Blake Rice’s Hornet Sting Drama ‘Tea’ With Michael Gandolfini 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 out on a date.
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Olivia Nikkanen, Matt Van Orden and Zina Louhaichy also feature in the cast.
Other contenders include 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′
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