Cannes: ‘Toni Erdmann’ Director Maren Ade Heads up Short Film Jury

German director, writer and producer Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann, Everyone Else) will preside over this year’s Cannes short film competition jury, as well as the jury for the La Cinef lineup of student films.

Joining Ade on jury duty are King Richard director Reinaldo Marcus Green, French singer-songwriter Camélia Jordana, Croatian writer-director Nebojša Slijepčević (The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent), and José María Prado, the former director of Filmoteca Española. Together they will award the Short Film Palme d’Or and the three La Cinef prizes.

Cannes on Friday announced the 11 short films and 16 La Cinef student works picked for its 2025 selection. The festival said more than 4,700 shorts were submitted this year.

Ade will hand out the short film Palme d’Or on Saturday, May 24 at the closing ceremony for the 78th Cannes film festival.

The full short film lineup is below:

Short Films Competition
Agapito, dirs. Arvin Belarmino, Kyla Danelle Romero
Ali, dir. Adnan Al Rajeev
Arguments in Favor of Love, dir. Gabriel Abrantes
Dammen, dir. Grégoire Graesslin
Fille de l’eau, dir. Sandra Desmazières
Hypersensitive, dir. Martine Froissard
I’m Glad You’re Dead Now, dir. Tawfeek Barhom
Lili, dirs. Zhaoguang Luo, Shuhan Liao
The Loneliness of Lizards, dir. Inês Nunes
The Spectacle, dir. Bálint Kenyères
Vultures, dir. Dian Weys

La Cinef Selection
12 Moments Before the Flag-Raising Ceremony, dir. Qu Zhizheng
Bimo, dir. Oumnia Hanader
Ether, dir. Vida Skerk
First Summer, dir. Heo Gayoung
Ginger Boy (Separated), dir. Miki Tanaka
Maybe in March, dir. Mikkel Bjorn Kehlert
Milk and Cookies, dir. Andrei Tache-Codreanu
My Grandmother Is a Skydiver, dir. Polina Piddubna
Talk Me, dir. Joecar Hanna
The Bird From Within, dir. Laura Anahory
The Land of Slumber, dir. Jules Vésigot-Wahl
The Lightning Rod, dir. Helmi Donner
The Sorceress Echo, dir. Marc Camardons
Three, dir. Juan Ignacio Ceballos
Winter in March, dir. Natalia Mirzoyan
A Doll Made Up of Clay, dir. Kokob Gebrehawaria Tesfay