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 and 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

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.
Session numberDates conductedPresident of the juryParticipants
1stOctober 16, 2000 - February 24, 2001Olivier AssayasCaran Hartsfield, Marcell Ivanyi, Hanna Miettinen, Peter Sollett, Rachel Tillotson, Emily Young
2ndMarch 1, 2001 - July 15, 2001Olivier AssayasLaurie Collyer, Maximiliano Lemcke Gonzalez, Iwona Siekierzynska, Ilgon Song, Djamshed Usmonov, Ken Yunome
3rdOctober 1, 2001 - February 13, 2002Pascale FerranNewton Aduaka, Piotr Kielar, Lucrecia Martel, Michel Ange Quay, Aleksi Salmenperä, Nariman Turebayev
4thFebruary 21, 2002 - June 30, 2002Costa-GavrasAlicia Duffy, Jens Jonsson, Emmanuel Kurewa, Sergeï Luchishin, Franco De Peña, Heng Tang
5thOctober 1, 2002 - February 12, 2003André DelvauxEwa Banaszkiewicz, Edgar Bartenev, Anastas Charalampidis, Marc Hartmann, Diego Lerman, John Shank
6thFebruary 27, 2003 - July 11, 2003Francis GirodBrahim Fritah, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Santiago Loza, Cath Le Couteur, Jinoh Park, Ulises Rosell, Dong-Il Shin
7thOctober 1, 2003 - February 11, 2004Claire DenisVeronica Chen, Kornel Mundruczó, Stephen Ellis, Karim Aïnouz, Marta Parlatore, Jacob Tschernia, Kirsi Marie Liimatainen
8thFebruary 27, 2004 - July 10, 2004Arnaud DesplechinHadar Friedlich, Céline Macherel, Vladimir Perisic, Jaime Rosales, Dorothée Van Den Berghe, Wang Bing
9thOctober 1, 2004 - February 12, 2005Marion VernouxTawfik Abu Wael, Celia Galan Julve, Brendan Grant, Nadine Labaki, Josué Méndez, Slava Ross
10thFebruary 28, 2005 - July 10, 2005Santiago AmigorenaHernán Belón, Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, Noam Kaplan, Jeffrey St. Jules, Corneliu Porumboiu, Eduardo Valente
11thOctober 3, 2005 - February 12, 2006Christine LaurentKim Hee-Jung, Raya Martin, Sameh Zoabi, Ben Hackworth, Santiago Palavecino, Mark Walker
12thFebruary 28, 2006 - July 10, 2006Bruno DumontPablo Agüero, Amat Escalante, Kit Hui, Abay Kulbayev, Marianela Maldonado, Lucía Puenzo
13thOctober 2, 2006 - February 9, 2007Rithy PanhAntonio Campos, Natacha Feola, Babak Jalali, Sebastian Lelio, Alexis Dos Santos, Fien Troch
14thMarch 1, 2007 - July 17, 2007Laurent CantetRusudan Chkonia, Pelin Esmer, Mitra Farahani, Tan Chui Mui, Nadav Lapid, Milagros Mumenthaler
15thOctober 1, 2007 - February 15, 2008Sébastien LifshitzEmilie Atef, Hagar Ben Asher, Barney Elliott, Xiaolu Guo, Rubén Imaz Castro, Pia Marais
16thMarch 3, 2008 - July 15, 2008Gilles JacobNikias Chryssos, Rebecca Daly, Manuel Nieto Zas, Adrian Sitaru, Francisco Vargas Quevedo, Yang Heng
17thOctober 1, 2008 - February 15, 2009Gilles JacobBabak Amini, Anna Faur, Aaron Fernandez, Alejandro Landes, Liew Seng Tat, Robin Weng
18thMarch 2, 2009 - July 15, 2009Gilles JacobAndreas Bolm, Julio Hernández Cordón, Yula Gidron, Rafael Kapelinski, Esteban Larrain, Martin Turk
19thOctober 1, 2009 - February 15, 2010Gilles JacobPaz Fabrega, Oliver Hermanus, Bani Khoshnoudi, Andrew Legge, Ioana Uricaru, Zhang Yue
20thMarch 1, 2010 - July 15, 2010Gilles JacobDaniel Joseph Borgman, Michel Franco, Cristián Jiménez, Yaelle Kayam, Franco Lolli, Dominga Sotomayor
21stOctober 1, 2010 - February 15, 2011Gilles JacobChika Anadu, Fernando Guzzoni, Ronin Hsu, Rubén Mendoza, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Shahrabanoo Sadat
22ndMarch 1, 2011 - July 15, 2011Gilles JacobSivaroj Kongsakul, Julia Kozyreva, David Nawrath, Laszlo Nemes, Pramote Sangsorn, Bohdana Smyrnova
23rdOctober 3, 2011 - February 15, 2012Gilles JacobMarí Alessandrini, René Ballesteros, Etienne Kallos, Mariko Saga, Christopher Murray, Felipe Sholl
24thMarch 1, 2012 - July 15, 2012Gilles JacobJairo Boisier Olave, Alireza Khatami, Juliana Rojas, Jéro Yun, Pasquale Marino, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau
25thOctober 1, 2012 - February 15, 2013Gilles JacobKamila Andini, Laura Astorga, Aygul Bakanova, Marina Meliande, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Jordan Schiele
26thMarch 1, 2013 - July 15, 2013Gilles JacobFyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Rungano Nyoni, Adrián Saba, William Vega, Géraldine Zosso
27thOctober 1, 2013 - February 15, 2014Gilles JacobGiacomo Abbruzzese, Natalia Almada, Panayotis Christopoulos, Susan Gordanshekan, Hicham Lasri, Ma'ayan Rypp
28thMarch 3, 2014 - July 15, 2014Gilles JacobCaetano Gotardo, Gudmundur Gudmudsson, Sam Holst, Marcelo Martinessi, Marcela Saïd, Katarina Stankovic
29thOctober 1, 2014 - February 15, 2015Gilles JacobAlejandro Fadel, Damian John Harper, Hannaleena Hauru, Karim Moussaoui, Ruthy Pribar, Flora Lau
30thMarch 2, 2015 - July 15, 2015Gilles JacobKhadar Ahmed, Jonas Carpignano, Una Gunjak, Serhat Karaaslan, Gábor Reisz, Ernesto Villalobos
31stOctober 1, 2015 - February 15, 2016Gilles JacobDuccio Chiarini, Maya Da-Rin, Georgis Grigorakis, Zhou Hao, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Sebastián Schjaer
32ndMarch 1, 2016 - July 15, 2016Gilles JacobAli Asgari, Nuno Baltazar, Federico Cecchetti, Omar El Zohairy, Gregorio Graziosi, Ivan Ikić
33rdOctober 3, 2016 - February 15, 2017Gilles JacobLukas Dhont, Cenk Erturk, Takeshi Fukunaga, Zeno Graton, Caroline Monnet, Mees Peijnenburg
34thMarch 1, 2017 - July 15, 2017Gilles JacobRati Tsiteladze, João Paulo Miranda Maria, JQIU Yang, Myrsini Aristidou, Carlo Sironi, Anwar Boulifa
35thOctober 2, 2017 - February 15, 2018Gilles JacobMounia Akl, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Sharon Angelhart, Juan Sebastian Mesa, Teodora Ana Mihai, Kavich Neang
36thMarch 1, 2018 - July 15, 2018Gilles JacobMounia Akl, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Sharon Angelhart, Juan Sebastian Mesa, Teodora Ana Mihai, Kavich Neang
37thOctober 1, 2018 - February 15, 2019Gilles JacobMachérie Ekwa, Elena Lopez Riera, Marian Mathias, George Sikarulidze, Carla Simon and Tommaso Usberti
38thMarch 1, 2019 - July 15, 2019Gilles JacobAboozar Amini, Alvaro Aponte-Centeno, Diego Céspedes, Alireza Ghasemi,  Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk et Vinko Tomicic

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.