United Kingdom | Troisième Prix |
| 2002 | Um Sol Alaranjado | Eduardo Valente | Brazil | Premier Prix |
| 2002 | Seule Maman a les Yeux Bleus | Eric Forestier | France | Deuxième Prix |
| 2002 | K-G i Nod Och Lust | Jens Jonsson | Sweden | Deuxième Prix |
| 2002 | She'elot Shel Po'el Met | Aya Somech | Israel | Troisième Prix |
| 2003 | Bezi Zeko Bezi | Pavle Vuckovic | Serbia | Premier Prix |
| 2003 | Historia del Desierto | Celia Galán Julve | Spain | Deuxième Prix |
| 2003 | TV City | Alberto Couceiro and Alejandra Tomei | Argentina | Troisième Prix |
| 2003 | Rebeca a esas Alturas | Luciana Jauffred Gorostiza | Mexico | Troisième Prix |
| 2004 | Happy Now | Frederikke Aspöck | Denmark | Premier Prix |
| 2004 | Calatorie la Oras | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania | Deuxième Prix |
| 2004 | 99 Vuotta Elämästäni | Marja Mikkonen | Finland | Deuxième Prix |
| 2004 | Fajnie, że jesteś | Jan Komasa | Poland | Troisième Prix |
| 2005 | Buy It Now | Antonio Campos | Brazil, United States | Premier Prix |
| 2005 | Vdvoyom | Nikolay Khomeriki | Russia | Deuxième Prix |
| 2005 | Bikur Holim | Maya Dreifuss | Israel | Deuxième Prix |
| 2005 | La Plaine | Roland Edzard | Germany, France | Troisième Prix |
| 2005 | Be Quiet | Sameh Zoabi | Palestine | Troisième Prix |
| 2006 | Ge & Zeta | Gustavo Riet | Uruguay | Premier Prix |
| 2006 | Mr. Schartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker | Stefan Mueller | Germany | Deuxième Prix |
| 2006 | Mother | Sian Heder | United States | Troisième Prix |
| 2006 | A Virus | Ágnes Kocsis | Hungary | Troisième Prix |
| 2007 | Ahora Todos Parecen Contentos | Gonzalo Tobal | Argentina | Premier Prix |
| 2007 | Ru Dao | Chen Tao | China | Deuxième Prix |
| 2007 | A Reunion | Hong Sung-Hoon | South Korea | Troisième Prix |
| 2007 | Minus | Pavle Vuckovic | Serbia | Troisième Prix |
| 2008 | Hymnon | Elad Keidan | Israel | Premier Prix |
| 2008 | Forbach | Claire Burger | France | Deuxième Prix |
| 2008 | Stop | Park Jae-Ok | South Korea | Troisième Prix |
| 2008 | Roadmarkers | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland | Troisième Prix |
| 2009 | Bába | Zuzana Kirchnerová | Czech Republic | Premier Prix |
| 2009 | Goodbye | Fang Song | China | Deuxième Prix |
| 2009 | Diploma | Yaelle Kayam | Israel | Troisième Prix |
| 2009 | Nammae Ui Jip | Jo Sung-hee | South Korea | Troisième Prix |
| 2010 | Taulukauppiaat | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland | Premier Prix |
| 2010 | Coucou-les-Nouages | Vincent Cardona | France | Deuxième Prix |
| 2010 | The Fifth Column | Vatche Boulghourjian | Lebanon | Troisième Prix |
| 2010 | Ja Vec Jesam Sve Ono Sto Zelim da Imam | Dane Komljen | Serbia | Troisième Prix |
| 2011 | Der Brief | Doroteya Droumeva | Bulgaria | Premier Prix |
| 2011 | Drari | Kamal Lazraq | Morocco | Deuxième Prix |
| 2011 | Ya-gan-bi-hang | Son Tae-Gyum | South Korea | Troisième Prix |
| 2012 | Doroga na | Taisia Igumentseva | Russia | Premier Prix |
| 2012 | Abigail | Matthew James Reilly | United States | Deuxième Prix |
| 2012 | Los Anfitriones | Son Tae-Gyum | Cuba | Troisième Prix |
| 2013 | Needle | Anahita Ghazvinizadeh | United States | Premier Prix |
| 2013 | Waiting for the Thaw | Sarah Hirtt | Belgium | Deuxième Prix |
| 2013 | În Acvariu | Tudor Cristian Jurgiu | Romania | Troisième Prix |
| 2013 | Pandy | Matúš Vizár | Slovakia | Troisième Prix |
| 2014 | Skunk | Annie Silverstein | United States | Premier Prix |
| 2014 | Oh Lucy! | Atsuko Hirayanagi | Japan - Singapore | Deuxième Prix |
| 2014 | Sourdough | Fulvio Risuleo | Italy | Troisième Prix |
| 2014 | The Bigger Picture | Daisy Jacobs | United Kingdom | Troisième Prix |
| 2015 | Share | Pippa Bianco | United States | Premier Prix |
| 2015 | Lost Queens | Ignacio Juricic Merillán | Chile | Deuxième Prix |
| 2015 | The Return of Erkin | Maria Guskova | Russia | Troisième Prix |
| 2015 | Victor XX | Ian Garrido López | Spain | Troisième Prix |
| 2016 | Anna | Or Sinai | Israel | Premier Prix |
| 2016 | In the Hills | Hamid Ahmadi | United Kingdom | Deuxième Prix |
| 2016 | The Noise of Licking | Nadja Andrasev | Hungary | Troisième Prix |
| 2017 | Paul is Here | Valentina Maurel | Belgium | Premier Prix |
| 2017 | Animal | Bahman and Bahram Ark | Iran | Deuxième Prix |
| 2017 | Deux Égarés Sont Morts | Tommaso Usberti | France | Troisième Prix |
| 2018 | The Summer of the Electric Lion | Diego Céspedes | Chile | Premier Prix |
| 2018 | Calendar | Igor Poplauhin | Russia | Deuxième Prix |
| 2018 | The Storms in Our Blood | Shen Di | China | Deuxième Prix |
| 2018 | Inanimate | Lucia Bulgheroni | United Kingdom | Troisième Prix |
| 2019 | Mano a mano | Louise Courvoisier | France | Premier Prix |
| 2019 | Hiêu | Richard Van | United States | Deuxième Prix |
| 2019 | Ambience | Wisam Al Jafari | Palestine | Troisième Prix |
| 2019 | The Little Soul | Barbara Rupik | Poland | Troisième Prix |
| 2020 | Catdog | Ashmita Guha Neogi | India | Premier Prix |
| 2020 | My Fat Arse and I | Yelyzaveta Pysmak | Poland, Ukraine | Deuxième Prix |
| 2020 | Contraindications | Lucia Chicos | Romania | Troisième Prix |
| 2020 | I Want to Return Return Return | Elsa Rosengren | Germany | Troisième Prix |
| 2021 | The Salamander Child | Théo Degen | Belgium | Premier Prix |
| 2021 | Cicada | Yoon Daewoen | South Korea | Deuxième Prix |
| 2021 | Love Stories on the Move | Carina-Gabriela Daşoveanu | Romania | Troisième Prix |
| 2021 | Cantareira | Rodrigo Ribeyro | Brazil | Troisième Prix |
| 2022 | A Conspiracy Man | Valerio Ferrara | Italy | Premier Prix |
| 2022 | Somewhere | Li Jiahe | China | Deuxième Prix |
| 2022 | Glorious Revolution | Masha Novikova | United Kingdom | Troisième Prix |
| 2022 | Humans Are Dumber When Crammed up Together | Laurène Fernandez | France | Troisième Prix |
| 2023 | Norwegian Offspring | Marlene Emilie Lyngstad | Denmark | Premier Prix |
| 2023 | Hole | Hwang Hyein | South Korea | Deuxième Prix |
| 2023 | Moon | Zineb Wakrim | Morocco | Troisième Prix |
| 2024 | Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know... | Chidananda S Naik | India | Premier Prix |
| 2024 | Out of the Window Through the Wall | Asya Segalovich | United States | Deuxième Prix |
| 2024 | The Chaos She Left Behind | Nikos Kolioukos | Greece | Deuxième Prix |
| 2024 | Bunnyhood | Mansi Maheshwari | United Kingdom | Troisième Prix |

## The Residence

The Residence du Festival (French: La Résidence) 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.
| Session number | Dates conducted | President of the jury | Participants |
| 1st | October 16, 2000 - February 24, 2001 | Olivier Assayas | Caran Hartsfield, Marcell Ivanyi, Hanna Miettinen, Peter Sollett, Rachel Tillotson, Emily Young |
| 2nd | March 1, 2001 - July 15, 2001 | Olivier Assayas | Laurie Collyer, Maximiliano Lemcke Gonzalez, Iwona Siekierzynska, Ilgon Song, Djamshed Usmonov, Ken Yunome |
| 3rd | October 1, 2001 - February 13, 2002 | Pascale Ferran | Newton Aduaka, Piotr Kielar, Lucrecia Martel, Michel Ange Quay, Aleksi Salmenperä, Nariman Turebayev |
| 4th | February 21, 2002 - June 30, 2002 | Costa-Gavras | Alicia Duffy, Jens Jonsson, Emmanuel Kurewa, Sergeï Luchishin, Franco De Peña, Heng Tang |
| 5th | October 1, 2002 - February 12, 2003 | André Delvaux | Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Edgar Bartenev, Anastas Charalampidis, Marc Hartmann, Diego Lerman, John Shank |
| 6th | February 27, 2003 - July 11, 2003 | Francis Girod | Brahim Fritah, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Santiago Loza, Cath Le Couteur, Jinoh Park, Ulises Rosell, Dong-Il Shin |
| 7th | October 1, 2003 - February 11, 2004 | Claire Denis | Veronica Chen, Kornel Mundruczó, Stephen Ellis, Karim Aïnouz, Marta Parlatore, Jacob Tschernia, Kirsi Marie Liimatainen |
| 8th | February 27, 2004 - July 10, 2004 | Arnaud Desplechin | Hadar Friedlich, Céline Macherel, Vladimir Perisic, Jaime Rosales, Dorothée Van Den Berghe, Wang Bing |
| 9th | October 1, 2004 - February 12, 2005 | Marion Vernoux | Tawfik Abu Wael, Celia Galan Julve, Brendan Grant, Nadine Labaki, Josué Méndez, Slava Ross |
| 10th | February 28, 2005 - July 10, 2005 | Santiago Amigorena | Hernán Belón, Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, Noam Kaplan, Jeffrey St. Jules, Corneliu Porumboiu, Eduardo Valente |
| 11th | October 3, 2005 - February 12, 2006 | Christine Laurent | Kim Hee-Jung, Raya Martin, Sameh Zoabi, Ben Hackworth, Santiago Palavecino, Mark Walker |
| 12th | February 28, 2006 - July 10, 2006 | Bruno Dumont | Pablo Agüero, Amat Escalante, Kit Hui, Abay Kulbayev, Marianela Maldonado, Lucía Puenzo |
| 13th | October 2, 2006 - February 9, 2007 | Rithy Panh | Antonio Campos, Natacha Feola, Babak Jalali, Sebastian Lelio, Alexis Dos Santos, Fien Troch |
| 14th | March 1, 2007 - July 17, 2007 | Laurent Cantet | Rusudan Chkonia, Pelin Esmer, Mitra Farahani, Tan Chui Mui, Nadav Lapid, Milagros Mumenthaler |
| 15th | October 1, 2007 - February 15, 2008 | Sébastien Lifshitz | Emilie Atef, Hagar Ben Asher, Barney Elliott, Xiaolu Guo, Rubén Imaz Castro, Pia Marais |
| 16th | March 3, 2008 - July 15, 2008 | Gilles Jacob | Nikias Chryssos, Rebecca Daly, Manuel Nieto Zas, Adrian Sitaru, Francisco Vargas Quevedo, Yang Heng |
| 17th | October 1, 2008 - February 15, 2009 | Gilles Jacob | Babak Amini, Anna Faur, Aaron Fernandez, Alejandro Landes, Liew Seng Tat, Robin Weng |
| 18th | March 2, 2009 - July 15, 2009 | Gilles Jacob | Andreas Bolm, Julio Hernández Cordón, Yula Gidron, Rafael Kapelinski, Esteban Larrain, Martin Turk |
| 19th | October 1, 2009 - February 15, 2010 | Gilles Jacob | Paz Fabrega, Oliver Hermanus, Bani Khoshnoudi, Andrew Legge, Ioana Uricaru, Zhang Yue |
| 20th | March 1, 2010 - July 15, 2010 | Gilles Jacob | Daniel Joseph Borgman, Michel Franco, Cristián Jiménez, Yaelle Kayam, Franco Lolli, Dominga Sotomayor |
| 21st | October 1, 2010 - February 15, 2011 | Gilles Jacob | Chika Anadu, Fernando Guzzoni, Ronin Hsu, Rubén Mendoza, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Shahrabanoo Sadat |
| 22nd | March 1, 2011 - July 15, 2011 | Gilles Jacob | Sivaroj Kongsakul, Julia Kozyreva, David Nawrath, Laszlo Nemes, Pramote Sangsorn, Bohdana Smyrnova |
| 23rd | October 3, 2011 - February 15, 2012 | Gilles Jacob | Marí Alessandrini, René Ballesteros, Etienne Kallos, Mariko Saga, Christopher Murray, Felipe Sholl |
| 24th | March 1, 2012 - July 15, 2012 | Gilles Jacob | Jairo Boisier Olave, Alireza Khatami, Juliana Rojas, Jéro Yun, Pasquale Marino, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau |
| 25th | October 1, 2012 - February 15, 2013 | Gilles Jacob | Kamila Andini, Laura Astorga, Aygul Bakanova, Marina Meliande, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Jordan Schiele |
| 26th | March 1, 2013 - July 15, 2013 | Gilles Jacob | Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Rungano Nyoni, Adrián Saba, William Vega, Géraldine Zosso |
| 27th | October 1, 2013 - February 15, 2014 | Gilles Jacob | Giacomo Abbruzzese, Natalia Almada, Panayotis Christopoulos, Susan Gordanshekan, Hicham Lasri, Ma'ayan Rypp |
| 28th | March 3, 2014 - July 15, 2014 | Gilles Jacob | Caetano Gotardo, Gudmundur Gudmudsson, Sam Holst, Marcelo Martinessi, Marcela Saïd, Katarina Stankovic |
| 29th | October 1, 2014 - February 15, 2015 | Gilles Jacob | Alejandro Fadel, Damian John Harper, Hannaleena Hauru, Karim Moussaoui, Ruthy Pribar, Flora Lau |
| 30th | March 2, 2015 - July 15, 2015 | Gilles Jacob | Khadar Ahmed, Jonas Carpignano, Una Gunjak, Serhat Karaaslan, Gábor Reisz, Ernesto Villalobos |
| 31st | October 1, 2015 - February 15, 2016 | Gilles Jacob | Duccio Chiarini, Maya Da-Rin, Georgis Grigorakis, Zhou Hao, Déa Kulumbegashvili, Sebastián Schjaer |
| 32nd | March 1, 2016 - July 15, 2016 | Gilles Jacob | Ali Asgari, Nuno Baltazar, Federico Cecchetti, Omar El Zohairy, Gregorio Graziosi, Ivan Ikić |
| 33rd | October 3, 2016 - February 15, 2017 | Gilles Jacob | Lukas Dhont, Cenk Erturk, Takeshi Fukunaga, Zeno Graton, Caroline Monnet, Mees Peijnenburg |
| 34th | March 1, 2017 - July 15, 2017 | Gilles Jacob | Rati Tsiteladze, João Paulo Miranda Maria, JQIU Yang, Myrsini Aristidou, Carlo Sironi, Anwar Boulifa |
| 35th | October 2, 2017 - February 15, 2018 | Gilles Jacob | Mounia Akl, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Sharon Angelhart, Juan Sebastian Mesa, Teodora Ana Mihai, Kavich Neang |
| 36th | March 1, 2018 - July 15, 2018 | Gilles Jacob | César Augusto Acevedo, Chia-Hsin Liu, Min Bahadur Bham, Santiago Lozano, Sara Kern, Mariam (Bakacho) Khatchvan |
| 37th | October 1, 2018 - February 15, 2019 | Gilles Jacob | Machérie Ekwa, Elena Lopez Riera, Marian Mathias, George Sikarulidze, Carla Simon, Tommaso Usberti |
| 38th | March 1, 2019 - July 15, 2019 | Gilles Jacob | Aboozar Amini, Alvaro Aponte-Centeno, Diego Céspedes, Alireza Ghasemi, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Vinko Tomicic |

## The Atelier

In 2005 the Festival asked the Cinéfondation to develop the Atelier (French: L'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.