EDITION 2020
874 shorts submitted
65 countries
48 shorts selected
25 shorts screened
16 awards
GRAND PRIX SPECIAL « Construction Navale Bordeaux »
Mermaid - Saber Mostafapour
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SPECIAL MENTION « Bordeaux Shorts Espoir »
The place of happiness - Aliosha Massine
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BEST FILM MINUTE
Wake up - Tiago Teixeira
BEST FILM MINUTE EXPERIMENTAL
Your Game is over - Valerie Flores
BEST FILM MINUTE ANIMATION
Momentum - Tinne Kieckens
BEST FILM MINUTE DOCUMENTARY
Waves and Seas - Benjamin Cabrit
BEST FILM MINUTE FICTION
Fiction Wake up - Tiago Teixeira
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BEST VERY SHORT FILM
Water - Cesar Diaz Melendez
BEST VERY SHORT FILM EXPERIMENTAL
Till Death Do us Part - Maria Luiza Munhoz
BEST VERY SHORT FILM ANIMATION
Water - Cesar Diaz Melendez
BEST VERY SHORT FILM DOCUMENTARY
Belgium Wilderness - Sébastien Pins
BEST VERY SHORT FILM FICTION
Fiction I am Malika - Laurine Bauby
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BEST SHORT FILM
Pipo and Blind Love - Hugo Le Gourrierec
BEST SHORT FILM EXPERIMENTAL
Bedside - Ehsan Shadmani
BEST SHORT FILM ANIMATION
Roses in the Night - Pencho Kunchev
BEST SHORT FILM DOCUMENTARY
Running Free - Owen Cant
BEST SHORT FILM FICTION
Pipo and Blind Love - Hugo Le Gourrierec
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PUBLIC AWARD BEST FILM MINUTE
Your Game is over - Valerie Flores
PUBLIC AWARD BEST VERY SHORT FILM
I am Malika - Laurine Bauby
PUBLIC AWARD BEST SHORT FILM
Pipo and Blind Love - Hugo Le Gourrierec
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Spanish, Israeli, Iranian, Belgian, Italian, French, Brazilian, English, American, Greek, Bulgarian and Canadian short films!
FILM MINUTE
FICTION
Maybe Tomorrow Nicolas Khamsopha
Wake Up Tiago Teixeira
ANIMATION
Momentum Tinne Kieckens
Teddy Bear Hermes Mangialardo
EXPERIMENTAL
Up and Down Yossi Galanti
Your game is over Valerie Flores
DOCUMENTARY
Crisis Cesare Maglioni
Waves and Seas Benjamin Cabrit
VERY SHORT FILM
FICTION
What if Francois Albaranes
I am Malika Laurine Bauby
ANIMATION
Enemy Michelle Cheng
Water Cesar Diaz Melendez
EXPERIMENTAL
Plastic Flowers Υannis Zafiris
Till Death Do Us Part Maria Luiza Munhoz
DOCUMENTARY
Belgium Wilderness Sébastien Pins
Faces without Visage Hesam Rahmani
VERY SHORT
FICTION
The place of happiness Aliosha Massine
Pipo and Blind Love Hugo Le Gourrierec
Mermaid Saber Mostafapour
ANIMATION
Roses in the Night Pencho Kunchev
Embraced Justine Vuylsteker
EXPERIMENTAL
Gloom // Bloom Etienne Perrone
Beside Ehsan Shadmani
DOCUMENTARY
Yah Wave Emma Power
Running Free Owen Cant
Ziad Kalthoum
Ziad Kalthoum is a Syrian filmmaker currently living in Berlin. He was born in Homs in 1981 and holds a degree in film studies. In first documentary OH MY HEART (2009) he portrayed a group of Kurdish women, who have chosen to live in a society without men. The film was banned from screening in Syria due to political reasons. In 2012, during the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, he began working on his first feature film THE IMMORTAL SERGEANT while serving a compulsory military service. The film had its premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in 2014. In 2015, he won the BBC Arabic Festival in the ‘Best Feature Documentary’ category. Refusing to fight his own people, he deserted from the Syrian Army in 2013 and fled to Beirut where he started to work on TASTE OF CEMENT. The film has been traveling to festivals around the world and has won various awards, among them the Golden Sesterce for Best Feature Documentary at Visions du Réel in 2017.
Paula Olaz
Born in Pamplona in 1989 Paula Olaz started learning music at the age of 8, and has been since then attracted to the art of creation. Later at 19 she moved to Amsterdam, her first European life experience that has brought her to different countries such as France, Germany and Switzerland. She studied in the prestigious Berklee College of Music, from which she graduated Cum Laude from the Master in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games. Paula Olaz creates soundtracks for cinema, television, theater and videogames. Passionate about astronomy and interested in the universe’s world of sound research, in 2017 she recorded and conducted her work “Child of the Universe” based on real images of the Hubble Telescope for the European Space Agency (ESA) at the prestigious Air Studios in London. In addition, she teaches scoring for film and music technology courses in Larrotxene (San Sebastián) and collaborates in the radio programs as an expert in music and soundtracks.
Daniel Vellucci
Daniel Vellucci p.g.a. an American producer-financier for cinema arts and tourism. His integrity and creditability eases Hollywood stakeholders’ concerns before and after projects are green-lighted. Over the span of his career, Dan has had the privilege of finding value for AFI Fest, Austin Film Festival, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival (HIMPFF), Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston), Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and LA’s CineFest, New York Festivals, New York Film Festival (NYFF), Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), UCLA’s Outfest, and USC’s First Look Festival. Daniel finds the artistry in the ‘world of shorts’ fascinating and is eager to discover the next diamond for Bordeaux Shorts.
The 46 selected films submitted to our international jury:
FILM MINUTE
FICTION
Pretty Man Dimitri Castiglioni
Wake Up Tiago Teixeira
Maybe Tomorrow Nicolas Khamsopha
Pulpe Fiction Janek Tarkowski
ANIMATION
Teddy Bear Hermes Mangialardo
Big Brown's TV Slap-Down! Cable Hardin
Momentum Tinne Kieckens
Vivi Ossa Callum Walters
EXPERIMENTAL
an entombing (dis)entombing Adam E. Stone
Film Loop 34: Ryoanji Michael Lyons
Up and Down Yossi Galanti
Your game is over Valerie Flores
DOCUMENTARY
Waves and Seas Benjamin Cabrit
Crisis Cesare Maglioni
VERY SHORT FILM
FICTION
Black Blanc Beur Matthieu Ponchel & Prïncia Car
I am Malika Laurine Bauby
What if Francois Albaranes
Spoil Levente Kölcsey
ANIMATION
Offcut Petroc Menuhin
Enemy Michelle Cheng
The little gardener Aurore Peuffier
Water Cesar Diaz Melendez
EXPERIMENTAL
Plastic Flowers Υannis Zafiris
Disrupted Landscape #6 Yossi Galanti
Till Death Do Us Part Maria Luiza Munhoz
The Last Ray of Summer Lisa Fonderflick
DOCUMENTARY
Just an image Jacques Dubuisson
How OSIRIS-REx will Steer Itself to Sample an Asteroid James Tralie
Belgium Wilderness Sébastien Pins
Faces without Visage Hesam Rahmani
SHORT FILM
FICTION
The place of happiness Aliosha Massine
Mermaid Saber Mostafapour
Pipo and Blind Love Hugo Le Gourrierec
The Empire's Surgeon Guillaume Main
ANIMATION
The wayfarer Behrouz Soleimaninazir
Embraced Justine Vuylsteker
The Butterfly Cage Hélèna Serra
Roses in the Night Pencho Kunchev
EXPERIMENTAL
Topiaskop Josephin Boettger
Ophelia Hadi Moussally
Gloom // Bloom Etienne Perrone
Beside Ehsan Shadmani
DOCUMENTARY
Running Free Owen Cant
Dukkha Elisavet Pirounia
The road of the weather Afroditi Tavri
Yah Wave Emma Power
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